Discovery Box| (1.00) | (Ezr 5:1) | 1 tn Aram “son.” According to Zech 1:1 he was actually the grandson of Iddo. |
| (1.00) | (Ezr 5:1) | 2 tn Aram “and Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo the prophet.” |
| (0.62) | (Neh 12:16) | 1 tc The present translation (along with most English versions) reads with the Qere and the Syriac Peshitta לְעִדּוֹא (leʿiddoʾ, “Iddo”) rather than the MT reading לַעֲדָיָא (laʿadayaʾ) which probably arose through graphic confusion. Cf. v. 4. |
| (0.53) | (Zec 1:1) | 3 sn Both Ezra (5:1; 6:14) and Nehemiah (12:16) speak of Zechariah as a son of Iddo only. A probable explanation is that Zechariah’s actual father Berechiah had died and the prophet was raised by his grandfather Iddo. The “Zechariah son of Barachiah” of whom Jesus spoke (Matt 23:35; Luke 11:51) was probably the martyred prophet by that name who may have been a grandson of the priest Jehoiada (2 Chr 24:20-22). |
