JEHOADDAN
JEHOADDAN
(2
Ch
25>
and,
as
vocalized,
2
K
14«.
The
consonants
of
the
text
in
2
K
14"
give
the
form
Jehoaddin
[so
RV]).—
Mother
of
Amaziah
king
of
Judah.
JEHOAHAZ.—
1.
Jehoahaz
of
Israel
(in
2
K
14>
and
2
Ch
34»
362-
«
Joahaz)
succeeded
his
father
Jehu.
Our
records
tell
us
nothing
of
him
except
the
length
of
his
reign,
which
is
given
as
seventeen
years
(2
K
13'),
and
the
low
estate
of
his
Idngdom,
owing
to
the
aggres-sions
of
Syria.
A
turn
for
the
better
seems
to
have
come
before
his
death,
because
the
forces
of
Assyria
pressing
on
the
north
of
Damascus
turned
the
attention
of
that
country
away
from
Israel
(vv.'-*).
2.
Jehoahaz
of
Judah
(in
1
Es
1»
Joachaz
or
Jeconias
;
in
v."
Zarakes)
was
the
popular
choice
for
the
throne
after
the
death
of
Josiah
(2
K
23"»).
But
Pharaoh-necho,
who
had
obtained
possession
of
all
Syria,
regarded
his
coronation
as
an
act
of
assumption,
deposed
him
in
favour
of
his
brother
Jehoiakim,
and
carried
him
away
to
Egypt,
where
he
died
(v.*").
Jeremiah,
who
calls
him
Shallum,
Snds
his
fate
sadder
than
that
of
his
father
who
fell
in
battle
(Jer
22'°-").
3.
2
Ch
21"
2523=Ahaziah,
No.
2.
H.
P.
Smith.
JEHOASH,
in
the
shorter
form
JOASH,
is
the
name
of
a
king
in
each
of
the
two
lines,
Israel
and
Judah.
1.
Jehoash
of
Judah
was
the
son
of
Ahaziah.
When
an
infant
his
brothers
and
cousins
were
massacred,
some
of
them
by
Jehu
and
some
by
Athaliah.
After
being
kept
in
concealment
until
he
was
seven
years
old,
he
was
crowned
by
the
bodyguard
under
the
active
leadership
of
Jehoiada,
the
chief
priest.
In
his
earlier
years
he
was
under
the
influence
of
the
man
to
whom
he
owed
the
throne,
but
later
he
manifested
his
independ-ence.
Besides
an
arrangement
which
he
made
with
the
priests
about
certain
moneys
which
came
into
their
hands,
the
record
tells
us
only
that
an
invasion
of
the
Syrians
compelled
him
to
pay
a
heavy
tribute.
This
was
drawn
from
the
Temple
treasury.
Jehoash
was
assassinated
by
some
of
his
officers
(2
K
11
f.).
2.
Jehoash
of
Israel
was
the
third
king
of
the
Une
of
Jehu.
The
turn
of
the
tide
in
the
affairs
of
Israel
came
about
the
time
of
his
accession.
The
way
in
which
the
Biblical
author
Indicates
this
is
characteristic.
He
tells
us
that
when
Ellsha
was
about
to
die
Jehoash
came
to
visit
him,
and
wept
over
him
as
a
great
power
about
to
be
lost
to
Israel.
Ellsha
bade
him
take
bow
and
arrows
and
shoot
the
arrow
of
victory
towards
Damascus,
then
to
strike
the
ground
with
the
arrows.
The
three
blows
which
he
struck
represent
the
three
victories
obtained
by
Jehoash,
and
the
blame
expressed
by
Ellsha
indicates
that
his
contemporaries
thought
the
king
alack
in
following
up
his
advantage.
Jehoash
also
obtained
a
signal
victory
over
Judah
in
a
war
wantonly
provoked,
it
would
seem,
by
Amaziah,
king
of
Judah
(2K13'").
H.P.Smith.
JEHOHANAH'.—
1.
1
Ch
263
a
Korahite
doorkeeper.
2.
2
Ch
17"
one
of
Jehoshaphat's
five
captains.
3.
Ezr
10«
(Jonas,
1
Es
9';
Johanan,
Neh
12»-
»;
Jonathan,
Neh
12")
high
priest.
He
is
called
son
of
EUashib
in
Ezr
10«,
Neh
12",
but
was
probably
his
grandson,
Joiada
being
his
father
(Neh
12"-
^).
4.
Ezr
10^'
(=
Joannes,
1
Ee
9"),
one
of
those
who
had
taken
'strange'
wives.
6.
Neh
6"
son
of
Tobiah
the
Ammonite.
6.
Neh
12"
a
priest
in
the
days
of
Joiakim.
7.
Neh
12<2
a
priest
present
at
the
dedication
of
the
walls.
JEHOIACHIN,
king
of
Judah,
ascended
the
throne
when
Nebuchadrezzar
was
on
the
march
to
punish
the
rebellion
of
Jehoiakim.
On
the
approach
of
the
Chaldsean
army,
the
young
king
surrendered
and
was
carried
away
to
Babylon
(2
K
24™).
His
reign
had
lasted
only
three
months,
but
his
confinement
in
Babylon
extended
until
the
death
of
Nebuchadrezzar
—
thirty-
seven
years.
Ezekiel,
who
seems
to
have
regarded
him
as
the
rightful
king
of
Judah
even
in
captivity,
pro-
JEHONADAB
OR
JONADAB
nounced
a
dirge
over
him
(19"').
At
the
accession
of
Evil-merodach
he
was
freed
from
durance,
and
received
a
daily
allowance
from
the
palace
(2
K
252").
Jeremiah
gives
his
name
in
24'
272"
28*
29^
as
Jeconiah,
and
in
22M.
28
371
as
Coniah.
In
1
Es
1"
he
is
called
JoaUm,
in
Bar
l'-
•
Jechonias,
and
in
Mt
1"-
12
Jechoniah.
H.
P.
Smith.
JEHOIADA.
—
1.
Father
of
Benalah,
the
successor
of
Joab,
2
S
818
2023
etc.
It
is
probably
the
same
man
that
is
referred
to
in
1
Ch
122?
27",
where
we
should
probably
read
'Benaiah
the
son
of
Jehoiada.'
2.
The
chief
priest
of
the
Temple
at
the
time
of
Abaziah's
death
(2
K
11<
etc.).
The
Book
of
Chronicles
makes
him
the
husband
of
the
princess
Jehosheba
(or
Jehoshabeath,
2
Ch
22"),
by
whose
presence
of
mind
the
infant
prince
Jehoash
escaped
the
massacre
by
which
Athaliah
secured
the
throne
for
herself.
Jehoiada
must
have
been
privy
to
the
concealment
of
the
prince,
and
it
was
he
who
arranged
the
coup
d'ilal
which
placed
the
rightful
heir
on
the
throne.
In
this
he
may
have
been
moved
by
a
desire
to
save
Judah
from
vassalage
to
Israel,
as
much
as
by
zeal
for
the
legitimate
worship.
H.
P.
Smith.
JEH0TAKT1W,
whose
original
name
wasEliakim,
was
placed
upon
the
throne
of
Judah
by
Pharaoh-necho,
who
deposed
the
more
popular
Jehoahaz.
His
reign
of
eleven
years
is
not
well
spoken
of
by
Jeremiah.
The
religious
abuses
which
had
been
abolished
by
Josiah
seem
to
have
returned
with
greater
strength
than
ever.
At
a
time
when
the
kingdom
was
impoverished
by
war
and
by
the
exactions
of
Egypt,
Jehoiakim
occupied
himself
in
extravagant
schemes
of
building
to
be
carried
out
by
forced
labour
(2
K
232<-24').
Things
were
so
bad
that
in
the
fourth
year
of
his
reign
Jeremiah
dictated
to
Baruch
a
summary
of
all
his
earlier
discourses,
and
bade
him
read
it
in
public
as
though
to
Indicate
that
there
was
no
longer
any
hope.
The
king
showed
his
contempt
for
the
prophetic
word
by
burning
the
roll.
Active
persecution
of
the
prophetic
party
followed,
in
which
one
man
at
least
was
put
to
death.
Jeremiah's
escape
was
due
to
powerful
friends
at
court
(Jer
22'8-"
361-28
262»-2<).
It
was
about
the
time
of
the
burning
of
the
Book
of
Jeremiah
that
the
Egyptian
supremacy
was
ended
by
the
decisive
battle
of
Carchemish.
The
evacuation
of
Palestine
followed,
and
Jehoiakim
was
obliged
to
submit
to
the
Babylonians.
His
heart,
'
however,
was
with
the
Pharaoh,
to
whom
he
owed
his
elevation.
After
three
years
he
revolted
from
the
Babylonian
rule.
Nebuchadrezzar
thought
to
bring
him
into
subjection
by
sending
guerilla
bands
to
harry
the
country,
but
as
this
did
not
succeed,
he
Invaded
Judah
with
an
army
of
regulars.
Before
he
reached
Jerusalem,
Jehoiakim
died,
and
the
surrender
which
was
inevitable,
was
made
by
his
son.
Whether
Jeremiah's
prediction
that
the
corpse
of
the
king
should
be
denied
decent
burial
was
fulfilled
is
not
certain.
H.
P.
Smith.
JEHOIARIB
(1
Ch
9'°
24^
elsewhere
Joiarib;
called
in
1
Mac
2'
Joarib).
—
The
name
of
one
of
the
twenty-four
courses
of
priests;
first
in
David's
time
(1
Ch
24'),
but
seventeenth
in
the
time
of
Zerub.
(Neh
128)
and
of
the
high
priest
Joiakim
(12").
The
name
Is
omitted,
probably
by
accident,
in
the
list
of
the
priests
that
'
sealed
to
the
covenant
'
(Neh
10).
The
clan
is
men-tioned
among
those
that
dwelt
in
Jerusalem
in
the
time
of
Nehemiah
(ll'").
JEHONADAB
or
JONADAB.—
1.
Son
of
Shimeah,
David's
brother,
and
the
friend
of
Amnon
the
son
of
David.
He
is
described
as
'a
very
subtil
man.'
He
aided
Amnon
to
carry
out
his
intrigue
against
his
half-
sister
Tamar
(2
S
138"),
and
after
the
assassination
of
Amnon
was
the
first
to
grasp
the
true
state
of
affairs,
and
to
allay
the
king's
distress
by
his
prompt
report
of
the
safety
of
the
royal
princes
(2
S
13"^).
2.
Son
of
Rechab,
of
the
clan
of
the
Kenites
(1
Ch
2»),
and
