(b) The death of Jehoiakim is veiled in obscurity. According to the prophecy (Jer 22'*- '" 36*'), his dead body lay un buried outside the walls of Jerusalem ; and this is confirmed by 2 K 24', which is silent as to liis burial. Jos. [Ant. X. vi. 3) says that Nebuchadnezzar, when admitted without resistance into Jerusalem by J., slew him, and 'commanded him to be thrown before the walls without any burial,' and took 3000 captives, in- cluding Ezekiel (cf. Jer 52'') ; but Nebuchadnezzar did not arrive until after J.'s death. We may conjecture that J. was killed in a sally (Keil), or more probably assassinated by his indignant sub- jects. The LXX of 2 Ch 36», which is here very strange, says that he was buried in the garden of Uzza (cf. 2 K 21'«- »). The idea that he was brought captive to Babylon rests on 2 Ch 36", which is either a false inference from Dn P, or refers to an onfullilled intention of Nebuchadnezzar's on his firtt invasion, or to Ezk I9''' ", which, as we have •een, refers to Jehoiachin, although the preceding details refer to his father. Jerome (Qu. lleb. 2 Ch 36') e^ plains ' that which was found in him ' (1 Es 1*" 'his uncleanness and impiety') to refer to heathenish marks (forbidden Lv 19^) discovered on his dead body. See Cuttings in the Fle.sii, Tol. i. p. SSS''. The legend mentioned by Tlienius on 2 K 24' (Stanley, Jewish Ch. 40), that the name of the demon Chodonazer was found on his skin, is merely due to a MS confusion of this note with that on 2 Ch 36'°, where Jerome explains the name Nabu-chodonosor. N. J. D. WHITE.
JEHOIARIB (D-i^T 1 Ch O'" 24', elsewhere Joiarib, 2-y\' 'J' pleadeth'; called in 1 Mac 2'
Joarib [which see]). — The name of one of the twenty-four courses of priests ; first in David's time (1 Ch 24'), but seventeenth in the time of Zerubbabel (Xeh 12*) and of the high prie.st Joiakim (Noli 12"). The name is omitted, prob- ably by accident, in the list of the priests that 'sealed to the covenant' (Neh 10). 'The clan is mentioned among those that dwelt in Jerusalem in the time of Nehemiah (ll'°), where read ' Jedaiah and Joiarib ' as in the corresnonding list 1 Ch 9'" (so Cappellus and H. E. liyle). The Maccabees belonged to this clan (1 Mac 2' ; Jos. Ant. XJI. vi. 1), and also Josephus (Life 1). The Babylonian Tahnud substitutes 'Joiarib' for ' Uarim ' in Ezr 2™= Neh 7*".
N. J. D. White. JEHONADAB (nij'T or Jonadab ^liV ' he wliom J' has impelled'; cf. Ncdabiah and Nadab). — 1. Son of Shimeah, DaWd's brother, and the friend of Amaon the son of David. He is described as ' a very subtil man' (i.-fD c;ri &t<), and he employed his ingenuity in aiding Amnon to carry out his intrigue ag.amst his half-sist€r Tamar (2 S 13"). When, at the assa.s.sination of Aranon, an exagger- ated report readied the ear of DaWd to the ell'ect that Absalom had slain all the king's sons, Jonadab was the first to gra-sp the true state of all'airs, and to allay the king's distress by his prompt report of the safety ol the royal princes (2S IS""). Both AV and RV give his name uniformly as Jonadab, although in v.» the MT has 3-;;in; Jehonadab. 2. Son of Rechab, of the clan of tlie Kenites (1 Cli 2"), and formulator of the rules wliicli bound his descendants, the Rechabit«s, to retain a nomadic life, living in tents and abstain- ing from the pursuit of agriculture, and especially from the cultivation of the vine and the u.se of its produce (Jer 35 ; see Rechabites). Jehonadab nourished at the time when Jehu, having seized the throne of the Northern Kingdom, was under- taking the extirpation from Israel of the foreign worship of Ba'al-melVart. He appears to have been thoroughly in sympathy with the measures adopted by Jehu for tlie vindication of the religion of J ", and he exhibited his sympathy by giving his hand to the new king, and accompanying Turn in his chariot to witness the final destruction of the family of Ahab at Samaria, and the ruse by which the worshippers of Ba'al were entrapped and put to death (2 K 10'»-='). Both AV and RV have Jonadab in all the passages of Jer, although that is the reading of MT (a-jji-) only in 35«' '»• ".
C. F. BlTRNEV.
JEHONATHAN (ipjV-i; 'J' has given').— A more exact renderin-; of the name usually represented in English as Jonathan. In RV this form occurs twice. 1. 2 Ch 17'. One of the Levites sent out by Jeboshaphat with the book of the law to teach the people in the cities of Judah. 2. Neh 12". The head of the priestly family of She- maiah in the days of Joiakim tue son of Jeshua. Here the longer form serves to distinguish this name from the shorter Jonathan = |pii" in vv. "• ". In AV Jehonathan is found also in 1 Ch 27" of the son of Uzziah, who was over certain treasuries or storehouses in the time of David (RV Jona- than). H. A. White.
JEHORAM or JORAM (c-)Vt, o-j'i' 'J" is exalted'). RV retains Joram for .Ichoram, 2 K 9"'*'.