Je-iel

(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 Uzziahs 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.)