Dictionaries :: Jehozabad

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Jehozabad:

Jehovah-given. (1.) The son of Obed-edom (1Ch 26:4), one of the Levite porters.

(2.) The son of Shomer, one of the two conspirators who put king Jehoash to death in Millo in Jerusalem (2Ki 12:21).

(3.) 2Ch 17:18.

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Jehozabad:

the Lord's dowry; having a dowry

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Jehozabad:

je-hoz'-a-bad (yehozabhadh, "Yahweh has bestowed"):

(1) A servant of King Jehoash of Judah. According to 2Ki 12:21 (22), he was a son of Shomer, but 2Ch 24:26 makes him "son of Shimrith the Moabitess."

(2) A Korahite doorkeeper, son of Obed-edom (1Ch 26:4).

(3) A Benjamite, one of King Jehoshaphat's warriors (2Ch 17:18).

Nave's Topical Bible

Jehozabad: 1. Son of Shomer

And one of the assassins of king Jehoash,

2Ki 12:21; 2Ch 24:26.

Jehozabad: 2. Son of Obed-Edom

1Ch 26:4

Jehozabad: 3. A Benjamite Chief

Who commanded one-hundred and eighty thousand men,

2Ch 17:18.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Jehozabad:

(whom Jehovah gave).

(1.) A Korhite Levite, second son of Obed‐edom, and one of the porters of the south gate of the temple and of the storehouse there in the time of David (1 Chronicles 26:4; 26:15 compared with Nehemiah 12:25). (B.C. 1014)

(2.) A Benjamite, captain of 180,000 armed men, in the days of King Jehoshaphat (2 Chronicles 17:18). (B.C. 910)

(3.) Son of Shomer or Shimrith, a Moabitish woman, who with another conspired against King Joash and slew him in his bed (2 Kings 2:21; 2 Chronicles 24:26). (B.C. 837)