Jahaziel

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ja-hā´zi-el (יחזיאל, yaḥăzī'ēl, “God sees,” or "Beheld by God"):

(1) In 1 Chronicles 12:4 (Hebrew 5), one of David's recruits at Ziklag, a Benjamite chief or maybe a Judean who joined David at Ziklag.

(2) In 1 Chronicles 16:6, one of two priests appointed by David to sound trumpets before the ark on its journey to Jerusalem. The Septuagint's Codex Vaticanus and Codex Alexandrinus, read “Uzziel.”

(3) In 1 Chronicles 23:19; 1 Chronicles 24:23, a Levite, the third “son” of Hebron, a Kohathite. Kittel, following the Septuagint, reads “Uzziel.”

(4) In 2 Chronicles 20:14, an Asaphite, son of Zechariah, a Levite of the family of Asaph (2 Chronicles 20:14-17). He encouraged King Jehoshaphat of Judah and his subjects to fight against the Moabite and Ammonite invaders.

(5) In Ezra 8:5, an ancestor of one of the families of the Restoration. Read probably “of the sons of Zattu, Sheconiah the son of Jahaziel,” following 1 Esdras 8:32 (= Jezelus).