Jehoiada
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Jehoiada
From Hebrew Yəhōyādhāʿ “Yahweh knows”
Example Sentences
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Jehoiada Rhodes makes saws—not Solomon’s sort—and Hariph Crawshaw keeps a farm.
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Joash, king of Judah, became to all appearance very holy and good, so long as Jehoiada the priest lived.
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He derived benefit from some of the last sermons of the Rev. Jehoiada Brewer, and at length joined the Church under the care of Rev. James Boden.
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When Athaliah, the mother of Ahaziah, had tyrannized six years, at length Jehoiada, with others, made a conspiracy against her, to depose her, and make Joash king; which when it was discovered, she cried treason, treason, as indeed it would have been so, if she had been the lawful magistrate; for it was an attempt of subjects against her that had the possession of the sovereign power.
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So when Jehoash or Joash was crowned, Jehoiada made a covenant between the Lord and the king and the people, between the king also and the people, 2 Kings xi.
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