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JOZABAD

(Heb. yôzāḇāḏ)

1. A Benjaminite from Gederah who joined David at Ziklag (1 Chr. 12:4[MT 5]).

2.-3. Two men of Manasseh, chiefs of thousands, who joined David at Ziklag (1 Chr. 12:20[21]).

4. One of the overseers of the temple offerings appointed by Hezekiah during his temple reform (2 Chr. 31:13). The name here may represent the Chronicler’s anachronistic attempt to link Hezekiah’s reform with that of Ezra and Nehemiah (cf. Ezra 8:33).

5. A Levite who contributed animals to Josiah’s great Passover (2 Chr. 35:7; cf. 2 Kgs. 23:21-23).

6. A son of the priestly family of Passhur who lived in Judea and who divorced his foreign wife according to Ezra’s reform (Ezra 10:22; named Gedaliah in 1 Esdr. 9:22).

The following entries may refer to the same person or to as many as four different people.

7. A son of Jeshua the Levite; an overseer of the temple treasury (Ezra 8:33 = 1 Esdr. 8:69).

8. A Levite who divorced his foreign wife according to Ezra’s reform (Ezra 10:23 = 1 Esdr. 9:23).

9. One of the 13 Levites who “gave the sense” of Ezra’s reading of the law (Neh. 8:7-8). If this person served as an overseer of the “work outside the house of God” (Neh. 11:16), then he served under both Ezra and Nehemiah (cf. 1 Esdr. 9:48).

C. Mack Roark

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JOZABAD

Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)