Delaiah Freed by Jehovah. (1.) The head of the twenty-third division of the priestly order (1 Chronicles 24:18). (2.) A son of Shemaiah, and one of the courtiers to whom Jeremiah's first roll of prophecy was read (Jeremiah 36:12). (3.) The head of one of the bands of exiles that returned under Zerubbabel to Jerusalem (Ezra 2:60; Nehemiah 7:62). Easton's Bible Dictionary