Jehosheba

Jehosh′eba, daughter of Jehoram, sister of Ahaziah, and aunt of Joash, kings of Judah. The last of these owed his life to her, and his crown to her husband, the high-priest Jehoiada [JEHOIADA].

The aunt of Joash, king of Judah, whose life in infancy and childhood she saved, in spite of the designs of Athaliah, 2Ki 11:1- 3.\par

Jehosh’eba. (Jehovah’s oath). Daughter of Joram, king of Israel, and wife of Jehoiada, the high priest. 2Ki 11:2. Her name in the Chronicles is given as Jehoshabeath. (B.C. 882). As she is called, 2Ki 11:2, "the daughter of Joram, sister of Ahaziah," it has been conjectured that she was the daughter, not of Athaliah, but of Joram, by another wife. She is the only recorded instance of the marriage, of a princess of the royal house, with a high priest.

("Jehovah’s oath, i.e. devoted to Him".) Daughter of king Joram of Israel. Jehoiada’s wife. So Elisheba (God’s oath) was Aaron’s wife, Elizabeth Zacharias’. (See JEHOIADA.) Athaliah is not specified as her mother, but this may be due to the sacred writer’s abhorrence of her name. Possibly her mother may have been another wife of Joram (2Ki 11:2). Jehosheba is the only instance of a princess marrying the high priest. Her position enabled her through God’s providence to rescue the little prince Joash, and hide him and his nurse in a bedchamber in the palace, afterward in the temple (2Ch 22:11; 2Ch 23:11; 2Ki 11:2-3), where he was brought up with her sons, who assisted at his coronation. Zechariah, Jehoiada’s successor, one of them, was afterward slain, a martyr for the truth. (See ZECHARIAH.)

[Jeho’sheba] See JEHOSHABEATH.

JEHOSHEBA (2Ki 11:2; Jehoshabeath in 2Ch 22:11).—Daughter of Jehoram of Judah. On the death of her half-brother Ahaziah, she was instrumental in preserving the Davidic stock, by concealing the infant Jehoash in a lumber-room of the palace (RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] ). According to the Chronicler, she was wife of Jehoiada.

jē̇-hosh´ē̇-ba, jē-hō̇-shē´ba (יהושׁבע, y^ehōshebha‛, “Yahweh is an oath”): Called “Jehoshabeath” in 2Ch 22:11; daughter of Jehoram king of Judah, possibly by a wife other than Athaliah (2Ki 11:2). According to 2Ch 22:11, she was the wife of Jehoiada, the priest. She hid Jehoash, the young son of King Ahaziah, and so saved his life from Queen Athaliah.