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Smith's Bible Dictionary

Jeshua:

(a saviour) another form of the name of Joshua of Jesus.

(1.) Joshua the son of Nun (Nehemiah 8:17). SEE [JOSHUA].

(2.) A priest in the reign of David, to whom the ninth course fell by lot (1 Chronicles 24:11). (B.C. 1014)

(3.) One of the Levites in the reign of Hezekiah (2 Chronicles 31:15). (B.C. 726)

(4.) Son of Jehozadak, first high priest after the Babylonish captivity, B.C. 536. Jeshua was probably born in Babylon, whither his father Jehozadak had been taken captive while young (1 Chronicles 6:15). Authorized Version. He came up from Babylon in the first year of Cyrus, with Zerubbabel, and took a leading part with him in the rebuilding of the temple and the restoration of the Jewish commonwealth. The two prophecies concerning him in Zechariah 3:1 … and Zechariah 6:9-15 point him out as an eminent type of Christ.

(5.) Head of a Levitical house, one of those which returned from the Babylonish captivity (Ezra 2:40; 3:9; Nehemiah 3:19; 8:7; 9:4-5; 12:8 etc.).

(6.) A branch of the family of Pahath‐moab, one of the chief families, probably, of the tribe of Judah Nehemiah 10:14; 7:11 etc.; Ezra 10:30.

(7.)(whom Jehovah helps) One of the towns reinhabited by the people of Judah after the return from captivity (Nehemiah 11:26). It is not mentioned elsewhere.

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