Jerahmeel, Jerahmeelites
Jerahmeel, Jerahmeelites
je-rame-el, je-rame-el-ts (, yerahme’el, may God have compassion!):
(1) In 1Ch 2:9, 1Ch 2:25, 1Ch 2:26, 1Ch 2:27, 1Ch 2:33, 1Ch 2:42, he is described as the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah by Tamar his daughter-in-law (Gen 38). In 1Sa 27:10 is mentioned the neghebh of the Jerahmeelites (, ha-yerah-me’el, a collective noun), the Revised Version (British and American) the South of the Jerahmeelites. The latter is a tribal name in use probably before the proper name, above; their cities are mentioned in 1Sa 30:29. Cheyne has radical views on Jerahmeel. See EB, under the word; also T. Witton Davies in Review of Theology and Philosophy, III, 689-708 (May, 1908); and Cheyne’s replies in Hibbert Journal, VII, 132-51 (October, 1908), and Decline and Fall of the Kingdom of Judah.
(2) A Merarite Levite, son of Kish (1Ch 24:29).
(3) The king’s son, the Revised Version (British and American) and the King James Version margin (Jer 36:26). the Revised Version margin, the King James Version have son of Hammelech, taking the word as a proper name. He was probably a royal prince, one who had a king among his ancestors but not necessarily son of the ruling king; so Jer 38:6; 1Ki 22:26; especially Zep 1:8 written at a time when the reigning king, Josiah, could not have had a grown-up ‘son’ (Driver, Jeremiah, 224, note e). Jerahmeel was with two others commanded by Jehoiakim to arrest Jeremiah and Baruch.