IDDO

(Idʹdo) [Heb., ʽId·dohʹ, ʽId·dohʼʹ, Yeʽ·dohʹ, Yeʽ·diʹ, ʽId·doʼʹ; decked, adorned].

1. Son of Joah; a Levite of the family of Gershom.—1 Chron. 6:19-21.

2. Father of Ahinadab, the one serving as Solomon’s food deputy in Mahanaim.—1 Ki. 4:7, 14.

3. A visionary whose writings were consulted by the compiler of Chronicles for information concerning the affairs of Kings Solomon, Rehoboam and Abijah. Iddo’s writings are referred to as an “exposition,” a “commentary” or a “midrash.”—2 Chron. 9:29; 12:15; 13:22, NW, 1955 ed., ftn.

4. A prophet, father of Berechiah and grandfather of the prophet Zechariah. (Ezra 5:1; 6:14; Zech. 1:1, 7) This Iddo may be the same as No. 5.

5. A priest listed among those returning to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel in 537 B.C.E. In the days of High Priest Joiakim the paternal house of Iddo was headed by Zechariah. (Neh. 12:1, 4, 12, 16) He may be the same as No. 4.

6. [Yid·dohʹ; loving, beloved]. Son of a certain Zechariah; prince of the half tribe of Manasseh in Gilead in King David’s time.—1 Chron. 27:21, 22.

7. [ʼId·dohʹ; to happen unexpectedly, to overwhelm]. Head of the Nethinim temple slaves residing at Casiphia, two hundred and twenty of whom accompanied Ezra to Jerusalem in 468 B.C.E.—Ezra 8:17, 20.