Jahdo

Jahdo is named once, as one link in a Gadite genealogy that runs back from Abihail through seven generations to Buz.

A Link in the Gadite Genealogy

The single occurrence reads: "These were the sons of Abihail, the son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of Jeshishai, the son of Jahdo, the son of Buz" (1Ch 5:14). Jahdo stands second from the bottom in the chain — son of Buz, father of Jeshishai, and a generational ancestor of Abihail at the head of the line.

A Tribe of Gad in Bashan

The genealogy belongs to the Gadites east of the Jordan: "the sons of Gad dwelt across from them, in the land of Bashan to Salecah" (1Ch 5:11). The Chronicler runs the chiefs and their seven brothers (1Ch 5:12-13), gives Abihail's seven-generation pedigree (the sentence containing Jahdo, 1Ch 5:14), notes Ahi son of Abdiel as "chief of their fathers' houses" (1Ch 5:15), and describes their settlement: "they dwelt in Gilead in Bashan, and in its towns, and in all the suburbs of Sharon, as far as their borders" (1Ch 5:16). The whole panel is dated: "All these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel" (1Ch 5:17). Jahdo's name carries no episode of its own; it preserves a step in the line of a Gadite house living in Bashan and Gilead in the eighth century.