Yahweh
Yahweh *''Yahwe'', was the national god of ancient Israel and Judah. The origins of his worship reach at least to the early Iron Age, and likely to the Late Bronze Age
The Bronze Age is a historic period, lasting approximately fr ...
contends") was the head of a family of
priests
A priest is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particu ...
, which was made the first of the twenty-four
priestly divisions
The priestly divisions or sacerdotal courses ( he, מִשְׁמָר ''mishmar'') are the groups into which Jewish priests were divided for the purposes of their service in the Temple in Jerusalem.
The 24 priestly divisions are first listed in t ...
organized by King David (reigned c. 1000–962 BCE).()
In Jewish tradition, Jehoiarib was the priestly course on duty when the
Second Temple
The Second Temple (, , ), later known as Herod's Temple, was the reconstructed Temple in Jerusalem between and 70 CE. It replaced Solomon's Temple, which had been built at the same location in the United Kingdom of Israel before being inherite ...
was destroyed by the Roman Imperial army in the second week of the lunar month Av, in 70 CE.
Jerusalem Talmud
The Jerusalem Talmud ( he, תַּלְמוּד יְרוּשַׁלְמִי, translit=Talmud Yerushalmi, often for short), also known as the Palestinian Talmud or Talmud of the Land of Israel, is a collection of rabbinic notes on the second-century ...
Meron
Meron may refer to:
People
* Meron (surname), including a list of people with the name
* Meron Abraham (born 1995), an Eritrean cyclist
* Meron Amanuel (born 1990), an Eritrean cyclist
* Meron Benvenisti (born 1934), an Israeli political scienti ...
, in Galilee, is presumed to have been settled by surviving members of the priestly stock Jehoiarib in the third-fourth centuries, since the town is mentioned as being affiliated with Jehoiarib, as inscribed in the ''Caesarea Inscription''. A
Talmudic
The Talmud (; he, , Talmūḏ) is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law ('' halakha'') and Jewish theology. Until the advent of modernity, in nearly all Jewish communities, the Talmud was the cen ...
reference mentions the priestly course in derision for its role in the Temple's destruction: "Jehoiarib, a man of Meron, the town Masarbaye" (), meaning, by a play on words, "he delivered" ( he, מסר = ''masar''), "the olyhouse" ( he, בייתא = ''bayta'') "unto the enemy" ( he, לשנאייא = ''le-senāyya'').
Seder Olam Zuta
Seder Olam Zutta ( Hebrew: ) is an anonymous chronicle from 803 CE, called "Zuta" (= "smaller," or "younger") to distinguish it from the older '' Seder Olam Rabbah.'' This work is based upon, and to a certain extent completes and continues, the ol ...
, 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
Flavius Josephus (; grc-gre, Ἰώσηπος, ; 37 – 100) was a first-century Romano-Jewish historian and military leader, best known for '' The Jewish War'', who was born in Jerusalem—then part of Roman Judea—to a father of priestly d ...
in his
Antiquities of the Jews
''Antiquities of the Jews'' ( la, Antiquitates Iudaicae; el, Ἰουδαϊκὴ ἀρχαιολογία, ''Ioudaikē archaiologia'') is a 20-volume historiographical work, written in Greek, by historian Flavius Josephus in the 13th year of the ...
. On that list Joram is succeeded by Isus.
Antiquities of the Jews
''Antiquities of the Jews'' ( la, Antiquitates Iudaicae; el, Ἰουδαϊκὴ ἀρχαιολογία, ''Ioudaikē archaiologia'') is a 20-volume historiographical work, written in Greek, by historian Flavius Josephus in the 13th year of the ...