Jeho'adah (Heb. Yehodddah', iT^i'in';', Jehovah is his ornament ; Sept. 'liDia^a v. r. 'laca), son of Ahaz, and father of Alemeth and others of the descendants of Saul through Mophibosheth (1 Chron. viii, 36), called Jaraii (n'l"||', Yarah', dropping of honey, as in 1 Sam. xiv, 27, othervvise woodsman, but more probably a cur- rui)t reading for iT^r][', Yuhda', i. q. Jehoadtih ; Sept. \a3c'(, Yulg. Jai-a) in the parallel passage (1 Chron. ix, 42). B.C. considerably post 1037.
Jehoad'dan (Heb. Yehoaddan', 'i'^i'liT', i. q. Jcho- adah; Sept. 'Imavh), a female of Jerusalem, mother of king Amaziah, and consequently wife of king Jchoash, whom she appears to have survived (1 Kings xiv, 2 ; 2 Chron. xxv, 1 ; in the former of which passages the text has "p'\l?'in^, Yehoaddin'). Her character may per- haps be infen-ed from the partially good conduct of her son. B.C. 862-837.
Jeho'ahaz (Heb. Yehodchaz', TtlNitl^, Jehovah is his holder, i. e. sustainer ; Sept. 'leucixaZ ; written also in the contracted form fH^I'') Yoachaz', 2 Kings xiv, 1 ; 2 Chron. xxxvi, 2, 4 ; Sept. 'lojcixa^; A. Y. " Jchoahaz"), the name of three kings. See also Joahaz.
1. One of the names of the youngest son of Jehoram of Judah (2 Chron. xxi, 17, Sept. 'Oxo^lai), and father of Josiah (2 Chron. xxv, 23, Sept. 'IwdxaZ) ; usually called Ahaziaii (ii.v.).
2. The son anel successor of Jehu, the twelfth sepa- rate king of Israel (2 Kings x, 35). He reigned seven- teen years, B.C. 855-838 (Josephus 'licaZoc, Aid. ix, 8, 5). As he followed the evil courses of the hou.se of Jer- oboam, the Syrians, under Hazael and Bcnhadad, were suffered to prevail over him ; so that at length he had emly left, of all his forces, fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and 10,000 foot. Overwhelmed by his calamities. Jcho- ahaz at length ackne)wledged the authority of Jehovah over Israel, anel humbled himself before him, in coni^iel- eration of which a deliverer was raised up for Israel in the person of Jehcjash, this king's yon (B.C. 841, whence the latter's viceroyship is dated, 2 Kings xiii, 10), whii was enabled to expel the Syrians and rc-cetablish the affairs of the kingdom (2 Kings xiii, 1-9, 25). See Is->
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3. The third of the four sons of Josiah by Hamutal, born B.C. 632, originally calleel Shallum, seventeenth separate king over Judah for three months only, B.C. 609 (Josephus 'luidxa'iog, A nt. x, 5, 2). After his father had been slain in resisting the progress of Pharaoh-ne- cho, Jehoahaz, who was then twenty-three years of age, was raised to the throne by the people in preference to his elder brother Jehoiakim (2 Kings xxiii, 31, 36), and received at Jerusalem the regal anointing, which seems
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to have been usuaUy omitted in times of order and of regular succession (the oldest brother, Johanan [1 Chron. iii"l5], having apparently died without issue, and Zede- kiah being yet too young [2 Chron. xxvi, 11]). He found the land fuU of trouble, but free from idolatry. Instead, however, of following the excellent example of his father, Jehoahaz fell into the accustomed crimes of his predecessors, and, mider the encouragements which his example or indifference offered, the idols soon reap- peared. He is therefore described by his contempora- ries as an evU-doer (2 Kings xxiii,32) and an oppressor (Ezek. xix, 3), and such is his traditional character in Josephus {Ant. x, 5, 2) ; but his deposition seems to have been lamented by the people (Jer. xxii, 10 ; Ezek. xix, 1). Pharaoh-necho, on his victorious return from the Euphrates, thinking it politic to reject a king not nom- inated by himself, removed him from the throne, and set thereon his brother Jehoiakim. The deposed king was at first; taken as a prisoner to Riblah, in Syria, but was eventually carried to Egypt, where he died (2 Kings xxiii, 30-35 ; 2 Chron. xxxvi, 1-4; 1 Chron. iii, 15 ; Jer. xxii, 10, 12). See Prideaux, Connection, an. 610 ; Ewald, Gesch. Isr. iii, 719 ; RosenmuUer, Schol. in Jer. xxii, 11.
See JUDAH, KINGDOM OF.
Jeho'ash (Heb. Yekodsh', dXTl"', Jehovah-given ; in most of the passages in 2 Kings only ; more usually in the contracted form Yodsh', Tl'xi", " Joash," Sept. 'lojdc, Josephus 'Iwaaog), the name of two kings. See also Joash.
1, The son of king Ahaziah by Libnah of Beersheba, was born B.C. 884 ; made king at the age of seven years, and reigned eighth over the separated khigdom of Ju- dah forty years, B.C. 877-837. Jehoash, when an in- fant, was secretly saved by his aunt Jehoshebath, who was married to the high-priest Jehoiada, from the gen- eral massacre of the family by Athaliah, who had usnrj]- ed the throne. See Jehoiada. Jehoram having him- self killed all his own brethren, and all his sons, except Ahaziah, having been killed by the irruption of the Philistines and Arabians, and all Ahaziah's remoter re- lations having been slain by Jehu, and now all his sons being put to death by Athaliah (2 Chron. xxi, 4, 17 ; xxii, 1, 8, 9, 10), the house of David was reduced to the lowest ebb, and Jehoash appears to have been the only surviving descendant of Solomon. By the high-priest and his wife the child was privately brought up in the chambers connected with the Temple till he was in his eighth year, when Jehoiada deemed that the state of affairs required him to produce the youthful heir of the throne to the people, and claim for him the crown which his grandmother had so unrighteously usurped. Find- ing the influential persons -whom he consulted favorable to the design, everything was secretly but admirably arranged for producing Jehoash, and investing him with the regalia, in such a manner that Athaliah could have no suspicion of the event till it actually occiured. On the day appointed, the sole surviving scion of David's illustrious house appeared in the place of the kings, by a particular pillar in the Temple court, and was crowned and anointed with the usual ceremonies. The high- wrought enthusiasm of the spectators then found vent in clapping of hands and exulting shouts of " Long live the king !" The joyful uproar was heard even in the palace, and brought Athaliah to the Temple, from which, at a word from Jehoiada, she was led to her death. See Athaliah.