5. A Levite named along with Kadmiel as one whose descendants (called '-children" [V inhabitants] of Hoda- viah or Hodeviah), to the number of 74, returned from Babylon (Ezra ii, 40 ; Xeh. vii, 43). 15. C. ante 530. See Nos." 9 and 10.
6. Jeshua (or Joshua as he is called in Hag. i, 1, 12 ; ii, 2, 4; Zech. iii, 1, 3, 6, 8, 9), the " son" of Jozadak or Jozedech, and high-priest of the Jews when they re- turned, under Zerubbabel, from the Babylonian exile (Neh. vii, 7; xii, 1, 7, 10, 2G; Ezra ii, 2; x, 18). B.C. 636. He was doubtless born during the exile. His presence and exhortations greatly promoted the rebuild- ing of the city and Temple (Ezra v, 2). B.C. 520-44G. The altar of tlie latter being tirst erected enabled him to sanctify their labor by the religious ceremonies and of- ferings which thelaw required (Ezra iii, 2, 8,9). .Jeshua joined with Zerubbabel in opposing the machinations of the Samaritans (Ezra iv, 3) ; and he was not found wanting in zeal (comp. Ecclus. xlix, 12) when the works, after having been interrupted, were resumed in the sec- ond year of Darius Hystaspis (Ezra v, 2; Hagg. i, 12). Several of the prophet Haggai's utterances are address- ed to Jeshua (Hagg. i, 1 ; ii, 2), and his name occurs in two of the symbolical prophecies of Zechariah (iii, 1-10 ; vi, 11-15). In the first of these passages, Jeshua, as pontiff, represents the Jewish people covered at first with the garb of slaves, and afterwards with the new and glorious vestures of deliverance. In the second he wears for a moment crowns of silver and gold, as sym- bols of the sacerdotal and regal crowns of Israel, which were to be united on the head of the Jlessiah. — Kitto. See High-priest. He is probably the person alluded to in Ezra ii, 36 ; Neh. vii, 39. See Jkdai.vii.
7. Father of Jozabad, which latter was one of the Levites appointed by Ezra to take charge of the offer- ings for the sacred services (Ezra viii, 33). B.C. ante 459.
8. The father of Ezer, which latter is mentioned as " the ruler of ^lizpah" who repaired part of the walls of Jerusalem after the exile (Neh. iii, 19). B.C. ante 446.
9. A Levite, son of ^Vzaniah (Neh. x, 9), who actively co-operated in the reformation instituted bv Nehemiah (Neh. viii, 7; ix, 4, 5 ; xii, 8). B.C. cir. 410. He was possibly identical with No. 5.
10. Son of Kadmiel, one of the Levites in the Tem- ple on its restoration after the captivity, in the time of Eliashib (Neh. xii, 24). B.C. cir. 406.' Perhaps, how- ever, " son" is here a transcriber's error for " and ;" so that this Jeshua will be the same as No. 5.
11. A city of Judah inhabited after the captivitv, mentioned in connection with Jekabzeel, jMoladah, and other towns in the lowlands of Judah (Neh. xi, 26). According to Schwarz (Palest, p. 116), it is the village Yesiie, near Khulda, five English miles east of Ekron ; doubtless the village Yeshim [locally pronounced Esfi- «■«] seen by Dr. Robinson (new edit, of ^■.■/(airhes, iii, 154, 155), and laid down on Van de Yelde's Map on wady Uhurab, between Zorah and Chesalon.
Jesh'uah (1 Chron. xxiv, 11). See Jeshua, 2.
Jesh'urun (Heb. Yeshurun', '|1"in/), a poetical ap- pellation r)f the people of Israel, used in token of affec- tion and tenderness, occurring four times (Deut. xxxii, 15, Sept. 'laK-oi/j, Vulg. dilechis ; Deut. xxxiii, 5, 26, and Isa. xliv, 2 [A. Vers, in this latter passage " Jesurun"] ; Sept. j)ya7ii)iJ.ivoc, Vulgate rectissiinus). The term is (according to Mercer in Pagnini, Thes. i, p. 1105; Mich, in SuppL, and others) a diminutive (after the form of Zebulun, Jeduthun, etc.) from "iVr^ i. q. "^"C"^ (compare D^b'j and dVu), q. d. rectulus, a '• rightling," i. e. the dear upright people. Aquila, Symmachus, and Theo- dotion have in Isaiah tu^ii^, elsewhere tv5iuTciTu<;; Kimchi says, " Israel is so called as beingjus^ among the nations ;" so also Aben-Ezra and Saadias (in the Pent.) interiiret. Others, as Grotius, understand the word as a diminutive from " Israel" itself, and so apparently the Chald., Syriac, and Saadias (in Isaiah), but against the analogy of derivation. Ilgen {De imhre lapideo, p. 25, and in Paulus, Memoruhil. vi, p. 157) gives a far-fetched derivation from the Arabic, and other fanciful explana- tions may be seen in Jo. Olpius's Diss, de "|1"!'C^ iw^- side Theod. Hasieo, Bremas, 1730). The passages where it is employed seem to express the idea that in the char- acter of rirjhteous Jehovah recognised his people in con- sideration of their covenant relation to him, whereby, while they observed the terms of that covenant, they stood legally justified before him and clean in his sight. It is in this sense that the jjious kings are said to have done id'^il, "that which was right" in the eyes of Je- hovah, i. e. what God approved (1 Kings xi, 34, etc.). — Gesenius ; Kitto.
Jesi'ah (a, 1 Chron. xii, 6 ; &, 1 Chron. xxiii, 20). See IsiiiAH, 2, 4.
Jesim'iel (Heb. Yesimiel', bx'i^"'b% appointed of God ; Sept. 'l(Tjuaj/\), apparently one of the chief Sim- eonites wlio migrated to' the vaOey of Gedor in search of pasture (1 Chron. iv, 36). B.C. cir. 711.