Jozabad

joz'-a-bad (yozabhadh, "Yahweh has bestowed"):

⇒See a list of verses on JOZABAD in the Bible.

(1) A Gederathite, and one of David's recruits at Ziklag (1Ch 12:4 (Heb 5:1-14)). He is named with the Benjamites, but possibly he was a native of the town Gedara in Southern Judah. See Curtis, Chronicles, 196.

(2), (3) Two Manassite captains who joined David at Ziklag (1Ch 12:20 (Hebrew 21)).

⇒See also the McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia.

(4) A Levite overseer in Hezekiah's time (2Ch 31:13); may be the ancestor of the chief of the priests in 2Ch 35:9 = "Joram" of 1 Esdras 1:9.

(5) A Levite (Ezr 8:33), mentioned again probably in Ezr 10:23; Ne 8:7; 11:16. The name in 1 Esdras 8:63 ( = Ezr 8:33) is "Josabdus" (the King James Version "Josabad").

(6) A priest who had married a foreign wife Ezr 10:22) = "Ocidelus" of 1 Esdras 9:22.