Smith's Bible Dictionary

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(lofty), one of the cities on the east of Jordan which were built and fortified by the tribe of Gad
when they took possession of their territory. (Numbers 32:35)
Jogli
(led into exile), the father of Bukki, a Danite chief. (Numbers 34:22)
Joha
(Jehovah gives life).
•One of the sons of Beriah the Benjamite. (1 Chronicles 8:16) (B.C. 588 or 536.)
•The Tizite, one of David’s guard. (1 Chronicles 11:45) (B.C. 1046.)
Johanan
(gift or grace of God).
•Son of Azariah and grandson of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok, and father of Azariah, 3. (1 Chronicles
6:9,10) Authorized Version.
•Son of Elioenai, the son of Neariah, the son of Shemaiah, in the line of Zerubbabel’s heirs. ( 1
Chronicles 3:24) (B.C. after 406.)
•The son of Kaereah, and one of the captains of the scattered remnants of the army of Judah, who
escaped in the final attack upon Jerusalem by the Chaldeans. (B.C. 588.) After the murder of
Gedaliah, Johanan was one of the foremost in the pursuit of his assassin, and rescued the captives
he had carried off from Mizpah. (Jeremiah 41:11-16) Fearing the vengeance of the Chaldeans, the
captains, with Johanan at their head, notwithstanding the warnings of Jeremiah, retired into Egypt.
•The first-born son of Josiah king of Judah. (1 Chronicles 3:15) (B.C. 638-610.)
•A valiant Benjamite who joined David at Ziklag. (1 Chronicles 12:4) (B.C. 1055.)
•A Gadite warrior who followed David. (1 Chronicles 12:12)
•The father of Azariah, an Ephraimite in the time of Ahaz. (2 Chronicles 28:12)
•The son of Hakkatan, and chief of the Bene-Azgad who returned with Ezra. (Ezra 8:12)
•The son of Eliashib, one of the chief Levites. (Ezra 10:6; Nehemiah 12:23)
•The son of Tobiah the Ammonite. (Nehemiah 6:18)
John
the same name as Johanan, a contraction of Jehoanan, Jehovah’s gift.
•One of the high priest’s family, who, with Annas and Caiaphas, sat in judgment upon the apostles
Peter and John. (Acts 6:6)
•The Hebrew name of the evangelist Mark. (Acts 12:12,25; 13:5,13; 15:37)
John The Apostle
was the son of Zebedee, a fisherman on the Lake of Galilee, and of Salome, and brother of
James, also an apostle. Peter and James and John come within the innermost circle of their Lord’s
friends; but to John belongs the distinction of being the disciple whom Jesus loved. He hardly
sustains the popular notion, fostered by the received types of Christian art, of a nature gentle,
yielding, feminine. The name Boanerges, (Mark 3:17) implies a vehemence, zeal, intensity, which
gave to those who had it the might of sons of thunder. [James] The three are with our Lord when
none else are, in the chamber of death, (Mark 5:37) in the glory of the transfiguration, (Matthew
17:1) when he forewarns them of the destruction of the holy city, (Mark 13:3) in the agony of
Gethsemane. When the betrayal is accomplished, Peter and John follow afar off. (John 18:15) The
personal acquaintance which exited between John and Caiaphas enables him to gain access to the
council chamber, praetorium of the Roman procurator. (John 18:16,19,28) Thence he follows to
the place of crucifixion, and the Teacher leaves to him the duty of becoming a son to the mother

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