Joel (1) - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

JOEL (1)

jo'-el (yo'el, popularly interpreted as "Yahweh is God"; but see HPN, 153; BDB, 222a):

(1) The firstborn of Samuel (1 Samuel 8:2; 1 Chronicles 6:33), and supplied in the Revised Version (British and American) of 1 Chronicles 6:28, correctly).

(2) A Simeonite prince (1 Chronicles 4:35). (3) A Reubenite chief (1 Chronicles 5:4,8).

(4) A Gadite chief, perhaps the same as (3) (1 Chronicles 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 (1 Chronicles 6:36), called "Shaul" in 6:24 (Hebrew 9)).

(6) A chief of Issachar (1 Chronicles 7:3).

(7) One of David's mighty men (1 Chronicles 11:38), brother of Nathan. 2 Samuel 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 (1 Chronicles 15:7,11,17), probably the Joe of 1 Chronicles 23:8 and 26:22.

(9) David's tribal chief over half of Manasseh (1 Chronicles 27:20).

(10) A Levite of Hezekiah's time (2 Chronicles 29:12).

(11) One of those who had married foreign wives (Ezra 10:43) = "Juel" of 1 Esdras 9:35.

(12) A Benjamite "overseer" in Jerusalem (Nehemiah 11:9).

(13) Ioel, the prophet (Joel 1:1; Acts 2:16). See following article.

David Francis Roberts

Bibliography Information
Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'JOEL (1)'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.