Joel

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YHWH is his God.

(1.) The oldest of Samuel's two sons appointed by him as judges in Beersheba (1Sa_8:2).

(2.) A descendant of Reuben (1Ch_5:4, 1Ch_5:8).

(3.) One of David's famous warriors (1Ch_11:38).

(4.) A Levite of the family of Gershom (1Ch_15:7, 1Ch_15:11).

(5.) 1Ch_7:3.

(6.) 1Ch_27:20.

(7.) The second of the twelve minor prophets. He was the son of Pethuel. His personal history is only known from his book.

Joel (1)

jō´el (יואל, yō'ēl, popularly interpreted as “YHWH is God”; but see HPN, 153; BDB, 222a):

(1) The firstborn of Samuel (1Sa_8:2; 1Ch_6:33 (Hebrew 18), and supplied in the Revised Version (British and American) of 1Ch_6:28, correctly).

(2) A Simeonite prince (1Ch_4:35).

(3) A Reubenite chief (1Ch_5:4, 1Ch_5:8).

(4) A Gadite chief, perhaps the same as (3) (1Ch_5:12). He might be the chief of “a family or clan whose members might be reckoned as belonging to either or both of the tribes” (Curtis, Chronicles, 122).

(5) A Levite ancestor of Samuel (1Ch_6:36 (Hebrew 21), called “Shaul” in 1Ch_6:24 (Hebrew 9)).

(6) A chief of Issachar (1Ch_7:3).

(7) One of David's mighty men (1Ch_11:38), brother of Nathan. 2Sa_23:36 has “Igal son of Nathan,” and the Septuagint's Codex Vaticanus has “son” in 1 Chronicles, a reading which Curtis adopts. See Igal.

(8) A Levite (1Ch_15:7, 1Ch_15:11, 1Ch_15:17), probably the Joel of 1Ch_23:8 and 1Ch_26:22.

(9) David's tribal chief over half of Manasseh (1Ch_27:20).

(10) A Levite of Hezekiah's time (2Ch_29:12).

(11) One of those who had married foreign wives (Ezr_10:43) = “Juel” of 1 Esdras 9:35.

(12) A Benjamite “overseer” in Jerusalem (Neh_11:9).

(13) Ἰωήλ, Iōḗl, the prophet (Joe_1:1; Act_2:16). See following article.