- JOZACHAR Jehovah-remembered, one of the two servants who
assassinated Jehoash, the king of Judah, in Millo (2 Kings 12:21). He is
called also Zabad (2 Chronicles 24:26). - JUBAL jubilee, music, Lamech’s second son by Adah, of the line of Cain.
He was the inventor of “the harp” (Hebrews kinnor, properly “lyre”) and
“the organ” (Hebrews ‘ugab, properly “mouth-organ” or Pan’s pipe),
Genesis 4:21. - JUBILEE a joyful shout or clangour of trumpets, the name of the great
semi-centennial festival of the Hebrews. It lasted for a year. During this
year the land was to be fallow, and the Israelites were only permitted to
gather the spontaneous produce of the fields (Leviticus 25:11, 12). All
landed property during that year reverted to its original owner (13-34;
27:16-24), and all who were slaves were set free (25:39-54), and all debts
were remitted.
The return of the jubilee year was proclaimed by a blast of trumpets which
sounded throughout the land. There is no record in Scripture of the actual
observance of this festival, but there are numerous allusions (Isaiah 5:7, 8,
9, 10; 61:1, 2; Ezekiel 7:12, 13; Nehemiah 5:1-19; 2 Chronicles 36:21)
which place it beyond a doubt that it was observed.
The advantages of this institution were manifold. “1. It would prevent the
accumulation of land on the part of a few to the detriment of the
community at large. 2. It would render it impossible for any one to be born
to absolute poverty, since every one had his hereditary land. 3. It would
preclude those inequalities which are produced by extremes of riches and
poverty, and which make one man domineer over another. 4. It would
utterly do away with slavery. 5. It would afford a fresh opportunity to
those who were reduced by adverse circumstances to begin again their
career of industry in the patrimony which they had temporarily forfeited.
- It would periodically rectify the disorders which crept into the state in
the course of time, preclude the division of the people into nobles and
plebeians, and preserve the theocracy inviolate.”
- JUDA (1.) The patriarch Judah, son of Jacob (Luke 3:33; Hebrews 7:14).
In Luke 1:39; Hebrews 7:14; Revelation 5:5; 7:5, the word refers to the
tribe of Judah.
(2.) The father of Simeon in Christ’s maternal ancestry (Luke 3:30).