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Head of the second course of priests, under David (). Some "children of Jedaiah of the house of Jeshua, 973," returned from Babylon (; ). These are thus distinguished from a second priestly "house" named "Jedaiah" (-7; ; ). Jehoiarib and Jedaiah represent two classes of the priesthood (). It is a corrupt reading in which makes Jedaiah son of Joiarib. Though Joiarib's was the first course, Jedaiah's, as having for their head Jeshua (he being high-priest under Zerubbabel), is named first.