Bible Person
Meaning: servant of the Lord · Male · 1 cross reference
This Obadiah entry refers to the man accompanying Ezra in Ezra 8:9, not to the prophet, the Gadite warrior, or the Jehoshaphat-era prince. He belongs to the remembered company returning from exile. First appears in Ezra 8:9.1
AI summary: This Obadiah matters because his single cross reference preserves the leadership identity behind one of the groups traveling with Ezra. The entry helps keep the restoration story rooted in named households rather than anonymous totals. Taken together, the material presents this Obadiah as a returnee leader in the post-exilic community.1
Central Figure
Obadiah
Meaning: servant of the Lord
One who accompanied Ezra on the return from Babylon (Ezra 8:9).
| Book | Cross-References |
|---|---|
| Ezra |
Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.