jerahmeel Summary and Overview

loving God. (1.) The son of Hezron, the brother of Caleb (1 Chr. 2:9, 25, 26, etc.). (2.) The son of Kish, a Levite (1 Chr. 24:29). (3.) Son of Hammelech (Jer. 36:26).

JERAH'MEEL (on whom God has mercy). 1. The son of Hezron, Judah's grandson, 1 Chr 2:9, 1 Chr 2:25-27, 1 Chr 2:33, 1 Chr 2:42; founder of the Jerahmeelites, 1 Sam 27:10; 1 Sam 30:29, a tribe in the southern part of Judah. 2. A Merarite Levite. 1 Chr 24:29. 1. A man employed to arrest Jeremiah and Baruch. Jer 36:26.

1. Hezron's firstborn (1 Chronicles 2:9,25-27,33,42). His descendants occupied southern Judah. David pretended to Achish he had invaded them, but finally he sent them presents of the Amalekite spoil (1 Samuel 27:8,10; 30:29). The Geshurites, Gezrites, and Amalekites dwelt close to southern Judah, so that David's march against them seemed a march against southern Judah. The Negeb or S. land lies between the mountains of Judah and the Arabian desert (Joshua 15:19-21). The Kenites occupied the wilderness of Judah S. of Arad (Judges 1:16). The Negeb of Jerahmeel lay S.W. of Arad, the quarter from which David would pretend to attack them, setting out from the Philistines. It is now er Rakhmah, a corruption of Jerahmeel. The wady er Ramail and Beard, er Ramail, S.E. of Arad, are traceable to the same name. The Negeb of Caleb meets the Jerahmeelite land, as its northern frontier. 1 Chronicles 24:29; 23:21. 2. Father (founder) of Gedor (1 Chronicles 4:18), son of Meted by see JEHUDIJAH (1 Chronicles 4:18). 3. Hammelech's son sent by king Jehoiakim to apprehend Baruch and Jeremiah, "but the Lord hid them"(Jeremiah 36:26; Psalm 31:20; 83:3; Isaiah 26:20). Not as margin "son of the king," for he at this time (the fifth year of his reign) had no grown up son; Jeconiah was then but 11 years old (2 Kings 23:36, compare 24:8). 1 Chronicles 1:2.