Meaning
Jehozadak (Jehovah justifies), usually called Jozadak or Josedech. He was the son of the high priest Seraiah. (1Chr 6:14; 1Chr 6:15) When his father was slain at Riblah by order of Nebuchadnezzar, (2Kgs 25:18; 2Kgs 25:21) Jehozadak was led away captive to Babylon. (1Chronicles 6:15) (B.C. 588.) He himself never attained the high priesthood, but he was the father of Jeshua the high priest, and of all his successors till the pontificate of Alcimus. (Ezra 3:2; Nehemiah 12:26), etc.