Joel (Person)

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.

3. Prince from one of the Simeonite families that emigrated to the valley of Gedor (1 Chronicles 4:35).

4. Member of Reuben’s tribe (1 Chronicles 5:4, 8).

5. Chief of Gad’s tribe residing in Bashan (1 Chronicles 5:12).

6. Third of Izrahiah’s four named sons and a chief of Issachar’s tribe in David’s time (1 Chronicles 7:3).

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.

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).

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)

10. Levite from the family of Kohath who helped with King Hezekiah’s reform of the temple in Jerusalem (2 Chronicles 29:12).

11. Nebo’s son, who was encouraged by Ezra to divorce his foreign wife during the postexilic period (Ezra 10:43).

12. Zicri’s son and the supervisor of 128 Benjaminites who relocated to Jerusalem after the exile (Nehemiah 11:9).

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.