Jedaiah is a priest’s name that turns up in the lists the Bible keeps of Israel’s temple servants. When David’s priests were divided into courses by lot, “the first lot came forth to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah” (1 Chronicles 24:7). After the exile, the children of Jedaiah come back, nine hundred seventy and three, and Nehemiah names him among the chief priests. Little is told about the man himself. What the verses show is a family of priests that kept its place in the worship of God across generations. Ezra 2 and Nehemiah 12 are where to look.
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And of the priests; Jedaiah, and Jehoiarib, and Jachin,
Now the first lot came forth to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah,
The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.
Of the priests: Jedaiah the son of Joiarib, Jachin.
Shemaiah, and Joiarib, Jedaiah,
Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chief of the priests and of their brethren in the days of Jeshua.
And of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;
Of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah, Nethaneel.
Matthew George Easton, 1897
(1.) Invoker of Jehovah. The son of Shimri, a chief Simeonite (1 Chr. 4:37).
(2.) One of those who repaired the walls of Jerusalem after the return from Babylon (Neh. 3:10).
(3.) Knowing Jehovah. The chief of one of the courses of the priests (1 Chr. 24:7).
(4.) A priest in Jerusalem after the Exile (1 Chr. 9:10).
William Smith, 1884
(1.) A Simeonite, forefather of Ziza. (1 Chronicles 4:37)
(2.) Son of Harumaph; a man who did his part in the rebuilding of the wall of Jerusalem. (Nehemiah 3:10) (B.C. 446.)
(praise Jehovah).
(1.) Head of the second course of priests, as they were divided in the time of David. (1 Chronicles 24:7) (B.C. 1014.) some of them survived to return to Jerusalem after the Babylonish captivity, as appears from (Ezra 2:36; Nehemiah 7:39)
(2.) A priest in the time of Jeshua the high priest. (Zechariah 6:10,14) (B.C. 536.)