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Hodaviah הוֹדַוְיָה
Returned from exile. Hodaviah (also known as Hodevah or Judah) was a Levite who returned to Jerusalem from Babylonian captivity and assisted in rebuilding the temple.
Also called Hodevah, Judah.
Where Hodaviah appears
Key verses
- Ezra 2:40 first mention — The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy and four.
- Ezra 3:9 — Then stood Jeshua with his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to set forward the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their brethren the Levites.
- Nehemiah 7:43 — The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, and of the children of Hodevah, seventy and four.
Person data: STEPBible.org TIPNR, Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0), adapted. Verse text: King James Version.