Easton's Bible Dictionary

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  • JEHOVAH-JIREH Jehovah will see; i.e., will provide, the name given by
    Abraham to the scene of his offering up the ram which was caught in the
    thicket on Mount Moriah. The expression used in Genesis 22:14, “in the
    mount of the Lord it shall be seen,” has been regarded as equivalent to the
    saying, “Man’s extremity is God’s opportunity.”

  • JEHOVAH-NISSI Jehovah my banner, the title given by Moses to the
    altar which he erected on the hill on the top of which he stood with
    uplifted hands while Israel prevailed over their enemies the Amalekites
    (Exodus 17:15).

  • JEHOVAH-SHALOM Jehovah send peace, the name which Gideon gave
    to the altar he erected on the spot at Ophrah where the angel appeared to
    him (Judges 6:24).

  • JEHOVAH-SHAMMAH Jehovah is there, the symbolical title given by
    Ezekiel to Jerusalem, which was seen by him in vision (Ezekiel 48:35). It
    was a type of the gospel Church.

  • JEHOVAH-TSIDKENU Jehovah our rightousness, rendered in the
    Authorized Version, “The LORD our righteousness,” a title given to the
    Messiah (Jeremiah 23:6, marg.), and also to Jerusalem (33:16, marg.).

  • JEHOZABAD Jehovah-given. (1.) The son of Obed-edom (1 Chronicles
    26:4), one of the Levite porters.


(2.) The son of Shomer, one of the two conspirators who put king Jehoash
to death in Millo in Jerusalem (2 Kings 12:21).


(3.) 2 Chronicles 17:18.



  • JEHOZADAK Jehovah-justified, the son of the high priest Seraiah at the
    time of the Babylonian exile (1 Chronicles 6:14, 15). He was carried into
    captivity by Nebuchadnezzar, and probably died in Babylon. He was the
    father of Jeshua, or Joshua, who returned with Zerubbabel.

  • JEHU Jehovah is he. (1.) The son of Obed, and father of Azariah (1
    Chronicles 2:38).


(2.) One of the Benjamite slingers that joined David at Ziklag (1 Chronicles
12:3).

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