Easton's Bible Dictionary Whose benefactor is God, the father of Delaiah, and grandfather of Shemaiah, who joined Sanballat against Nehemiah (Nehemiah 6:10). Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia MEHETABEL; MEHETABEEL me-het'-a-bel, me-het'-a-bel (mehetah'el, "whom God makes happy"): (1) Daughter of Matred, wife of Hadad or Hadar, the 8th and apparently last of the kings of Edom (Genesis 36:39 1 Chronicles 1:50). (2) Grandfather of that Shemaiah who played a treacherous part against Nehemiah at the suggestion of Tobiah and Sanballat, by trying to persuade Nehemiah to commit sacrilege (Nehemiah 6:10-13).