Obadiah = "servant of Jehovah"
- the 4th of the 12 minor prophets; nothing personal is known of him but it is probable that he was contemporary with Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel
- the prophetic book by him; prophesies against Edom
- father of Ishmaiah, one of the chiefs of Zebulun in the time of David
- a Merarite Levite overseer of the work of restoring the temple in the time of king Josiah of Judah
- chief of the household of king Ahab of Israel; an devout worshipper of Jehovah who at risk to his own life hid over 100 prophets during the persecution of Jezebel
- a descendant of David
- a chief of the tribe of Issachar
- a Benjamite, one of the 6 sons of Azel and a descendant of king Saul
- a Levite, son of Shemaiah and a descendant of Jeduthun
- a Gadite chief, the 2nd of the lion-faced Gadites who joined David at Ziklag
- a prince of Judah in the time of king Jehoshaphat of Judah
- a priest, son of Jehiel of the sons of Joab who returned from exile with Ezra
- a gatekeeper in the time of Nehemiah
- one of the men who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah
- perhaps the same as 12