Dict: smith - JEHOZADAK

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JEHOZADAK - J>@ - (Jehovah justifies), usually called Jozadak or Josedech. He was the son of the high priest Seraiah. ( kjv@1Chronicles:6:14-15) When his father was slain at Riblah by order of Nebuchadnezzar, ( kjv@2Kings:25:18 kjv@2Kings:25:21) Jehozadak was led away captive to Babylon. ( kjv@1Chronicles:6:15) (B.C. 588.) He himself never attained the high priesthood, but he was the father of Jeshua the high priest, and of all his successors till the pontificate of Alcimus. kjv@Ezra:3:2; kjv@Nehemiah:12:26), etc.