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2 Kings 22:1

1 Chronicles 6:21, 41

1 Chronicles 8:13, 21

1 Chronicles 9:12

2 Chronicles 23:1

Ezra 10:29, 39

Nehemiah 11:5, 12

(adorned by Jehovah)

  1. Maternal grandfather of King Josiah and native of Boscath in the lowlands of Judah (2 Kings 22:1)
  2. A Levite of the Gershonite branch and ancestor of Asaph (1 Chronicles 6:41). In 1 Chronicles 6:21 he is called Iddo.
  3. A Benjamite, son of Shimhi (1 Chronicles 8:21), who is apparently the same as Shema in 1 Chronicles 8:13
  4. A priest, son of Jehoram (1 Chronicles 9:12; Nehemiah 11:12)
  5. Ancestor of Maaseiah, one of the captains who supported Jehoiada (2 Chronicles 23:1)
  6. One of the descendants of Bani, who had married a foreign wife after the return from Babylon (Ezra 10:29)
  7. The descendant of another Bani, who had also taken a foreign wife (Ezra 10:39)
  8. A man of Judah, of the line of Pharez (Nehemiah 11:5)

Smith's Bible Names Dictionary (1866).

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