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ADAIAH (‘Jehovah has adorned’).—1. The maternal grandfather of Josiah, 2Ki_22:1. 2. A Levite, 1Ch_6:41, called Iddo in 1Ch_6:21. 3. A son of Shimei (in v. 13 Shema) the Benjamite, 1Ch_8:21. 4. The son of Jeroham, a priest, and head of a family in Jerusalem, 1Ch_9:12. 5. The father of Maaseiah, a captain who helped to overthrow the usurpation of Athaliah, 2Ch_23:1. 6. One of the family of Bani, who took a strange wife during the Exile, Ezr_10:29. 7. Another of a different family of Bani, who had committed the same offence, Ezr_10:39. 8. A descendant of Judah by Pharez, Neh_11:5. 9. A Levite of the family of Aaron, Neh_11:12; probably the same as No. 4.