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JEHIEL

(Heb. yĕḥîʾēl) (also JEHIELI)

1. A Levite and musician in Jerusalem at the time of David (1 Chr. 15:18). He was a harpist appointed to the second rank of musicians who played while the ark was moved to Jerusalem (1 Chr. 15:20) and later served before the ark (16:5).

2. A Gershonite Levite, leader of the house of Laadan (1 Chr. 23:8). He was the founder of the levitical family of Jehieli (a variant spelling of his name; 1 Chr. 26:21).

3. A son of Hachmoni (or a Hachmonite), employed by David, probably as teacher or counselor (1 Chr. 27:32).

4. A Gershonite who was in charge of the temple treasury (1 Chr. 29:8); probably the same as 2.

5. One of king Jehoshaphat’s seven sons (2 Chr. 21:2).

6. A Levite, one of the overseers in the temple appointed by Hezekiah under the supervision of Conaniah (2 Chr. 31:13).

7. A prominent official at the time of King Josiah, together with Hilkiah and Zechariah called “chief officers of the house of God” (2 Chr. 35:8). He and other leaders voluntarily provided Passover offerings for the priests and Levites.

8. The father of Obadiah, of the family of Joab, head of one of the families that together with 218 men left Babylon (Ezra 8:9).

9. The father of Shechaniah, of the family of Elam (Ezra 10:2).

10. A priest of the family of Harim, one of those who married foreign women (Ezra 10:21).

11. An Israelite of the family of Elam who had married a foreign woman (Ezra 10:26), perhaps identical with 9.

Jesper Svartvik

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JEHIEL

Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)