Definition: | Obadiah = "servant of Jehovah"
1) the 4th of the 12 minor prophets; nothing personal is known of him
but it is probable that he was contemporary with Jeremiah, Ezekiel,
and Daniel
1a) the prophetic book by him; prophesies against Edom
2) father of Ishmaiah, one of the chiefs of Zebulun in the time of David
3) a Merarite Levite overseer of the work of restoring the temple in
the time of king Josiah of Judah
4) chief of the household of king Ahab of Israel; an devout worshipper
of Jehovah who at risk to his own life hid over 100 prophets during
the persecution of Jezebel
5) a descendant of David
6) a chief of the tribe of Issachar
7) a Benjamite, one of the 6 sons of Azel and a descendant of king Saul
8) a Levite, son of Shemaiah and a descendant of Jeduthun
9) a Gadite chief, the 2nd of the lion-faced Gadites who joined David
at Ziklag
10) a prince of Judah in the time of king Jehoshaphat of Judah
11) a priest, son of Jehiel of the sons of Joab who returned from
exile with Ezra
12) a gatekeeper in the time of Nehemiah
13) one of the men who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah
13a) perhaps the same as 12
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