Jehoiarib
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Jehoiarib was the head of a family of priests
, which was made the first of the twenty-four priestly divisions
organized by King David.
that Jehoiarib was High Priest, his name doesn't appear in the list of the Zadokite dynasty .
According to Seder Olam Zuta, he was one of the High Priests of Israel. He succeeded Joash and was succeeded by Jehoshaphat (high priest)
.
Jehoiarib doesn't appear on the High Priest list written by Josephus
in his Antiquities of the Jews
. On that list Joash (called Joram) is succeeded by Isus.
Kohen
A Kohen is the Hebrew word for priest. Jewish Kohens are traditionally believed and halachically required to be of direct patrilineal descent from the Biblical Aaron....
, which was made the first of the twenty-four priestly divisions
Priestly divisions
The priestly divisions or sacerdotal courses are ritual work groups in Judaism originally formed during the reign of King David in the 10th century BCE as documented in the biblical passage of 1 Chronicles 24. These priests were all descendants of Aaron, known also as Aaronites. Aaron had four...
organized by King David.
High Priest
There is no indication in the TanakhTanakh
The Tanakh is a name used in Judaism for the canon of the Hebrew Bible. The Tanakh is also known as the Masoretic Text or the Miqra. The name is an acronym formed from the initial Hebrew letters of the Masoretic Text's three traditional subdivisions: The Torah , Nevi'im and Ketuvim —hence...
that Jehoiarib was High Priest, his name doesn't appear in the list of the Zadokite dynasty .
According to Seder Olam Zuta, he was one of the High Priests of Israel. He succeeded Joash and was succeeded by Jehoshaphat (high priest)
Jehoshaphat (high priest)
According to Seder Olam Zuta, Jehoshaphat was a High Priest of Israel, succeeding Jehoiarib and succeeded by Jehoiada. According to Josephus, the second High Priest after Joram was Pediah. Josephus does not mention a Jehoshaphat...
.
Jehoiarib doesn't appear on the High Priest list written by Josephus
Josephus
Titus Flavius Josephus , also called Joseph ben Matityahu , was a 1st-century Romano-Jewish historian and hagiographer of priestly and royal ancestry who recorded Jewish history, with special emphasis on the 1st century AD and the First Jewish–Roman War, which resulted in the Destruction of...
in his Antiquities of the Jews
Antiquities of the Jews
Antiquities of the Jews is a twenty volume historiographical work composed by the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus in the thirteenth year of the reign of Roman emperor Flavius Domitian which was around 93 or 94 AD. Antiquities of the Jews contains an account of history of the Jewish people,...
. On that list Joash (called Joram) is succeeded by Isus.