Jehiel [Jēhī'el]—god liveth

1. A Levite of the second degree who played the psaltery (1 Chron. 15:18-20; 16:5).
2. A Levite of the family of Gershom and chief of the house of Laadan in David’s time (1 Chron. 23:8; 26:21, 22; 29:8).
3. A son of Hachmoni and companion of David’s sons (1 Chron. 27:32). Perhaps a tutor of the king’s sons.
4. A son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, placed by his father over one of the fenced cities of Judah, but slain with his brother by Jehoram (2 Chron. 21:2-4).
5. A son of Heman the singer, he aided Hezekiah in his religious reforms (2 Chron. 29:14). RV has Jehuel.
6. A Levite set over the dedicated things by King Hezekiah (2 Chron. 31:13).
7. A chief priest in Josiah’s time who assisted in the reformation (2 Chron. 35:8).
8. The father of Obadiah who returned from exile with Ezra (Ezra 8:9).
9. The father of Shechaniah who was the first to acknowledge the guilt of taking foreign, or non-Jewish wives (Ezra 10:2).
10. A priest who had taken a foreign wife (Ezra 10:21).
11. A man of Elam’s family who had done the same thing (Ezra 10:26). See JEIEL.