Adaiah
(adorned by Jehovah). + Maternal grandfather of King Josiah, and native of Boscath in the lowlands of Judah. (2 Kings 22:1) (B.C. 648.) + A Levite of the Gershonite branch, and ancestor of Asaph. (1 Chronicles 6:41) In v. (1 Chronicles 6:21) Heb Isa called [47]Iddo. + A Benjamite, son of Shimhi, (1 Chronicles 8:21) who is apparently the same as Shema in v. (1 Chronicles 8:13) + A priest, son of Jehoram. (1 Chronicles 9:12; Nehemiah 11:12) + Ancestor of Maaseiah, one of the captains who supported Jehoiada. (2 Chronicles 23:1) + One of the descendants of Bani, who had married a foreign wife after the return from Babylon. (Ezra 10:29) (B.C. 459). + The descendant of another Bani, who had also taken a foreign wife. (Ezra 10:39) + A man of Judah, of the line of Pharez. (Nehemiah 11:5)