Reference: Adaiah
Hastings
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, Ne 11:5. 9. A Levite of the family of Aaron, Ne 11:12; probably the same as No. 4.
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Josiah was eight years old when he became king. He ruled in Jerusalem thirty-one years. His mother's name was Jedidah daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath.
Adaiah son of Jeroham, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malkijah; and Maasai son of Adiel, the son of Jahzerah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, the son of Immer.
After a six-year wait Jehoiada the priest decided that it was time to take action. He made a pact with five army officers: Azariah son of Jeroham, Ishmael son of Jehohanan, Azariah son of Obed, Maaseiah son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat son of Zichri.
And Maaseiah, the son of Baruch, the son of Col-hozeh, the son of Hazaiah, the son of Adaiah, the son of Joiarib, the son of Zechariah, the son of the Shilonite.
Their brothers who did the work of the house, eight hundred and twenty-two; and Adaiah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah,