Person Old Testament
Joab
Joab was the ancestor of a family that returned to Judah from Babylonian exile. Mentioned in 2 verses across 2 books, first at Ezra 2:6.
Why it matters. Ancestor of a family that returned from Babylonian exile
- Primary passages
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-30 by the FaithGraph team
About Joab
Joab is mentioned in Ezr.2.6 and Neh.7.11 as the ancestor of a family that returned to Judah from Babylonian exile. The descendants of Joab are listed among the returnees who settled in Jerusalem and the surrounding towns. The count of Joab's descendants varies slightly between the two passages, with Ezra recording 2,812 and Nehemiah listing 2,818.
Description from STEPBible TIPNR (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0, lightly reformatted. This is background reference material, not Scripture and not a FaithGraph editorial claim.
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Family
Family links from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0). Where the dataset marks an identification as uncertain, the mark is kept. Matthew and Luke give different genealogies for Jesus; see the Lineage page, which never merges them.
- Parents
- Pahath-moab
- Siblings
- Jeshua
Appears in Scripture
Named in 2 verses across 2 books. Occurrence data from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0); references only, no translation text.