- JOKDEAM a city in the mountains of Judah (Joshua 15:56).
- JOKIM whom Jehovah has set up, one of the descendants of Shelah (1
Chronicles 4:22). - JOKMEAM gathering of the people, a city of Ephraim, which was given
with its suburbs to the Levites (1 Chronicles 6:68). It lay somewhere in
the Jordan valley (1 Kings 4:12, R.V.; but in A.V. incorrectly “Jokneam”). - JOKNEAM gathered by the people, (Joshua 19:11; 21:34), a city “of
Carmel” (12:22), i.e., on Carmel, allotted with its suburbs to the Merarite
Levites. It is the modern Tell Kaimon, about 12 miles south-west of
Nazareth, on the south of the river Kishon. - JOKSHAN snarer, the second son of Abraham and Keturah (Genesis
25:2, 3; 1 Chronicles 1:32). - JOKTAN little, the second of the two sons of Eber (Genesis 10:25; 1
Chronicles 1:19). There is an Arab tradition that Joktan (Arab. Kahtan)
was the progenitor of all the purest tribes of Central and Southern Arabia. - JOKTHEEL subdued by God. (1.) A city of Judah near Lachish (Joshua
15, 38). Perhaps the ruin Kutlaneh, south of Gezer.
(2.) Amaziah, king of Judah, undertook a great expedition against Edom (2
Chronicles 25:5-10), which was completely successful. He routed the
Edomites and slew vast numbers of them. So wonderful did this victory
appear to him that he acknowledged that it could have been achieved only
by the special help of God, and therefore he called Selah (q.v.), their great
fortress city, by the name of Joktheel (2 Kings 14:7).
- JONADAB =Jehon’adab. (1.) The son of Rechab, and founder of the
Rechabites (q.v.), 2 Kings 10:15; Jeremiah 35:6, 10.
(2.) The son of Shimeah, David’s brother (2 Samuel 13:3). He was “a very
subtil man.”
- JONAH a dove, the son of Amittai of Gath-hepher. He was a prophet of
Israel, and predicted the restoration of the ancient boundaries (2 Kings
14:25-27) of the kingdom. He exercised his ministry very early in the reign
of Jeroboam II., and thus was contemporary with Hosea and Amos; or
possibly he preceded them, and consequently may have been the very
oldest of all the prophets whose writings we possess. His personal history