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("Jehovah will defend".) ; . A descendant of his is mentioned in , also descendant representatives of nearly all the old courses (; ). But the Talmud makes these professed representatives of the old 24 courses to have been not really descendants from the original heads, except from four of them, Jedaiah, Immer, Pashur, and Harim, for which the Babylonian Talmud has Joiarib (as implied in -39; -42); and that these four were subdivided into six each to make the 24; and that the 24 took the old names ().
The Asmonaean family and Josephus belonged to the course of Jehoiarib. The Talmud view is not favored by -8, which enumerates 21 courses, of Nehemiah's time: -7; , also enumerates 22 courses of Zerubbabel's time, among them Jehoiarib, of whose course Mattenai was chief in Jehoiakim's days. Jehoiarib is added in , not appearing in -8; from which Lord A. C. Hervey infers that Jehoiarib did return from Babylon, but later than Zerubbabel's time, and that his name was added to the list subsequently.