Smith's Bible Names Dictionary – Jeiel
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Jeiel

(treasured of God).

+ A Reubenite of the house of Joel. (1 Chronicles 5:7)

+ 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.)

+ A Gershonite Levite, one of the Bene-Asaph, forefather of Jahaziel in the time of King Jehoshaphat. (2 Chronicles 20:14) (B.C. 910.)

+ The scribe who kept the account of the numbers of King Uzziah's irregular predatory warriors. (2 Chronicles 26:11) (B.C. 803.)

+ A Gershonite Levite, one of the Bene-Elizaphan. (2 Chronicles 29:13)

+ One of the chiefs of the Levites in the time of Josiah. (2 Chronicles 35:9) (B.C. 623.)

+ One of the Bene-Adonikam who formed part of the caravan of Ezra from Babylon to Jerusalem. (Ezra 8:13) (B.C. 459.)

+ A layman of the Bene-Nebo, who had taken a foreign wife and had to relinquish her. (Ezra 10:43) (B.C. 459.)