Jozachar
Jozachar [1]
(Heb. Yozakar', יוֹזָכָר, Jehovah- remembered; Sept. Ι᾿ωσαβάδ v.r. Ι᾿ωζαχάρ ), the son of Shimeath, an Ammonitess, one of the two servants who assassinated Jehoash, king of Judah, in Millo ( 2 Kings 12:21). In the parallel passage ( 2 Chronicles 24:26) the name is erroneously written ZABAD. B.C. 837. "It is uncertain whether their conspiracy was prompted by a personal feeling of revenge for the death of Zechariah, as Josephus intimates ( Ant. 9, 8, 4), or whether they were urged to it by the family of Jehoiada. The care. of the chronicler to show that they were of foreign descent seems almost intended to disarm a suspicion that the king's assassination was an act of priestly vengeance. But it is more likely that the conspiracy had a different origin altogether, and that the king's murder was regarded by the chronicler as an instance of divine retribution. On the accession of Amaziah the conspirators were executed."
