Jeiel

Smith’s Bible Dictionary

“Jeiel” means treasured of God

  1. A Reubenite of the house of Joel. (1 Chronicles 5:7)
  2. A Merarite Levite, one of the gate-keepers to the sacred tent. (1 Chronicles 15:18) His duty was also to play the harp, ver. (1 Chronicles 15:21) or the psaltery and harp, (1 Chronicles 16:5) in the service before the ark. (B.C. 1043.)
  3. A Gershonite Levite, one of the Bene-Asaph, forefather of Jahaziel in the time of King Jehoshaphat. (2 Chronicles 20:14) (B.C. 910.)
  4. The scribe who kept the account of the numbers of King Uzziah's irregular predatory warriors. (2 Chronicles 26:11) (B.C. 803.)
  5. A Gershonite Levite, one of the Bene-Elizaphan. (2 Chronicles 29:13)
  6. One of the chiefs of the Levites in the time of Josiah. (2 Chronicles 35:9) (B.C. 623.)
  7. One of the Bene-Adonikam who formed part of the caravan of Ezra from Babylon to Jerusalem. (Ezra 8:13) (B.C. 459.)
  8. A layman of the Bene-Nebo, who had taken a foreign wife and had to relinquish her. (Ezra 10:43) (B.C. 459.)
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