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Bible Dictionaries
Jeiel
Smith's Bible Dictionary
or Je-i'el. (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, 1 Chronicles 15:21, or the psaltery and harp, 1 Chronicles 16:5, in the service before the ark. (B.C. 1043).
2. A Gershonite Levite, one of the Bene-Asaph, (that is, sons of 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, (that is, sons of 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, (that is, sons of 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, (that is, sons of Nebo), who had taken a foreign wife, and had to relinquish her. Ezra 10:43. (B.C. 459).
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Smith, William, Dr. Entry for 'Jeiel'. Smith's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/sbd/j/jeiel.html. 1901.
