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1. A patriarch of Benjamite heads of houses whose sons numbered 17,200 mighty men in David's days (; ). Identified with Ashbel (). But Jediael may have been a later descendant from Benjamin who, by superior fruitfulness of his house, superseded an elder branch (Ashbel's) whose issue failed.
2. Tabernacle doorkeeper under David (-2).
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4. Joined David, from Manasseh, on his way to Ziklag just before the battle of Gilboa; he helped David against the Amalekites (; Samuel 29-30).