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Jozachar

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

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(Heb. Yozakar', יוֹזָכָר, Jehovah-remembered; Sept. Ι᾿ωσαβάδ v.r. Ι᾿ωζαχάρ ), the son of Shimeath, an Ammonitess, one of the two servants who assassinated Jehoash, king of Judah, in Millo (2 Kings 12:21). In the parallel passage (2 Chronicles 24:26) the name is erroneously written ZABAD. B.C. 837. "It is uncertain whether their conspiracy was prompted by a personal feeling of revenge for the death of Zechariah, as Josephus intimates (Ant. 9, 8, 4), or whether they were urged to it by the family of Jehoiada. The care. of the chronicler to show that they were of foreign descent seems almost intended to disarm a suspicion that the king's assassination was an act of priestly vengeance. But it is more likely that the conspiracy had a different origin altogether, and that the king's murder was regarded by the chronicler as an instance of divine retribution. On the accession of Amaziah the conspirators were executed."

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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Jozachar'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tce/​j/jozachar.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
 
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