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JEHIEL.—1. One of David’s chief musicians (1Ch_15:18; 1Ch_15:20; 1Ch_16:5). 2. A chief of the Levites (1Ch_23:8; 1Ch_29:8). 3. One who was ‘with (= tutor of?) the king’s sons’ (1Ch_27:32). 4. One of Jehoshaphat’s sons (2Ch_21:2). 5. One of Hezekiah’s ‘overseers’ (2Ch_31:13). 6. A ruler of the house of God in Josiah’s reign (2Ch_35:8). 7. The father of Obadiah, a returned exile (Ezr_8:9); called in 1Es_8:35 Jezelus. 8. Father of Shecaniah (Ezr_10:2); called in 1Es_8:92 Jeelus, perhaps identical with 9. One of those who had married foreign wives (Ezr_10:26); called in 1Es_9:27 Jezrielus. 10. A priest of the sons of Harim who had married a foreign wife (Ezr_10:21); called in 1Es_9:21 Hiereel.