son of Jeduthun, a Levite, (1 Chr. xvi. 38.) and father of Shemaiah, Jehozabad, Joah, Sacar, Nathanael, Ammiel, Issachar, and Peulthai. He had a numerous family, says the Scripture, (1 Chron. xxvi. 4,) because the Lord blessed him; and this is the occasion of the blessing. When David transferred the ark of the covenant to the city of Jerusalem, Uzzah having rashly laid hands on the ark, which he thought to be in danger of falling, was smitten of God, and died upon the spot. David terrified at this accident, durst not remove the ark into the place he had provided for it in his own house, but set it up in the house of Obededom, which was near the place where Uzzah had been struck dead. But the presence of the ark not only created no temporal misfortune to the family of this Levite, but, on the contrary, the Lord heaped upon him all sorts of blessings; which encouraged David some months after to remove it to the place he had appointed for it. Afterwards Obed-edom and his sons were assigned to be keepers of the doors of the temple, (1 Chron. xv. 18, 21.). In the second book of Samuel, (vi. 10.) Obed-edom is called the Gittite, probably because he was of Gathrimmon, a city of the Levites beyond Jordan, (Joth. xxi. 24, 25.).