Jehoiarib ( ''Yehōyārîḇ'', "

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contends") was the head of a family of priests, 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 ...

organized by King David (reigned c. 1000–962 BCE).() In Jewish tradition, Jehoiarib was the priestly course on duty when the Second Temple was destroyed by the Roman Imperial army in the second week of the lunar month Av, in 70 CE.

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(''Taanit'' 4:5 4a Meron, 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

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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

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house" ( he, בייתא = ''bayta'') "unto the enemy" ( he, לשנאייא = ''le-senāyya'').

High Priest

There is no indication in the

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, 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

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in his Antiquities of the Jews. On that list Joram is succeeded by Isus. Antiquities of the Jews 10:151-153.

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