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Hiel

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

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HIEL . The name of a certain Bethelite who in the days of Ahab fortified Jericho, and possibly sacrificed his two sons to appease the gods of the disturbed earth ( 1 Kings 16:34 ). Some obscure event is here applied as a comment on the curse on Jericho pronounced by Joshua.

W. F. Cobb.

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Hastings, James. Entry for 'Hiel'. Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​hdb/​h/hiel.html. 1909.
 
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