Joiada
Son of Eliashib, in the Babylonian exile and the return. Named in scripture at Nehemiah 12:10.
What we know — and how we know it
Where in scripture
NehemiahJeshua became the father of Joiakim, and Joiakim became the father of Eliashib, and Eliashib became the father of Joiada,
Nehemiah 12:10
and Joiada became the father of Jonathan, and Jonathan became the father of Jaddua.
Nehemiah 12:11
As for the Levites, in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua, there were recorded the heads of fathers’ households; also the priests, in the reign of Darius the Persian.
Nehemiah 12:22
One of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite; therefore I chased him from me.
Nehemiah 13:28
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, a public-domain translation.
