Jeiel in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(treasured of God). 1. A Reubenite of the house of Joel. 1Ch 5:7 2. A Merarite Levite, one of the gate-keepers to the sacred tent. 1Ch 15:18 His duty was also to play the harp, ver. 1Ch 15:21 or the psaltery and harp, 1Ch 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. 2Ch 20:14 (B.C. 910.) 4. The scribe who kept the account of the numbers of King Uzziah's irregular predatory warriors. 2Ch 26:11 (B.C. 803.) 5. A Gershonite Levite, one of the Bene-Elizaphan. 2Ch 29:13 6. One of the chiefs of the Levites in the time of Josiah. 2Ch 35:9 (B.C. 623.) 7. One of the Bene-Adonikam who formed part of the caravan of Ezra from Babylon to Jerusalem. Ezr 8:13 (B.C. 459.) 8. A layman of the Bene-Nebo, who had taken a foreign wife and had to relinquish her. Ezr 10:43 (B.C. 459.)