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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Hodaviah (Man living at the time of Exile and Return)
Hodaviah, meaning “praise the LORD,” is the name of several distinct men in the Old Testament genealogies, including a chief of the half-tribe of Manasseh east of the Jordan (1 Chronicles 5:24), a descendant of the royal line of David listed after the exile (1 Chronicles 3:24), and the ancestor of a Levitical family that returned to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel (Ezra 2:40).
Hodaviah, meaning “praise the LORD,” is the name of several distinct men in the Old Testament genealogies, including a chief of the half-tribe of Manasseh east of the Jordan (1 Chronicles 5:24), a descendant of the royal line of David listed after the exile (1 Chronicles 3:24), and the ancestor of a Levitical family that returned to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel (Ezra 2:40).
Hodaviah, meaning “praise the LORD,” is the name of several distinct men in the Old Testament genealogies, including a chief of the half-tribe of Manasseh east of the Jordan (1 Chronicles 5:24), a descendant of the royal line of David listed after the exile (1 Chronicles 3:24), and the ancestor of a Levitical family that returned to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel (Ezra 2:40). None of the individuals bearing the name has a recorded narrative beyond their place in these lists.
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- Ezra 2:40
