Harim = "dedicated"

1. a priest in the time of David who had charge of the 3rd course

2. head of a family of exiles totalling 1017 who returned with Zerubbabel

3. another head of a family of exiles totalling 320 who returned with Zerubbabel

4. a priest in the time of Nehemiah

5. a ruler of the people under Nehemiah

Meremoth = "elevations"

1. a priest, son of Uriah of the family of Koz active in rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem and in the 7th course of temple service in the time of Ezra and Nehemiah

2. a priest in the time of Zerubbabel

3. a returning exile of the family of Bani who had a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

Obadiah = "servant of Jehovah"

1. the 4th of the 12 minor prophets; nothing personal is known of him but it is probable that he was contemporary with Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel

   1. the prophetic book by him; prophesies against Edom

2. father of Ishmaiah, one of the chiefs of Zebulun in the time of David

3. a Merarite Levite overseer of the work of restoring the temple in the time of king Josiah of Judah

4. chief of the household of king Ahab of Israel; an devout worshipper of Jehovah who at risk to his own life hid over 100 prophets during the persecution of Jezebel

5. a descendant of David

6. a chief of the tribe of Issachar

7. a Benjamite, one of the 6 sons of Azel and a descendant of king Saul

8. a Levite, son of Shemaiah and a descendant of Jeduthun

9. a Gadite chief, the 2nd of the lion-faced Gadites who joined David at Ziklag

10. a prince of Judah in the time of king Jehoshaphat of Judah

11. a priest, son of Jehiel of the sons of Joab who returned from exile with Ezra

12. a gatekeeper in the time of Nehemiah

13. one of the men who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah

    1. perhaps the same as 12 above