Jozachar

Jozachar — UPDV reads "Jozacar" — is one of the two servants who struck down King Joash of Judah at the close of his reign. He is named once in Kings under that form and once in Chronicles' parallel under a different name, Zabad. The two notices give the same crime from two angles: Kings names the killers, Chronicles characterizes them as conspirators with foreign mothers.

A Servant Who Struck Joash

The Kings notice closes Joash's regnal account with the assassination: "For Jozacar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his slaves, struck him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead" (2 Kgs 12:21). Jozacar acts together with Jehozabad — two servants of the king's own household — and the throne passes to Joash's son.

Called Zabad in the Chronicler's Parallel

The Chronicler tells the same event but supplies different patronyms and a different name for the first conspirator: "And these are those who conspired against him: Zabad the son of Shimeath the Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith the Moabitess" (2 Chr 24:26). The shared mother's name Shimeath identifies him as the same man called Jozacar in Kings, and the Chronicler adds the detail that both conspirators were sons of foreign-born women — one Ammonite, one Moabite.