Jojada
Jojada ( Hebrew יְהֹויָדָע' jəhôjādā' ) is the name of several people mentioned in various history books of the Old Testament of the Bible .
Father Benajas
In the second book of Samuel 8, 18 LUT is Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, in command of the Cherethites and Pelethites (that is, the foreign, mainly from Philistines existing mercenaries) in the army King David called. Jojada is also mentioned as the father of Benaiah in 2 Samuel 23: 20-22 LUT and several times in 1 Kings 2 EU , where it is also reported that King Solomon finally appointed Benaja to be the leader of the entire army.
priest
In the 2nd Book of Kings , Chapter 11, EU, tells how Queen Atalja seized power in Judah . In addition, they exterminated almost the entire royal family. Only Joasch , the son of the dead King Ahaziah , was able to be hidden in the temple by his aunt Joscheba and thus survived. In the seventh year the priest Jehoiada showed the captains of the bodyguards the son of the king and swore them by an oath. As a result Atalja was overthrown and killed. Joash was crowned by Jehoiada to the king, bringing the Davidic monarchy was restored and patronized by Athaliah Baal worship was eliminated. Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD the king and the people, which was supposed to prevent the high-handed exercise of power in the future.
During Jojada's lifetime Joash acted according to the will of God. But after the priest died at the old age of one hundred and thirty and was buried with the kings in the City of David, Joash quickly strayed from the right path. He even had Jojada's son Zechariah, who was calling for repentance, murdered ( 2nd Chronicle 24 EU ). 2. Chronicles 22, 11 KJV also reports that Jehoiada was Josheba’s husband.
Advisor to the king
In 1st Chronicles 27, 34 LUT it is reported that a Jehoiada, the son of Benaiah, together with Abiatar followed Ahitofel as an advisor to King David. Ahitofel had committed suicide after the failed uprising of Absalom ( 2 Samuel 17.23 EU ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stuttgart Explanatory Bible. 2nd Edition. German Bible Society , Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-438-01121-2 , p. 485