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Contracted from Zebadijah, "Jehovah hath given him."
1. Son of Nathan, great grandson of Ahlai, Sheshun's daughter (-37). See Smith's Dict. in proof that this genealogy ends in the time of Hezekiah. "Son" means great grandson "of Ahlai" (). One of David's mighty men. Sheshan married an Egyptian husband, Jarha; of her as being the Israelite parent Zabad is called "the son," i.e. descendant, just as Joab, Abishai, and Asahel, are called from the mother's side sons of Zeruiah, who married a foreigner.
2. An Ephraimite ().
3. A domestic palace servant of king Joash, one of the slayers of Joash; son of Shimeath an Ammonitess (). Jozachar in -21; Zachar is the abbreviation, and Zabad is a transcriber's error for Zachar! One of a powerful conspiracy stirred up by Joash's unpopularity owing to his idolatries, oppression, and foreign disasters (2 Chronicles 24). Amaziah executed him, but not his children (-4; ).
4. Son of Zattu; put away his foreign wife ().
5. Descendant of Hashum; did the same ().
6. Son of Nebo; did the same ().