Joash (high priest)
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Joash was the fourth High Priest of Solomon's Temple
Solomon's Temple
Solomon's Temple, also known as the First Temple, was the main temple in ancient Jerusalem, on the Temple Mount , before its destruction by Nebuchadnezzar II after the Siege of Jerusalem of 587 BCE....

. Josephus
Josephus
Titus Flavius Josephus , also called Joseph ben Matityahu , was a 1st-century Romano-Jewish historian and hagiographer of priestly and royal ancestry who recorded Jewish history, with special emphasis on the 1st century AD and the First Jewish–Roman War, which resulted in the Destruction of...

 wrote that after Azariah
Azariah (high priest)
Azariah was the third High Priest after Zadok. He was one of the "princes" during the reign of Solomon, as mentioned in , where he is called "son of Zadok", although he is elsewhere identified as the son of Ahimaaz . Although his name appears in the list of the Zadokite dynasty there is no direct...

 his son 'Joram' became the new High Priest. The third name in the High Priest family line of (6:4-15 in other translations) is 'Johanan'.
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