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HIEL.—The name of a certain Bethelite who in the days of Ahab fortified Jericho, and possibly sacrificed his two sons to appease the gods of the disturbed earth (1Ki_16:34). Some obscure event is here applied as a comment on the curse on Jericho pronounced by Joshua.
W. F. Cobb.