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[[File:Abisua Abysue (titel op object) Liber Chronicarum (serietitel), RP-P-2016-49-23-2.jpg|thumb|A 1493 depiction of Abishua from the [[Nuremberg Chronicles]] by [[Hartmann Schedel]]]] 
'''Abishua''' ({{Langx|he|אֲבִישׁוּעַ}} ''ʾĂḇīšūaʿ'', "my father is rescue") was an early [[List of High Priests of Israel|High priest of Israel]].
Abishua is mentioned in the books [[Books of Chronicles|1 Chronicles]] (6:3-5) and [[Book of Ezra|Ezra]] (7:5) as the son of the [[List of High Priests of Israel|High Priest]] [[Phinehas]], son of [[Eleazar]]. As such, he is the great-grandson of [[Aaron]], the brother of [[Moses]] and first High Priest.  It is likely that Abishua was a contemporary of the Israelite judge [[Ehud]] and the Moabite king [[Eglon (king)|Eglon]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://biblehub.com/topical/a/abishua.htm|title=Topical Bible: Abishua|website=biblehub.com}}</ref>

According to [[Josephus]] and other extrabiblical sources, he succeeded his father as High Priest (Antiquities 5.11.5; 8.1.3).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/angel/1505/|title=Adam to Angell - Genealogy.com|website=www.genealogy.com|access-date=2017-12-12}}</ref>

==Name and namesakes==
*The meaning of the name "Abishua" is uncertain, but may be "the (divine) father is opulence."<ref>Cheyne and Black (1899), ''Encyclopaedia Biblica'', entry for "Abishua."</ref>
*The name also appears in reference to a grandson of [[Benjamin]] in [[Books of Chronicles|1 Chronicles]] 8:4.

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| before = [[Phinehas, son of Eleazar|Phinehas]]
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| title = [[List of High Priests of Israel|High Priest of Israel]]
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| after = [[Sashai]] (According to [[Samaritans]])<br />[[Bukki]] (according to the [[Tanakh]])
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