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Jo'el. (to whom Jehovah is God).

1. Eldest son of Samuel, the prophet, 1 Samuel 8:2; 1 Chronicles 6:33; 1 Chronicles 15:17, and father of Heman, the singer. (B.C. 1094).

2. In 1 Chronicles 6:36, Authorized Version, Joel seems to be merely, a corruption of Shaul in 1 Chronicles 6:24.

3. A Simeonite chief. 1 Chronicles 4:35.

4. A descendant of Reuben. Junius and Tremellius make him, the son of Hanoeh, while others trace his descent through Carmi. 1 Chronicles 5:4. (B.C. before 1092).

5. Chief of the Gadites, who dwelt in the land of Bashan. 1 Chronicles 5:12. (B.C. 782).

6. The son of Izrahiah, of the tribe of Issachar. 1 Chronicles 7:3.

7. The brother of Nathan, of Zobah, 1 Chronicles 11:38, and one of David's guard.

8. The chief of the Gershomites, in the reign of David. 1 Chronicles 15:7; 1 Chronicles 15:11.

9. A Gershonite Levite, in the reign of David, son of Jehiel, a descendant of Laadan, and probably the same as Joel, 8. 1 Chronicles 23:8; 1 Chronicles 26:22. (B.C. 1014).

10. The son of Pedaiah, and a chief of the half-tribe of Manasseh, west of Jordan, in the reign of David. 1 Chronicles 27:20. (B.C. 1014).

11. A Kohathite Levite, in the reign of Hezekiah. 2 Chronicles 29:12. (B.C. 726).

12. One of the sons of Nebo, who returned with Ezra, and had married a foreign wife. Ezra 10:43. (B.C. 459).

13. The son of Zichri, a Benjamite. Nehemiah 11:9.

14. The second of the twelve minor prophets, the son of Pethuel, probably prophesied in Judah, in the reign of Uzziah, about B.C. 800.

Bibliography Information
Smith, William, Dr. Entry for 'Joel'. Smith's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​sbd/​j/joel.html. 1901.
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