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<p> [[Joachimites]] </p> <p> (See Joachim Of Floris). </p> <p> Jo '''''Ä''''' cim ( '''''Ι᾿Ωακίμ''''' ), another Graecized form of the Heb. name JOACHIM, applied in the [[Apocrypha]] to </p> <p> '''1.''' The son of Josiah, king of Judah (1 Esdr. 1:37, 38, 59). </p> <p> '''2.''' By corruption for [[Jehoiachin]] the next king of Judah (&nbsp;1 [[Esdras]] 1:43). </p> <p> '''3.''' A son of Zerubbabel, who returned to Jerusalem after the exile (&nbsp;1 Esdras 5:5), apparently a mistake for [[Zerubbabel]] himself. </p> <p> '''4.''' "The high priest which was in Jerusalem" (&nbsp;Judith 4:6; &nbsp;Judith 4:14) in the time of Judith, and who welcomed the heroine after the death of Holofernes, in company with "the ancients of the children of Israel" ( '''''Ἡ''''' '''''Γερουσία''''' '''''Τῶν''''' '''''Μὶῶν''''' '''''Ι᾿Σραήλ''''' , 15:8 sq.). The name occurs with the various reading ''Eliakim,'' but it is impossible to identify him with any historical character. No such name occurs in the lists of high priests in 1 Chronicles 6 (compare Josephus, ''Ant.'' 10, 8, 6); and it is a mere arbitrary conjecture to suppose that Eliakim, mentioned in &nbsp;2 Kings 18:18, was afterwards raised to that dignity. Still less can be said for the identification of Joacim with [[Hilkiah]] (&nbsp;2 Kings 22:4; [[Josephus]] '''''Ε᾿Λιακίας''''' , ''Ant.'' 10, 4, 2; Sept. '''''Χελκίας''''' ). The name itself is appropriate to the position which the high priest occupies in the story of Judith ("The Lord hath set up"), and the person must be regarded as a necessary part of the fiction. (See [[Judith]]). </p> <p> '''5.''' The husband of Susanna (Sus. 1 sq). The name seems to have been chosen, as in the former case, with a reference to its meaning; and it was probably for the same reason that the husband of Anna, the mother of the Virgin, is called Joacim in early legends ( ''Protev. Jac.'' 1, etc.). (See [[Susanna]]). </p>