One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Joiada. Every Joiada in the Bible
- verses
- 4
- first named
- Nehemiah 12:10
- last named
- Nehemiah 13:28
- period
- Exile and Return
- tribe
- Levi
Description
Who was Joiada?
Joiada is mentioned in the book of Nehemiah as a high priest who served during the Persian period. He was the son of Eliashib and the father of Jonathan (Neh.12.10,11). Joiada is listed in the genealogy of the high priests, indicating his legitimate claim to the office.
During Joiada's tenure as high priest, the priests and Levites were recorded according to their genealogies (Neh.12.22). This suggests that he oversaw the organization and administration of the temple personnel.
In Neh.13.28, it is revealed that one of Joiada's sons had married a daughter of Sanballat the Horonite, who was a prominent opponent of Nehemiah and the Jewish community. This marriage was seen as a violation of the covenant made by the Jews to separate themselves from foreign influences (Neh.10.30). Nehemiah responded by driving the offending son away from the community.
Joiada's high priesthood was marked by the ongoing challenges of maintaining religious purity and identity in the face of external pressures and influences. His son's marriage to a foreign woman highlights the difficulties faced by the Jewish community in preserving their distinct faith and culture during this period.
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.
Child of
Father of
- JohananregistryNehemiah 12:11
- son of JoiadaregistryNehemiah 13:28
Stands in the same events as
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 Joiada 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.
4 verses across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in Nehemiah (4).
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Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 4, across 1 book.
Onward
Where this page goes
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