Jehoz'abad (Heb. Yehozabad', "isrin^ Jehovah- given; Sept. 'I(t)sa/3a^, but 'iwt^nfiiS in 2 Chron. xxiv, 26), the name of three men. See also Jozabad,
1. The second son of Obed-edom (q. v.), the Levitical gate-keeper of the Temple (1 Chron. xx\i, 4). B.C. 1014.
2. The last-named of Jehoshaphat's generals (.Jose- phus '0;^(')/3«70c, Ant, viii, 15, 2) in command of (?) 180,000 troops (2 Chron. xvii, 18). B.C. cir. 910.
3. Son of Shomer (or Shimrith, a IMoabitess), one of the two servants who assassinated king Jehoash of Ju- dah in tliat ]iart of the city of Jerusalem called Jlillo (2 Kings xii, 21 ; 2 Chron. xxiv, 26). B.C. 837.
Jehoz'adak (Ileb. Yehotsadak', p'lS'in^, .Teho- vah-justijied ; Sept. 'Iwatc'iK; Auth. Vers. "Josedech" in Hag. and Zech.), also in the contracted form Joza- DAK (p"i;ST^, Yotsadak', in Ezra and Neh. ; Sept. 'Iw- mceK), the son of the high-priest Seraiah at the time of the Babylonian captivity (1 Chron. vi, 14, 15). Al- though he succeeded to the high-priesthood after the slaughter of his father at Riblah (2 Kings xxv, 18-21), he had no opportunity of performing the functions of his office (Selden, De success, in Pont, in Opp. ii, 104). He was carried into captivity by Neduchadnczzar (1 Chron. vi, 15), and evidently died in exile, as. on the return from the captivity, his son Joshua was the first high-priest who othciated (Hag. i, 1, 12, 14; ii, 2, 4; Zech. vi, 11; Ezra iii, 2, 8; v, 2; x, 18; Neh. xii, 26). B.C. 588. See High-priest.
Je'hu (Heb. Yehu', X'i^.1', according to Gesenius for X'ln^n^ i. q. NWin^. Jehovah is He; but according to Flirst from X^tl^nin. to live, q. d. the living; Sept. 'lov, 'li]ov, but 'lovca in Hos. i, 4), the name of five
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1. Son of Obed and father of Azariali, of the tribe of Judah (1 Chroii. ii, 38). B.C. post. 1612.
2. An Antothite, one of the Benjamite slingers that joined David's band at Ziklag (1 Chron. xii, 3). B.C. 1055.
3. The son of Hanani, a prophet (Josephus I?;ot'e, Ant. viii, 12, 3) of Judah, but whose ministrations were chiefly tlirected to Israel. His father was probably the seer who suifered for having rebuked Asa (2 Chron. xvi, 7). He must have begun his career as a prophet when very young. He first denounced upon Baasha, king of Israel, and his house the same awful doom which haii been akeady executed upon the house of Jeroboam (1 Ivings xvi, 1,7); a sentence which was literally ful- filled (ver. 12). The same prophet was, many years after, commissioned to reprove Jehoshaphat for his dan- gerous connection with the house of Ahab (2 Chron. xix, 2). He appears to have been the public chronicler during the entire reign of Jehoshaphat, and a volume of his records is expressly referred to (2 Chron. xx, 84). B.C. 928-886.
4. The eleventh king of the separate throne of Israel (Josephus 'hjoitc, Ant. viii, 13, 7), and founder of its fourtli dynasty; he reigned twenty-eight years, B.C. 883-855 "(2 Kings ix, x; 2 Chron. xxii, 7-9). His his- tory was told in the lost " Chronicles of the Kings of Israel" (2 Kings x, 84). His father's name was Jehosh- aphat (2 Kings ix, 2) ; his grandfather's (which, as be- ing better known, was sometimes affixed to his own— 2 Kings ix) was Nimshi. In his youth he had been one of the guards of Ahab. His first appearance in history is when, with a comrade in arms, Bidkar, or Bar-Dakar (Ephraem Syrus, Opj^ iv, 540), he rode (either in a sep- arate chariot, Sept., or on the same seat, Josephus) be- hind Ahab on the fatal journey from Samaria to Jez- reel, and heard, and laid up in his heart, the warning of Elijah against the murderer of Naboth (2 Kings ix, 25). But he had already, as it would seem, been known to Elijah as a youth of promise, and, accordingly, in the vision at Horeb he is mentioned as the future king of Israel, whom Elijah is to anoint as the minister of ven- geance on Israel (1 Kings xix, 16, 17). This injunction, for reasons unknown to us, Elijah never fulfilled. It was reserved long afterwards for his successor Elisha. See AnAa
Jehu meantime, in the reigns of Ahaziah and Jeho- ram, had risen to importance. The same activity and vehemence which had fitted him for his earlier distinc- tions still continued, and he was known far and wide as a charioteer whose rajiid driving, as if of a madman (2 Kings ix, 21), could be distinguished even from a dis- tance. Accordingly, in the reign of Jehoram, Jehu held a command in the Israelitish army posted at Ka- moth-gilcad to hold in check the Syrians, who of late years had made strenuous efforts to extend their fron- tier to the Jordan, and had possessed themselves of much of the territory of the Israelites east of that river. The contest was, in fact, still carried on which had begun many j-ears before in the reign of Ahab, Jehoram's fa- ther, who had lost his life in battle before this very Ra- motli-gilead. Ahaziah, king of Judah, had taken part with Jehoram, king of Israel, in this war; and as the latter liad been severely wounded in a recent action, and had gone to Jezreel to be healed of his wounds, Ahaziah had also gone thither on a visit of sympathy to him (2 Kings viii, 28, 29). B.C. 883. According to Ephraem Syrus (who omits the words "saith the Lord" in 2 Kings ix, 26, and makes " I" refer to Jehu), he had, in a dream the night before, seen the blood of Naboth and his sons (Ephr. Syr. 0pp. iv, 540). In this state of affairs, a council of war was held among the military commanders in camp, when, very unexpectedly, a youth of wild appearance (2 Kings ix, 11), known by his garb to be one of the disciples of the proplicts. appcaretl at the door of the tent, and called forth J< lin. dcdaring that he had a message to deliver to him (2 Kings ix, 1- 5). They retired into a secret chamber. Tlie youth