JOIADA or Judas, High Priest of the Jews, successor to Eliashib or Joashib, who lived under Nehemiah, about the year of the world 3550, before J. C. 450, before the vulgar Æra 454. Joiada was succeeded by Jonathan or John. We neither know the year exactly of Joiada’s Pontificate, nor the time of his death.
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