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Smith's Bible Dictionary
•A man whose sons are enumerated in the genealogy of the tribe of Judah. (1 Chronicles 3:21)
(B.C. 470.)
•A descendant of Issachar and a chief man of his tribe. (1 Chronicles 7:3) (B.C. 1014.)
•One of the six sons of Azel, a descendant of Saul. (1 Chronicles 8:33; 9:44) (B.C. 720.)
•A Levite, son of Shemaiah, and descended from Jeduthun. (1 Chronicles 9:16; Nehemiah 12:25)
•The second of the lion-faced Gadites who joined David at Ziklag. (1 Chronicles 12:9) (B.C. 1054.)
•One of the Princes of Judah in the reign of Jehoshaphat. (2 Chronicles 17:7) (B.C. 909.)
•The son of Jehiel, of the sons of Joab, who came up in the second caravan with Ezra. (Ezra 8:9)
•A priest, or family of priests, who settled the covenant with Nehemiah. (Nehemiah 10:5)
•The fourth of the twelve minor prophets. We know nothing of him except what we can gather
from the short book which bears his name. The question of his date must depend upon the
interpretation of the 11th verse of his prophecy. He there speaks of the conquest of Jerusalem and
the captivity of Jacob as having occurred, He probably refers to the captivity by Nebuchadnezzar,
B.C. 688. It must have been uttered at some time in the five years which intervened between B.C.
588 and 583. The book of Obadiah is a sustained denunciation of the Edomites, melting into a
vision of the future glories of Zion when the arm of the Lord should have wrought her deliverance
and have repaid double upon her enemies.
•An officer of high rank in the court of Ahab. (1 Kings 18:3) He was a devout worshipper of
Jehovah, and at the peril of his life concealed over a hundred prophets during the persecution by
Jezebel; (1 Kings 18:3-16) (B.C. 904.)
•The father of Ishmaiah who was chief of the tribe of Zebulun in David’s reign. (1 Chronicles
27:19) (B.C. before 1014.)
•A Merarite Levite in the reign of Josiah, and one of the overseers of the workmen in the restoration
of the temple. (2 Chronicles 34:12) (B.C.623.)
Obal
(stripped bare), son of Joktan, and, like the rest of family, apparently the founder of an Arab
tribe. (Genesis 10:28) In (1 Chronicles 1:22) the name is written Ebal.
Obed
(serving).
•Son of Boaz and Ruth the Moabitess and father of Jesse. (Ruth 4:17) (B.C. 1360.) The circumstances
of his birth which make up all that we know about him are given with much beauty in the book
of Ruth. The name of Obed occurs only (Ruth 4:17) and in the four genealogies, (Ruth 4:21,22;
1 Chronicles 2:12; Matthew 1:5; Luke 3:32)
•A descendant of Jarha, the Egyptian slave of Sheshan, in the line of Jerahmeel. (1 Chronicles
2:37,38) (B.C. after 1014.)
•One of David’s mighty men. (1 Chronicles 11:47) (B.C. 1046.)
•One of the gate-keepers of the temple; son of Shemaiah the first-born of Obed-edom. (1 Chronicles
26:7) (B.C. 1017.)
•Father of Azariah, one of the captains of hundreds who joined with Jehoiada in the revolution by
which Athaliah fell. (2 Chronicles 23:1) (B.C. before 876.)
Obededom
(servant of Edom).
•A Levite, described as a Gittite, (2 Samuel 6:10,11) that is, probably, a native of the Levitical city
of Gath-rimmon in Manasseh, which was assigned to the Kohathites. (Joshua 21:25) (B.C. 1045.)
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