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Dictionary of Bible Themes
2 Samuel 8:17; 20:25

A secretary was a royal official often responsible for correspondence

1 Kings 4:3
2 Kings 18:18,37; 19:2; 22:12
2 Chronicles 34:13,15-18
Ezra 4:8-9,17,23
Esther 3:12; 8:9

Shaphan takes the Book of the Law to King Josiah

Jeremiah 36:10
2 Kings 12:10-12

A secretary collected the temple repair money

2 Chronicles 24:11
2 Kings 25:19

A secretary was in charge of conscripting soldiers

2 Chronicles 26:11

pp Jer 52:25

Romans 16:22

Secretaries to writers of NT letters

1 Peter 5:12

Tertius and Silas acted in the capacity of secretary, writing down what the apostles told them to:

See also

4110 angels
5266 conscription
5391 letters
5394 lordship
5440 perjury
5514 scribes
5651 ancestors
7915 confirmation
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