Joahaz

Joahaz is named once, and only as a father — the parent of Joah, the recorder under King Josiah during the eighteenth-year repair of the temple in Jerusalem.

Father of Joah the Recorder

The single mention is procedural. Josiah, "in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land and the house," dispatches a three-man commission to begin temple repairs: "he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of Yahweh his God" (2 Chr 34:8). Joahaz himself does no work; his name surfaces only to identify which Joah is meant — the recorder, distinguished by his patronymic.

The setting is Josiah's reform after he has already "purged the land and the house" (2 Chr 34:8), and the commission's task is concrete repair: silver from the keepers of the threshold is delivered through Hilkiah and put "into the hand of the workmen who had the oversight of the house of Yahweh" (2 Chr 34:10) for carpenters, builders, cut stone, and timber. Joahaz stands behind that scene as the named ancestor of one of its officials, with no other detail preserved.