Obadiah - Miscellaneous Obadiahs in The Old Testament

Miscellaneous Obadiahs in The Old Testament

Other individuals named Obadiah in the Old Testament are listed as:

• the servant of king Ahab of Israel (1 Kings 18:3). According to both rabbinic tradition and the tradition of the Orthodox Church, this is the same individual as the prophet.
• the son of Hananiah, a descendant of king David of Israel through Solomon (1 Chronicles 3:21)
• the son of Uzzi, a descendant of the Hebrew patriarch Issachar (1 Chronicles 7:3)
• the son of Azel, a descendant of king Saul of Israel through Jonathan (1 Chronicles 8:38)
• the son of Shemaiah, a descendant of the Hebrew patriarch Levi (1 Chronicles 9:16)
• a warrior of the Tribe of Gad who served King David (1 Chronicles 12:9)
• the father of Ishmaiah, governor of the tribe of Zebulun during the reign of king David (1 Chronicles 27:19)
• a prince of the southern kingdom of Judah during the reign of king Jehoshaphat (2 Chronicles 17:7)
• a Levite, overseer of the reconstruction efforts during the reforms of king Josiah of Judah (2 Chronicles 34:12)
• the son of Joab, one of the individuals who returned from the Babylonian captivity with the priestly scribe Ezra, and possibly the Levite mentioned in (Nehemiah 8:9) as a porter of Jerusalem's gates after the city's reconstruction under Nehemiah (Ezra 8:9)