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Jehoiada

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “name of two priests in the hebrew bible”. Today it says “prominent priest in the kingdom of judah during the reigns of ahaziah”.
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Jehoiada, father of Benaiah . Jehoiada from Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum Jehoiada ( Hebrew : יְהוֹיָדָע Yəhōyāḏā‘ , " Yahweh knows") in the Hebrew Bible , was a prominent priest in the kingdom of Judah during the reigns of Ahaziah (reigned c. 842 - 841 BCE), Athaliah (reigned c. 841–835 BCE), and Joash (reigned c. 836–796 BC). Jehoiada became the brother-in-law of King Ahaziah as a result of his marriage with princess Jehosheba . Both Jehosheba and Ahaziah were children of King Jehoram of Judah (reigned c. 849 – 842 BCE). Ahaziah died a year after assuming the throne, which was then usurped by his mother Athaliah , who ordered the execution of all members of the royal family. Jehosheba and Jehoiada rescued Athaliah's one-year-old grandson, Joash , from Athaliah's slaughter. Jehoiada was instrumental in the staging of a coup d'état which dethroned and killed Athaliah. The account in 2 Chronicles notes the resolve of Jehoiada ( Jehoiada strengthened himself in the King James Version , Jehoiada took courage in the English Standard Version , words which do not occur in the parallel passage of 2 Kings 11:4 ). Athaliah described the coup as an act of treason ( 2 Chronicles 23:13 ). Under Jehoiada's guidance, Baal -worship was renounced and the altar and temple of Baal were destroyed. Jehoiada is also noteworthy for the national covenant that he made "between him, and between all the people, and between the king, that they should be the LORD's people" ( 2 Chronicles 23:16 ). According to the book of Chronicles Jehoiada lived for 130 years, which would give him an unlikely age of around 100 years at the time of his coupe against Athalia, and was buried very honorably among the kings in the city of David ( 2 Chronicles 24:15 ). Jehoiada's son, Zechariah ben Jehoiada , was later martyred by King Joash.

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