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Iddo

 

1. The father of Ahinadab who supplied food to King Solomon's household.

2. A Levite, descendant of Gershon.

3. The son of a certain Zechariah; he was a leader of the half-tribe of Manasseh in Gilead during the time of King David.

4. A seer who lived during the reigns of Solomon, Rehoboam and Abijah. His deeds were recorded "in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer" (II Chr 12:14-15).

5. The grandfather of the prophet Zechariah (Zech 1:1, 7). In Ezra 5:1 and 6:14, he is given as the father of Zechariah.

6. The head of a family of priests who returned from the Babylonian captivity.

7. The leading figure at Casiphia, to whom Ezra dispatched a delegation with the request to send Levites for the Temple, no Levites having returned up to that time from Babylonian captivity.

Concordance
IDDO 1: I Kgs 4:14
IDDO 2: I Chr 6:21
IDDO 3: I Chr 27:21
IDDO 4: II Chr 9:29; 12:15; 13:22
IDDO 5: Ezra 5:1; 6:14. Zech 1:1, 7
IDDO 6: Neh 12:4, 16
IDDO 7: Ezra 8:17


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Iddo (ĭd'ō), in the Bible.

1 Ruler of Manasseh.

2 Father of one of Solomon's stewards.

3 Prophet, whose book is mentioned as a source.

4 Father or grandfather of the prophet Zechariah.

5 A leader in the return from the Exile.

6 See Adaiah b>2.

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Iddo (Hebrew: עדו also עידו) was a minor biblical prophet, who appears to have lived during the reigns of King Solomon and his heirs, Rehoboam and Abijah in the Kingdom of Judah. Though little is known about him, and he appears only in the Books of Chronicles, Iddo seems to have been rather prolific in his day, with his prophecies concerning the rival King Jeroboam I of Israel recorded in a lost book of visions (see 2 Chronicles 9:29). He also composed a history of King Rehoboam, known as the "Words of Shemaiah the Prophet and Iddo the Seer" (2 Chronicles 12:15), and of his son King Abijah (2 Chronicles 13:22). Some, such as Rashi, identify him with the unidentified "man of God" from I Kings 13:1.

Another Iddo is mentioned in Ezra 8.17 as the chief man at the place Casiphia. Ezra requests assistance from Iddo and his brethren to bring servants for the Temple.

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Ahinadab
Wernick (family name)
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