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Agur
[People]Agur is the figure credited with the words of Proverbs 30 in the Old Testament. He is introduced only as "the son of Jakeh," and Scripture records nothing else about his life.
Jubal
[People]Jubal is a descendant of Cain named in Genesis 4, the son of Lamech and Adah. Scripture describes him as "the father of all such as handle the harp and organ."
Ahimaaz
[People]Ahimaaz was the son of Zadok, the priest during the reign of King David. During Absalom's rebellion he served as a messenger, carrying news from Jerusalem to David.
Jabal
[People]Jabal is a figure in the line of Cain recorded in Genesis 4, the son of Lamech and Adah. Scripture describes him as "the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle."
Menahem
[People]Menahem was a king of the northern kingdom of Israel in the mid-eighth century BC. He came to the throne by killing Shallum, reigned ten years in Samaria, and paid a thousand talents of silver to Pul, king of Assyria (2 Kings 15).
Jonadab
[People]Jonadab (Jehonadab), the son of Rechab, accompanied Jehu, king of the northern kingdom of Israel, in his purge of Baal worship and commanded his descendants to abstain from wine and to dwell in tents.
Mahlon
[People]Mahlon is a figure from the period of the judges who appears in the Book of Ruth. He was the son of Elimelech and Naomi of Bethlehem and the first husband of Ruth the Moabitess. He died childless in the land of Moab.
Shallum
[People]Shallum was the fifteenth king of the northern kingdom of Israel. He killed King Zechariah, seized the throne, and reigned in Samaria for one month before Menahem killed him (2 Kings 15).
Tibni
[People]Tibni, the son of Ginath, was proclaimed king by half the people of the northern kingdom of Israel after the death of King Zimri and contended with Omri for the throne. He appears only in 1 Kings 16.
Onan
[People]Onan was the second son of Judah, the son of Jacob. He refused the duty of raising up offspring for his deceased elder brother Er through his brother's widow, Tamar, and was slain by the LORD (Genesis 38).
Zelophehad
[People]Zelophehad was a man of the tribe of Manasseh who died during the wilderness period. He left no sons, only five daughters, and their petition led to the establishment of the law governing the inheritance of land by daughters.
Gad
[People]Gad was the son born to Jacob by Zilpah, Leah's maidservant, and the ancestor of the tribe of Gad, one of the twelve tribes of Israel. He and Asher were full brothers, born of the same mother.
Ahikam
[People]Ahikam was an official in the reign of King Josiah of Judah, the son of Shaphan the scribe, and the father of Gedaliah, governor of Judah. He is known for protecting Jeremiah when the prophet's life was in danger.
Pekahiah
[People]Pekahiah was a king of the northern kingdom of Israel who succeeded his father Menahem and reigned in Samaria for two years before he was killed in a conspiracy led by his captain Pekah (2 Kings 15:22–26).
Ahitub
[People]Ahitub is the name of several members of priestly families in the Old Testament. It most often refers to the grandson of Eli and father of Ahimelech, the priest of Nob, though other priests bore the same name.
Eliakim
[People]Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, was the official over the royal household under Hezekiah, king of Judah. He led the delegation that met the Assyrian Rabshakeh, and Isaiah 22 calls him God's "servant," who would replace Shebna.
Reu
[People]Reu is a figure in the genealogy of Shem in Genesis 11. He was the son of Peleg, the father of Serug, and the great-great-grandfather of Abraham. In the New Testament, his name appears in Luke's genealogy of Jesus.
Ahio
[People]Ahio was a man of David's time who, together with Uzzah, drove the new cart carrying the Ark of the Covenant; 2 Samuel records him as a son of Abinadab.
Pedaiah
[People]Pedaiah was a son of Jeconiah (Jehoiachin), king of Judah, and appears in the genealogy of 1 Chronicles 3. First Chronicles 3:19 records him as the father of Zerubbabel. Other passages name Zerubbabel as the son of Shealtiel, and this discrepancy has been the subject of discussion.
Hezron
[People]Hezron, the son of Perez and grandson of Judah, is an Old Testament figure whose name appears in the genealogies of David and of Jesus Christ. The clan of the Hezronites within the tribe of Judah descended from him.