Jehiel, Jehieli
Jehiel, Jehieli
je-hel, je-he-l (, yeh’el, may God live!):
(1) A Levite, one of the musicians appointed to play upon instruments at the bringing up of the ark by David (1Ch 15:18, 1Ch 15:20; 1Ch 16:5); (, yeh’el): A patronymic of this name (1Ch 26:21, 1Ch 26:22), but Curtis (Chronicles, 286-87) reads Jehiel (1Ch 26:21) and he is brethren Zetham and Joel (1Ch 26:22); compare 1Ch 23:8, where the three seem to be brothers. See (2) above.
(2) A Gershonite, head of a Levitical house (1Ch 23:8; 1Ch 29:8).
(3) Son of a Hachmonite; he was with the king’s (David’s) sons, i.e. their tutor (1Ch 27:32).
(4) A son of King Jehoshaphat (2Ch 21:2).
(5) In 2Ch 29:14 the King James Version, where Kere is , yehu’el, the Revised Version (British and American) Jehuel, a Hermanite Levite who took part in cleansing the temple in Hezekiah’s reign.
(6) An overseer in Hezekiah’s reign (2Ch 31:13).
(7) One of the three rulers of the temple in Hezekiah’s reign (2Ch 35:8).
(8) Father of Obadiah, a returned exile (Ezr 8:9) = Jezelus of 1 Esdras 8:35.
(9) Father of Shecaniah (Ezr 10:2) = Jeelus of 1 Esdras 8:92. He was a son of Elam, and so probably the same as Jehiel in Ezr 10:26, one of those who had married foreign wives = Jezrielus of 1 Esdras 9:27.
(10) A son of Harim, and one of those who had married foreign wives (Ezr 10:21) = Hiereel of 1 Esdras 9:21.
(11) The King James Version in 1Ch 9:35 = JEIEL (q.v. (2)).
(12) The King James Version in 1Ch 11:44 = JEIEL (q.v. (3)).