3 others in the registry answer to the name Jehoiada. Every Jehoiada in the Bible
- verses
- 26
- first named
- 2 Kings 11:4
- last named
- Matthew 23:35
- period
- Divided Monarchy
- tribe
- Levi
Description
Who was Jehoiada?
Jehoiada, also referred to as Barachiah in Mat.23.35, was a high priest during the reign of King Joash of Judah. He played a crucial role in preserving the Davidic lineage and restoring the worship of Yahweh in Judah.
When Athaliah, the mother of the deceased king Ahaziah, seized the throne and ordered the execution of all the royal heirs, Jehoiada and his wife Jehosheba rescued the infant Joash and hid him in the temple for six years (2Ki.11.1-3; 2Ch.22.11-12). In the seventh year, Jehoiada gathered the military leaders and Levites, revealing the existence of the rightful heir and orchestrating a coup against Athaliah (2Ki.11.4-12; 2Ch.23.1-11). Joash was crowned king, and Athaliah was executed (2Ki.11.13-16; 2Ch.23.12-15).
During Joash's reign, Jehoiada served as his advisor and guided him in the ways of the Lord (2Ki.12.2). Jehoiada also initiated repairs to the temple and oversaw the collection of funds for this purpose (2Ki.12.7-16; 2Ch.24.4-14). He died at the age of 130 and was buried among the kings in the City of David, a testament to his significant role in the history of Judah (2Ch.24.15-16).
After Jehoiada's death, Joash turned away from the Lord and even ordered the execution of Jehoiada's son, Zechariah, for speaking out against the king's disobedience (2Ch.24.17-22; Mat.23.35). This act of betrayal led to the downfall of Joash and the kingdom of Judah.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
The 10 best-attested of 13 are drawn. All 13 are listed below.
Father of
Partner of
- Jehoshebaregistry2 Chronicles 22:11
Stands in the same events as
- Joash16 events
- Cherethites4 events
- Levi3 events
- Judah2 events
- Israel1 event
- Coming1 event
- King1 event
- Burnt Offering1 event
- Placing1 event
- Obedience1 event
- Jehoiada, Azariah, Ishmael, Maaseiah, Elishaphat, and Whole Assembly’s covenant of Jeroham, Jehohanan, Obed, Adaiah, and Zichri1 event
- Tax1 event
and 10 more, ordered by how many events they share.
Places
Where this happens
A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.
No verse Atlas has read as a report puts this person anywhere.
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The pattern
Where Jehoiada is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
26 verses across 3 of 66 books; 63 write the name nowhere. Named in 2 Kings (7), 2 Chronicles (18) and Matthew (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 26, across 3 books. The name is written 29 times in them.
Onward
Where this page goes
Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Where they appear
Chapter by chapter
Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
- 2 Kings 11Jehoiada gathered the commanders, arranged the guard, crowned Joash, made covenants, and posted guards at the house of the LORD.
- 2 Kings 12Jehoiada instructed Joash, then placed a chest with a hole in its lid beside the altar for the temple money.
- 2 Chronicles 23Jehoiada made the covenant, arranged the guards, crowned the king, ordered Athaliah out of the temple, and restored the service of the house of the LORD.
- 2 Chronicles 24Jehoiada guided Joash, helped restore the house of the LORD, and died at 130, to be buried with the kings.
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