6 others in the registry answer to the name Iddo. Every Iddo in the Bible
- verses
- 1
- first named
- Ezra 8:17
- last named
- Ezra 8:17
- period
- Exile and Return
- role
- Prophet
Description
Who was Iddo?
Iddo is mentioned in Ezr.8.17 as a leader in Casiphia, a place whose exact location is unknown but was likely a Jewish settlement in Babylonia during the Persian period. He is described as being "at the place Casiphia," suggesting that he held a position of authority or influence there.
In the context of Ezra 8, Ezra is preparing to lead a group of Israelites back to Jerusalem from Babylon. As part of his preparations, Ezra sends a message to Iddo and his brethren, requesting that they provide Levites to assist in the temple service. The text states that Ezra "told them what to say to Iddo and his brethren the temple servants at the place Casiphia, namely, to send us ministers for the house of our God."
Iddo's role in this passage suggests that he was responsible for overseeing a community of Levites and temple servants in Casiphia. Ezra's request indicates that Iddo had the authority to send Levites to assist in the temple service in Jerusalem.
The fact that Ezra specifically reached out to Iddo and the Levites in Casiphia highlights the importance of the Levitical role in the restoration of temple worship after the Babylonian exile. It also suggests that there were Jewish communities outside of Jerusalem that maintained their religious identity and were willing to support the rebuilding efforts in Jerusalem.
Apart from this brief mention in Ezra 8, no other details are provided about Iddo's life or his role as a leader in Casiphia. However, his inclusion in the narrative emphasizes the significance of the Levites in the restoration of Jewish worship and the cooperation between Jewish communities in Babylon and Jerusalem during the post-exilic period.
Relations
Direct connections
The kinship import reads the registry's own columns — parent, child, sibling, spouse — for every entity in it, and records none here. An extracted relation would be listed beside them, and none names this person either.
Not stated
No family is recorded for this person.
Places
Where this happens
A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.
No verse Atlas has read as a report puts this person anywhere.
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The pattern
Where Iddo is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
1 verse across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in Ezra (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — one, across 1 book. The name is written 2 times in them.
Onward
Where this page goes
Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
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