Smith's Bible Dictionary

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him and to fetch him to Riblah. There he was cast into chains, and from thence he was taken into
Egypt, where he died.
•The name given, (2 Chronicles 21:17) to Ahaziah, the youngest son of Jehoram king of Judah.
Jehoash
(given by the Lord), the uncontracted form of Joash.
•The eighth king of Judah; son of Ahaziah. (2 Kings 11:21; 12:1,2,4,6,7,18; 14:13) [Joash, 1]
•The twelfth king of Israel; son of Jehoahaz. (2 Kings 13:10,25; 14:8,9,11,13,15,16,17) [Joash, 2]
Jehohanan
(whom Jehovah gave), a name of which John is the contraction.
•A Korhite Levite, one of the doorkeepers to the tabernacle. (1 Chronicles 26:3) comp. 1Chr 25:1
(B.C. 1014.)
•One of the principal men of Judah under King Jehoshaphat. (2 Chronicles 17:15) comp. 2Chr
17:13 and 2Chr 17:19 (B.C. 910.)
•Father of Ishmael, one of the “captains of hundreds” whom Jehoiada the priest took into his
confidence about the restoration of the line of Judah. (2 Chronicles 23:1) (B.C. 910.)
•One of the Bene-Bebai who was forced to put away his foreign wife. (Ezra 10:28) (B.C. 459.)
•A priest, (Nehemiah 12:13) during the high priesthood of Joiakim. ver. (Nehemiah 12:12) (B.C.
406.)
•A priest who took part in the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem. (Nehemiah 12:42) (B.C. 446.)
Jehoiachin
(whom Jehovah has appointed), son of Jehoiakim, and for three months and ten days king of
Judah. (B.C. 597.) At his accession Jerusalem was quite defenseless, and unable to offer any
resistance to the army which Nebuchadnezzar sent to besiege it. (2 Kings 24:10,11) In a very short
time Jehoiachin surrendered at discretion; and he, and the queen-mother, and all his servants,
captains and officers, came out and gave themselves up to Nebuchadnezzar, who carried them,
with the harem and the eunuchs, to Babylon. (Jeremiah 29:2; Ezekiel 17:12; 19:9) There he remained
a prisoner, actually in prison and wearing prison garments, for thirty-six years, viz., till the death
of Nebuchadnezzar, when Evilmerodach, succeeding to the throne of Babylon, brought him out of
prison, and made him sit at this own table. The time of his death is uncertain.
Jehoiada
(Jehovah knows).
•Father of Benaiah, David’s well-known warrior. (2 Samuel 8:18) 1Kin 1 and 2 passim ; ( 1
Chronicles 18:17) etc. (B.C. before 1046.)
•Leader of the Aaronites, i.e. the priests; who joined David at Hebron. (1 Chronicles 12:27) (B.C.
1053-46.)
•According to (1 Chronicles 27:34) son of Benaiah; but in all probability Benaiah the sons of
Jehoiada is meant. Probably an error in copying. (1 Chronicles 18:17; 2 Samuel 8:18)
•High priest at the time of Athaliah’s usurpation of the throne of Judah, B.C. 884-878, and during
the greater portion of the forty-years reign of Joash. He married Jehosheba; and when Athaliah
slew all the seed royal to Judah after Ahaziah had been put to death by Jehu, he and his wife stole
Joash from among the king’s sons and hid him for six years in the temple, and eventually replaced
him on the throne of his ancestors. [Athaliah] The destruction of Baal-worship and the restoration
of the temple were among the great works effected by Jehoiada. He died B.C. 834.
•Second priest, or sagan, to Seraiah the high priest. (Jeremiah 29:25-29; 2 Kings 25:18)

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