Topic
Adaiah
11 passages cited, from 3 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- 2 Kings 22:1Smith · ISBE · Nave 1. Grandfather of Josiah
Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath.
- 1 Chronicles 6:41Smith · ISBE · Nave 2. A musician
The son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah,
- 1 Chronicles 8:21Smith · ISBE · Nave 4. A Benjamite
And Adaiah, and Beraiah, and Shimrath, the sons of Shimhi;
- 1 Chronicles 9:12Smith · ISBE · Nave 3. A priest
And Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pashur, the son of Malchijah, and Maasiai the son of Adiel, the son of Jahzerah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, the son of Immer;
- 2 Chronicles 23:1Smith · ISBE · Nave 5. Father of Maaseiah
And in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed, and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into…
- Ezra 10:29Smith · ISBE · Nave 6. Two sons of Bani
And of the sons of Bani; Meshullam, Malluch, and Adaiah, Jashub, and Sheal, and Ramoth.
- Ezra 10:39Smith · ISBE · Nave 6. Two sons of Bani
And Shelemiah, and Nathan, and Adaiah,
- Nehemiah 11:5Smith · ISBE · Nave 7. Son of Joiarib
And Maaseiah the son of Baruch, the son of Col-hozeh, the son of Hazaiah, the son of Adaiah, the son of Joiarib, the son of Zechariah, the son of Shiloni.
- Nehemiah 11:12Smith · ISBE · Nave 3. A priest
And their brethren that did the work of the house were eight hundred twenty and two: and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of Pashur, the son of Malchiah,
- 1 Chronicles 6:21Smith
Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeaterai his son.
- 1 Chronicles 8:13Smith
Beriah also, and Shema, who were heads of the fathers of the inhabitants of Aijalon, who drove away the inhabitants of Gath:
In the reference works
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 11 references
- 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 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)
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 9 references
a-da'-ya, a-di'-a (`adhayah, "Yahweh hath adorned"):
(1) Apparently the seventh of the nine sons of Shimei, who is apparently the same with Shema, who is the fifth of the sons of Elpaal, who is the second of the two sons of Shaharaim and Hushim (1Ch 8:21). Shaharaim and his descendants are listed with the descendants of Benjamin, though his relations to Benjamin are not stated.
(2) A Levite; ancestor to David's singer Asaph, and a descendant of the fifth generation from Gershom (1Ch 6:41).
(3) The father of Maaseiah, who was one of the captains of hundreds associated with Jehoiada the priest in making Joash king (2Ch 23:1).
(4) A resident of Bozkath, and father of Jedidah the mother of King Josiah (2Ki 22:1).
(5) A descendant of Judah through Perez. His great-great-grandson Maaseiah resided in Jerusalem after Nehemiah had rehabilitated the city (Ne 11:5).
(6) One of the men of Israel, not a priest or Levite, but "of the sons of Bani," who promised Ezra that he would part with his foreign wife (Ezr 10:29).
(7) The same man or another, in a different group of the sons of Bani (Ezr 10:39).
(8) One of the priests of the latest Bible times, mentioned with a partial genealogy (Ne 11:12; 1Ch 9:12).
Willis J. Beecher
In the topical indexes
Texts: Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.