We meet with two of this name in Scripture, Obed the father of Jesse, Ruth 4: 17. - - and Obed the father of Jehu, 1 Chron. 2: 37. The name is Hebrew, and means servant.
a prophet of the Lord, who, being at Samaria when the Israelites of the ten tribes returned from the war with their King Pekah, together with two hundred thousand of the people of Judah, whom they had taken captive, went out to meet them; and through his remonstrances the captives were liberated, 2 Chronicles 28. This circumstance is all that is recorded concerning Obed.
O’bed. (serving).
1. Son of Boaz, and Ruth, the Moabitess, and father of Jesse. Rth 4:17. (B.C. 1360). The circumstances of his birth, which make up all that we know about him, are given with much beauty in the book of Ruth. The name of Obed occurs only in Rth 4:17, and in the four genealogies, Rth 4:21-22; 1Ch 2:12; Mat 1:5; Luk 3:32.
2. A descendant of Jarha, the Egyptian slave of Sheshan, in the line of Jerahmeel. 1Ch 2:37-38. (B.C. after 1014).
3. One of David’s mighty men. 1Ch 11:47. (B.C. 1046).
4. One of the gate-keepers of the Temple, son of Shemaiah, the first-born of Obed-edom. 1Ch 26:7. (B.C. 1017).
5. Father of Azariah, one of the captains of hundreds, who joined with Jehoiada, in the revolution, by which Athaliah fell. 2Ch 23:1. (B.C. before 876).
1. Son of Boaz and Ruth (Rth 4:17); father of Jesse, David’s father (1Ch 2:12; Mat 1:5; Luk 3:22). Hannah in her song (1Sa 2:5; 1Sa 2:7; 1Sa 2:10, "they that were hungry ceased ... the barren hath borne seven ... the Lord maketh poor and maketh rich") apparently alludes to Ruth’s experience as reproduced in her own. Ruth poor and gleaning in the grain becomes wife of Boaz, the "mighty man of wealth." From her springs "the Anointed King" Messiah, of whom Hannah sings. The famine which drove Elimelech’s sons to Moab was not long before, due in part to Philistine inroads (compare 1 Samuel 4). The women congratulated Naomi on Obed’s birth: "the Lord hath not left thee without a kinsman (
2. 1Ch 2:37-38.
3. 1Ch 11:47.
4. 1Ch 26:7.
5. Father of Azariah. (2Ch 23:1).
[O’bed]
1. Son of Boaz and Ruth the Moabitess, and father of Jesse. Rth 4:17-22; 1Ch 2:12; Mat 1:5; Luk 3:32.
2. Son of Ephlal, a descendant of Jarha, the Egyptian slave of Sheshan. 1Ch 2:37-38.
3. One of David’s mighty men. 1Ch 11:47.
4. Son of Shemaiah, a Korhite. 1Ch 26:7.
5. Father of Azariah. 2Ch 23:1.
By: Executive Committee of the Editorial Board., Schulim Ochser
1. Son of Boaz by Ruth, the daughter of Naomi. He was named, curiously enough, by Naomi's neighbors, and not after his own kindred. Obed was the father of Jesse and the grandfather of David (Ruth iv. 17, 21, 22; I Chron. ii. 12). 2. Son of Ephlal and descendant of Sheshan, who had married his daughter to an Egyptian slave named Jarha (I Chron. ii. 37). 3. One of the thirty captains of David (ib. xi. 47). 4. One of the sons of Shemaiah and grandsons of Obed-edom, of the Korahites, whom, on account of their exceptional bravery, David appointed to guard the Temple (ib. xxvi. 7). 5. Father of Azariah; a captain whom the high priest Jehoiada induced to conspire to kill Queen Athaliah so that Joash, though still a minor, might ascend the throne of David (II Chron. xxiii. 1).
(1) Son of Boaz and Ruth and grandfather of David (Rth 4:17, Rth 4:21, Rth 4:22; 1Ch 2:12; Mat 1:5; Luk 3:32).
(2) Son of Ephlal and descendant of Sheshan, the Jerahmeelite, through his daughter who was married to Jarha, an Egyptian servant of her father’s (1Ch 2:37, 1Ch 2:38).
(3) One of David’s mighty men (1Ch 11:47).
(4) A Korahite doorkeeper, son of Shemaiah, and grandson of Obed-edom (1Ch 26:7).
(5) Father of Azariah, one of the centurions who took part with Jehoiada in deposing Queen Athaliah and crowning Joash (2Ch 23:1; compare 2 Ki 11:1-16).