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Adaiah () was the name of eight individuals mentioned in the
Hebrew Bible The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (;"Tanach"
. '' Yahweh Yahweh was an Ancient Semitic religion, ancient Semitic deity of Weather god, weather and List of war deities, war in the History of the ancient Levant, ancient Levant, the national god of the kingdoms of Kingdom of Judah, Judah and Kingdom ...
passes by." #Adaiah, the father of Queen Jedidah. He was of Boscath, a town in the
Kingdom of Judah The Kingdom of Judah was an Israelites, Israelite kingdom of the Southern Levant during the Iron Age. Centered in the highlands to the west of the Dead Sea, the kingdom's capital was Jerusalem. It was ruled by the Davidic line for four centuries ...
mentioned in the Hebrew Scriptures. His grandson was king
Josiah Josiah () or Yoshiyahu was the 16th king of Judah (–609 BCE). According to the Hebrew Bible, he instituted major religious reforms by removing official worship of gods other than Yahweh. Until the 1990s, the biblical description of Josiah’s ...
of
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. #An Adaiah mentioned in passing as the ancestor of a Levite named Asaph, in (counted as 6:26 in some Bibles). #An Adaiah mentioned in as being the son of a Shimei in a Benjamite genealogy. #A priest listed in and . According to Cheyne and Black, it is possible that this same priest should appear in or 7, but has been removed by a scribal error that left the name " Jedaiah" in its place. #A descendant of Bani, listed in . #Another descendant of Bani, listed in . #An Adaiah, son of Joiarib, listed in . #An Adaiah mentioned as being the father of Maaseiah in .


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