And the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded,.... The same with Iddo, as Hillerus h thinks; and some suppose this to be the name of the son as well as the father, but called Azariah, to distinguish him from him, see 2 Chronicles 15:8 on whom came, as the Targum, the spirit of prophecy, instructing him what to say to Asa; and the Jews say i he is the same with Iddo, and he the same that was sent to Jeroboam, to reprove him for the altar he built.
h Onomastic, Sacr. p. 458. i In Hieron. Trad. Heb. in Paralipom. fol. 84. L. & 85. A.