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Smith's Bible Dictionary
Joanna
(grace or gift of God) (in Revised Version spelled Joanan).
•Son of Rhesa, according to the text of (Luke 3:27) and one of the ancestors of Christ; but according
to the view explained in a previous article, son of Zerubbabel, and the same as Hananiah in (1
Chronicles 3:19)
•The name of a woman, occurring twice in (Luke 8:3; 24:10) but evidently denoting the same
person, (A.D. 28-30.) In the first passage she is expressly stated to have been “wife of Chuza,
steward of Herod,” that is, Antipas, tetrarch of Galilee.
Joash
(to whom Jehovah hastens, i.e. to help), contracted from Jehoash.
•Son of Ahaziah king of Judah (B.C. 884), and the only one of his children who escaped the
murderous hand of Athaliah. After his father’s sister Jehoshabeath, the wife of Jehoiada the high
priest, had stolen him from among the king’s sons, he was hidden for six years in the chambers
of the temple. In the seventh year of his age and of his concealment, a successful revolution,
conducted by Jehoiada, placed him on the throne of his ancestors, and freed the country from the
tyranny and idolatries of Athaliah. For at least twenty-three years, while Jehoiada lived, his reign
was very prosperous; but after the death of Jehoiada, Joash fell into the hands of bad advisers, at
whose suggestion he revived the worship of Baal and Ashtaroth. When he was rebuked for this
by Zechariah, the son of Jehoiada, Joash caused him to be stoned to death in the very court of the
Lord’s house. (Matthew 23:35) That very year Hazael king of Syria came up against Jerusalem,
and carried off a vast booty as the price of his departure. Joash had scarcely escaped this danger
when he fell into another and fatal one. Two of his servants conspired against him and slew him
in his bed and in the fortress of Millo. Joash’s reign lasted forty years, from 878 to 838 B.C.
•Son and successor of Jehoahaz on the throne of Israel from B.C. 840 to 825, and for two full years
a contemporary sovereign with the preceding. (2 Kings 14:1) comp. with 2Kin 12:1; 13:10 When
he succeeded to the crown the kingdom was in a deplorable state from the devastations of Hazael
and Ben-hadad, kings of Syria. On occasion of a friendly visit paid by Joash to Elisha on his
death-bed, the prophet promised him deliverance from the Syrian yoke in Aphek, (1 Kings 20:26-30)
He then bade him smite upon the ground, and the king smote thrice and then stayed. The prophet
rebuked him for staying, and limited to three his victories over Syria. Accordingly Joash did defeat
Ben-hadad three times on the field of battle, and recovered from him the cities which Hazael had
taken from Jehoahaz. The other great military event of Joash’s reign was the successful war with
Amaziah king of Judah. He died in the fifteenth year of Amaziah king of Judah.
•The father of Gideon, and a wealthy man among the Abiezrites. (Judges 6:11) (B.C. before 1256.)
•Apparently a younger son of Ahab, who held a subordinate jurisdiction in the lifetime of his father.
(1 Kings 22:26; 2 Chronicles 18:25) (B.C. 896.)
•A descendant of Shelah the son of Judah, but whether his son or the son of Jokim is not clear. (1
Chronicles 4:22)
•A Benjamite, son of Shemaah of Gibeah, (1 Chronicles 12:3) who resorted to David at Ziklag.
•One of the officers of David’s household. (1 Chronicles 27:28)
•Son of Becher and head of a Benjamite house. (1 Chronicles 7:8)
Joatham
= Jotham the son of Uzziah. (Matthew 1:9)
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