International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Jahaziel

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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Jahaziel


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ja-hā´zi-el (יחזיאל, yaḥăzı̄'ēl, “God sees”):

(1) In (Hebrew 5), one of David's recruits at Ziklag, a Benjamite or maybe a Judean.

(2) In , one of two priests appointed by David to sound trumpets before the ark on its journey to Jerusalem. The Septuagint's Codex Vaticanus and Codex Alexandrinus, read “Uzziel.”

(3) In ; , a Levite, “son” of Hebron, a Kohathite. Kittel, following the Septuagint, reads “Uzziel.”

(4) In , an Asaphite, son of Zechariah. He encouraged King Jehoshaphat of Judah and his subjects to fight against the Moabite and Ammonite invaders.

(5) In , an ancestor of one of the families of the Restoration. Read probably “of the sons of Zattu, Sheconiah the son of Jahaziel,” following 1 Esdras 8:32 (= Jezelus).