Jerusalem. It was probably about the 16th year of his reign, B.C. 898, when he became Ahab’s
ally in the great battle of Ramoth-gilead, for which he was severely reproved by Jehu. (2 Chronicles
19:2) He built at Ezion-geber, with the help of Ahaziah, a navy designed to go to Tarshish; but it
was wrecked at Ezion-geber. Before the close of his reign he was engaged in two additional wars.
He was miraculously delivered from a threatened attack of the people of Ammon, Moab and Seir.
After this, perhaps, must be dated the war which Jehoshaphat, in conjunction with Jehoram king
of Israel and the king of Edom, carried on against the rebellious king of Moab. (2 Kings 3:1) ...
In his declining years the administration of affairs was placed, probably B.C. 891, in the hands of
his son Jehoram.
•Son of Ahilud, who filled the office of recorder of annalist in the courts of David, (2 Samuel 8:16)
etc., and Solomon. (1 Kings 4:3)
•One of the priests in David’s time. (1 Chronicles 15:24)
•Son of Paruah; one of the twelve purveyors of King Solomon. (1 Kings 4:17)
•Son of Nimshi and father of King Jehu. (2 Kings 9:2,14)
Jehoshaphat, Valley Of
(valley of the judgment of Jehovah), a valley mentioned by Joel only, as the spot in which, after
the return of Judah and Jerusalem from captivity, Jehovah would gather all the heathen, (Joel 3:2)
and would there sit to judge them for their misdeeds to Israel. ch. (Joel 3:12) The scene of “Jehovah’s
judgment” as been localized, and the name has come down to us attached to that deep ravine which
separates Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, through which at one time the Kedron forced its
stream. At what period the name “valley of Jehoshaphat” was first applied to this spot is unknown.
It is not mentioned in the Bible or Josephus, but is first encountered in the middle of the fourth
century. Both Moslems and Jews believe that the last judgment is to take place there. The steep
sides of the ravine, wherever a level strip affords the opportunity, are crowded—in places almost
paved— by the sepulchres of the Moslems, or the simpler slabs of the Jewish tombs, alike awaiting
the assembly of the last judgment. The name is generally confined by travellers to the upper part
of the glen. (Others suppose that the name is only an imaginary one, “the valley of the judgment
of Jehovah” referring to some great victories of God’s people in which judgment was executed
upon the heathen; or perhaps, as Keil, etc., to the end of the world.—ED.)
Jehosheba
(Jehovah’s oath), daughter of Joram king of Israel, and wife of jehoiada the high priest. (2 Kings
11:2) Her name in the Chronicles is given Jehoshabeath. (B.C. 882.) As she is called, (2 Kings
11:2) “the daughter of Joram, sister of Ahaziah,” it has been conjectured that she was the daughter,
not of Athaliah, but of Joram by another wife. She is the only recorded instance of the marriage of
a princess of the royal house with a high priest.
Jehoshua
(whose help is Jehovah; Help of Jehovah or savoiur). In this form is given the name of Joshua
in (Numbers 13:16) Once more only the name appears,—as Jehosh’uah.
Jehoshuah
in the genealogy of Ephraim. (1 Chronicles 7:27)
Jehovah
(I am; the eternal living one). The Scripture appellation of the supreme Being, usually interpreted
as signifying self-derived and permanent existence. The Jews scrupulously avoided every mention
of this name of God, substituting in its stead one or other of the words with whose proper
frankie
(Frankie)
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