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Adaiah
Ada’iah (adorned by Jehovah).
1. Maternal grandfather of King Josiah, and native of Boscath in the lowlands of Judah. 2 Kings 22:1. (b.c. 648.)
2. A Levite of the Gershonite branch, and ancestor of Asaph. 1 Chron. 6:41. In v. 21 he is called Iddo.
3. A Benjamite, son of Shimhi, 1 Chron. 8:21, who is apparently the same as Shema in v. 13.
4. A priest, son of Jehoram. 1 Chron. 9:12; Neh. 11:12.
5. Ancestor of Maaseiah, one of the captains who supported Jehoiada. 2 Chron. 23:1.
6. One of the descendants of Bani, who had married a foreign wife after the return from Babylon. Ezra 10:29 (b.c. 459.)
7. The descendant of another Bani, who had also taken a foreign wife. Ezra 1O:39.
8. A man of Judah, of the line of Pharez. Neh. 11:5.