Smith's Bible Dictionary

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JEHORAM

(whom Jehovah has exalted).Son of Ahab king of Israel, who succeeded his brother Ahaziah B.C. 896, and died B.C. 884. The alliance between the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, comm...

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JEHOSHABEATH

(whose oath is Jehovah). (2 Chronicles 22:11) [See JEHOSHEBA]

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JEHOSHAPHAT

(whom Jehovah judges.)King of Judah, son of Asa, succeeded to the throne B.C. 914, when he was 35 years old, and reigned 25 years. His history is to be found among the events re...

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JEHOSHAPHAT, VALLEY OF

(valley of the judgment of Jehovah), a valley mentioned by Joel only, as the spot in which, after the return of Judah and Jerusalem from captivity, Jehovah would gather all the ...

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JEHOSHEBA

(Jehovah’s oath), daughter of Joram king of Israel, and wife of jehoiada the high priest. (2 Kings 11:2) Her name in the Chronicles is given JEHOSHABEATH. (B.C. 882.) As she is ...

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JEHOSHUA

(whose help is Jehovah; Help of Jehovah or savoiur). In this form is given the name of Joshua in (Numbers 13:16) Once more only the name appears, --as Jehosh’uah.

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JEHOSHUAH

in the genealogy of Ephraim. (1 Chronicles 7:27)

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JEHOVAH

(I am; the eternal living one). The Scripture appellation of the supreme Being, usually interpreted as signifying self-derived and permanent existence. The Jews scrupulously avo...

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JEHOVAHJIREH

(Jehovah will see or provide), the name given by Abraham to the place on which he had been commanded to offer Isaac, to commemorate the interposition of the angel of Jehovah, wh...

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JEHOVAHNISSI

(Jehovah my banner), the name given by Moses to the altar which he built in commemoration of the discomfiture of the Amalekites. (Exodus 17:15)

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JEHOVAHSHALOM

(Jehovah (is) peace), or, with an ellipsis, "Jehovah the God of peace." The altar erected by Gideon in Orphrah was so called in memory of the salutation addressed to him by the ...

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JEHOZABAD

(whom Jehovah gave).A Korhite Levite, second son of Obed-edom, and one of the porters of the south gate of the temple and of the storehouse there in the time of David. (1 Chroni...

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JEHOZADAK

(Jehovah justifies), usually called Jozadak or Josedech. He was the son of the high priest Seraiah. (1 Chronicles 6:14,15) When his father was slain at Riblah by order of Nebuch...

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JEHU

(the living).The founder of the fifth dynasty of the kingdom of Israel, son of Jehoshaphat. (2 Kings 9:2) He reigned over Israel 28 years, B.C. 884-856. His first appearance in ...

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JEHUBBAH

(protected), a man of Asher, son of Shamer or Shomer, of the house of Beriah. (1 Chronicles 7:34) (B.C. perhaps about 1450.)

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JEHUCAL

(able), son of Shelemiah; one of two persons sent by King Zedekiah to Jeremiah to entreat his prayers and advice. (Jeremiah 37:3) (B.C. 589.)

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JEHUD

(praised), one of the towns of the tribe of Dan, (Joshua 19:45) named between Baalath and Bene-berak.

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JEHUDI

(a Jew), son of Nethaniah, a man employed by the princes of Jehoiakim’s court to fetch Baruch to read Jeremiah’s denunciation, (Jeremiah 36:14) and then by the king to fetch the...

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JEHUDIJAH

(the Jewess). There is really no such name in the Hebrew Bible as that which our Authorized Version exhibits at (1 Chronicles 4:18) If it is a proper name at all, it is Ha-jehud...

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JEHUSH

(to whom God hastens), son of eshek, a remote descendant of Saul. (1 Chronicles 8:39)

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JEIEL

(treasured of God).A Reubenite of the house of Joel. (1 Chronicles 5:7)A Merarite Levite, one of the gate-keepers to the sacred tent. (1 Chronicles 15:18) His duty was also to p...

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JEKABZEEL

(what God gathers), a fuller form of the name of KABZEEL, the most remote city of Judah on the southern frontier. (Nehemiah 11:25)

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JEKAMIAH

(whom Jehovah gathers), son of Shallum, in the line of Ahlai. (1 Chronicles 2:41) (B.C. about 588.)

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JEKUTHIEL

a man recorded in the genealogies of Judah. (1 Chronicles 4:18)

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JEMIMA

(dove), the eldest of the three daughters born to Job after the restoration of his prosperity. (Job 42:14)

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JEMUEL

(day of God), the eldest son of Simeon. (Genesis 46:10; Exodus 6:15) (B.C. 1706.)

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JEPHTHAE

(whom God sets free), (Hebrews 11:32) the Greek form of the name JEPHTHAH.