1. Levite from the family of Kohath. He was Azariah’s son and an ancestor of Elkanah, the father of Samuel the prophet (1 Samuel 1:1; 1 Chronicles 6:36).
2. Oldest son of Samuel the prophet. He and his brother Abijah so corrupted the office of judge that the elders increased their demands for a king (1 Samuel 8:2–5). He was the father of Heman the singer (1 Chronicles 6:33; 15:17). His name has been mistakenly translated “Vashni” in the KJV in 1 Chronicles 6:28.→ View encyclopedia entry
3. Prince from one of the Simeonite families that emigrated to the valley of Gedor (1 Chronicles 4:35).→ View encyclopedia entry
4. Member of Reuben’s tribe (1 Chronicles 5:4, 8).→ View encyclopedia entry
5. Chief of Gad’s tribe residing in Bashan (1 Chronicles 5:12).→ View encyclopedia entry
6. Third of Izrahiah’s four named sons and a chief of Issachar’s tribe in David’s time (1 Chronicles 7:3).→ View encyclopedia entry
7. Nathan’s brother and one of David’s mighty men (1 Chronicles 11:38). He is alternately called Igal the son of Nathan in 2 Samuel 23:36. See Igal #2.→ View encyclopedia entry
8. Levite from the family of Gershon who took part in the royal procession that brought the ark of God to Jerusalem during David’s reign (1 Chronicles 15:7–11). He may have managed the treasuries of the temple in Jerusalem (1 Chronicles 26:22).→ View encyclopedia entry
9. Pedaiah’s son, who served as the leader of the west half of Manasseh’s tribe during David’s reign (1 Chronicles 27:20)→ View encyclopedia entry
10. Levite from the family of Kohath who helped with King Hezekiah’s reform of the temple in Jerusalem (2 Chronicles 29:12).→ View encyclopedia entry
11. Nebo’s son, who was encouraged by Ezra to divorce his foreign wife during the postexilic period (Ezra 10:43).→ View encyclopedia entry
12. Zicri’s son and the supervisor of 128 Benjaminites who relocated to Jerusalem after the exile (Nehemiah 11:9).→ View encyclopedia entry
13. Prophet who wrote the second book of the Minor Prophets. Little is known about him except that he was Pethuel’s son (Joel 1:1; Acts 2:16). See Joel, Book of.→ View encyclopedia entry