Dictionary entry

Jehozabad

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

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

(1) A servant of King Jehoash of Judah. According to2Ki 12:21(22), he was a son of Shomer, but2Ch 24:26makes 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).