JEHOIARIB

(Je·hoiʹa·rib) [May Jehovah Contend; Jehovah Has Conducted [Our] Legal Case].

The priest whose paternal house was selected by lot as first of the 24 priestly divisions organized during David’s rule. (1Ch 24:1-3, 5-7) Some of the postexilic descendants of this paternal house, or another priest with the same name, lived in Jerusalem. (1Ch 9:3, 10) The name is spelled Joiarib in the parallel list at Nehemiah 11:10.