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Was Zechariah Iddo's son or grandson?
Ezra's short identification omits Berechiah, the father named in Zechariah's fuller ancestry.
- Textual conflict
- Weak contradiction
- The supplied passages do not establish incompatible claims. Different events, meanings, or conditions may account for the difference.
- Importance
- Minor
- A local detail in a story, chronology, or inventory.
Calling Zechariah Iddo's son can abbreviate the fuller descent through Berechiah without assigning an unrelated ancestry.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
Ezra identifies Zechariah as Iddo's son
Then the prophets, Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied unto the Jews that were in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, even unto them.
Ezra 5:1
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:Ezra 5
And the elders of the Jews builded, and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they builded, and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.
Ezra 6:14
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:Ezra 6