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Jehozadak in Naves Topical Bible

-Also called JOSEDECH and JOZADAK -A priest of the exile 1Ch 6:14,15; Ezr 3:2,8; 5:2; 10:18; Ne 12:26; Hag 1:1,12,14; 2:2,4; Zec 6:11...

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Jehu in Hitchcock's Bible Names

himself who exists...

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Jehudi in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(a Jew), son of Nethaniah, a man employed by the princes of Jehoiakim's court to fetch Baruch to read Jeremiah's denunciation, Jer 36:14 and then by the king to fetch the volume itself and read it to him. vs. Jer 36:21,23 (B.C. 605.)...

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Jephthah in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(whom God sets free), A judge about B.C. 1143-1137. His history is contained in Jud 11:1 ... 12:8 He was a Gileadite, the son of Gilead and a concubine. Driven by the legitimate sons from his father's inheritance, he went to Tob and became the head of a company of freebooters in a debatable land probably belonging to Ammon. 2Sa 10:6 (This lan...

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Jehozadak in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(Jehovah justifies), usually called Jozadak or Josedech. He was the son of the high priest Seraiah. 1Ch 6:14,15 When his father was slain at Riblah by order of Nebuchadnezzar, 2Ki 25:18,21 Jehozadak was led away captive to Babylon. 1Ch 6:15 (B.C. 588.) He himself never attained the high priesthood, but he was the father of Jeshua the high prie...

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Jehucal in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

je-hu'-kal (yechukhal, probably meaning "Yahweh is able"): A courtier sent by King Zedekiah to Jeremiah to ask the prophet to pray for the king and the people (Jer 37:3). Most versions except Septuagint, with Jer 38:1, have "Jucal" ( yukhal, same meaning)....

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Jehudi in Easton's Bible Dictionary

a Jew, son of Nethaniah. He was sent by the princes to invite Baruch to read Jeremiah's roll to them (Jer. 36:14, 21)....

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Jehoshaphat in Hitchcock's Bible Names

the Lord is judge...

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Jehoshaphat in Easton's Bible Dictionary

Jehovah-judged. (1.) One of David's body-guard (1 Chr. 11:43). (2.) One of the priests who accompanied the removal of the ark to Jerusalem (1 Chr. 15:24). (3.) Son of Ahilud, "recorder" or annalist under David and Solomon (2 Sam. 8:16), a state officer of high rank, chancellor or vizier of the kingdom. (4.) Solomon's purveyor in Issachar ...

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Jephthah in Easton's Bible Dictionary

whom God sets free, or the breaker through, a "mighty man of valour" who delivered Israel from the oppression of the Ammonites (Judg. 11:1-33), and judged Israel six years (12:7). He has been described as "a wild, daring, Gilead mountaineer, a sort of warrior Elijah." After forty-five years of comparative quiet Israel again apostatized, a...

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