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(Heb. Yeiel', éְòַéàֵì , snatched away by God), the name of several men. SEE JEHIEL; SEE JEUEL.
1. (Text éְòַåàֵì [ i.e. Jeuel], Sept. É᾿åéήë v.r. É᾿åήë , Vulg. Jehiel, Auth. Version “Jehiel.”) A descendant of Benjamin, apparently named as the founder of and resident at Gibeon, the husband of Maachah, and the father of a large family (1Ch_9:35; comp. 8:29). B.C. prob. cir. 1618.
2. (Text éְòַåֹàֵì [i.e. Jeuel], Sept. É᾿åúήë or É᾿åéήë , Vulg. Jediel, Auth. Vers. “Jehiel.”) An Aroerite, son of Hothan, and brother of Shama, one of David's supplementary heroes (1Ch_11:44). B.C. 1046.
3. (Sept. É᾿åúήë ,Vulg. Jehiel, but Jahiel in the first occurrence in 1Ch_16:5.) One of the Levites appointed by David to celebrate the divine praises before the ark on its removal to Jerusalem (1Ch_16:5); apparently the same mentioned again in the latter part of the same verse as a performer on “psalteries and harps;” named elsewhere in like connection with Obededom, either as a gate warden of the Temple (1Ch_15:18; 1Ch_15:21), or as one of the sacred musicians “with harps on the Sheminith to excel” (1Ch_15:21). B.C. 1043. SEE JEHIEL, 1.
4. (Sept. Å᾿ëåήë v.r. Å᾿ëåúήë , Å᾿ëåéήë , also É᾿åéήë , Vulg. Jehiel.) A Levite, son of Mattaniah and father of Benaiah, great grandfather of Jahaziel, who predicted success to Jehoshaphat against the Ammonites and Moabites (2Ch_20:14). B.C. considerably ante 890.
5. (Text éְòַåàֵì [i.e. Jeuel], Sept. É᾿åúήë , Vulg. Jehiel.) A scribe charged, in connection with others, with keeping the account of Uzziah's troops (2Ch_26:11). B.C. 803.
6. (Sept. É᾿ùήë ,,Vulg. Jehiel.) A chief Reubenite at the time of the taking of some census, apparently on the deportation of the trans-Jordanic tribes by Tilgath-pilneser (1Ch_5:7). B.C. 782.
7. (Text éְòַåàֵì [i.e. Jeuel], Sept. É᾿åúήë ,Vulg. Jahiel.) A Levite of the “sons” of Elizaphan, one of those who assisted in expurgating the Temple in the reign of Hezekiah (2Ch_29:13). B.C. 726.
8. (Sept. É᾿åúήë ,Vulg. Jehiel.) One of the chief Levites who made an offering for the restoration of the Passover by Josiah (2Ch_35:9). B.C. 623.
9. (Text éְòַåàֵì [i.e. Jeuel], Sept. É᾿åήë v.r. Å᾿úήë , Vulg. Jehiel.) One of the “last sons” of Adonikam, a leading Israelite, who, with seventy males, returned from Babylon with Ezra (Ezr_8:13). B.C. 459.
10. (Sept. É᾿ååήë v.r. É᾿áήë ,Vulg. Jehiel.) An Israelite, one of the “sons” of Nebo, who divorced his Gentile wife after the Exile (Ezr_10:43). B.C. 459.