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Pekah
[People]Pekah, the son of Remaliah, became king of the northern kingdom of Israel through a coup. His alliance with Rezin king of Aram against Judah forms the background of the Immanuel prophecy in Isaiah 7.
Elkanah
[People]Elkanah is a figure in the Old Testament book of 1 Samuel, the husband of Hannah and the father of the prophet Samuel. He is remembered as a man who went up to Shiloh each year with his family to worship.
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).
Shebuel
[People]Shebuel was a Levite in the time of David and the chief among the descendants of Gershom, the son of Moses. First Chronicles records him as the officer in charge of the temple treasuries.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Raamah
[People]Raamah is a figure in the Table of Nations in Genesis 10: a son of Cush, a grandson of Noah's son Ham, and the father of Sheba and Dedan. In the Book of Ezekiel, the same name refers to an Arabian people who traded with Tyre.
Abishur
[People]Abishur is a figure in the genealogy of the tribe of Judah in 1 Chronicles 2. He was the son of Shammai, a descendant of Jerahmeel, and the husband of Abihail.
Elnathan
[People]Elnathan was a man of Jerusalem in the final years of the kingdom of Judah and the father of Nehushta, the mother of King Jehoiachin (2 Kings 24:8). Many identify him with "Elnathan the son of Achbor," an official of King Jehoiakim mentioned in the Book of Jeremiah.
Irad
[People]Irad is a figure in the genealogy of Cain in Genesis 4. He was the son of Enoch, the son of Cain, and the father of Mehujael. His name appears only once in the Bible, in Genesis 4:18.
Neriah
[People]Neriah is a figure in the Old Testament Book of Jeremiah. He was the son of Maaseiah and the father of Baruch, Jeremiah's scribe, and of Seraiah, an official of King Zedekiah.
Molid
[People]Molid is a figure in the genealogy of the tribe of Judah in 1 Chronicles 2. He was the son of Abishur, a descendant of Jerahmeel, and Abishur's wife Abihail, and the brother of Ahban.
Jezaniah
[People]Jezaniah, the son of Hoshaiah, was a military commander who led the remnant of the people immediately after Judah fell to Babylon. Together with Johanan, he asked Jeremiah to seek God's direction for the way they should go (Jeremiah 42:1).
Micaiah
[People]Micaiah, the son of Imlah, was a prophet in the time of Ahab, king of Israel. When four hundred prophets predicted victory, he alone prophesied Ahab's defeat (1 Kings 22; 2 Chronicles 18).
Achbor
[People]Achbor was an official under King Josiah of Judah and a member of the delegation sent to the prophetess Huldah to inquire about the book of the law found in the temple. The same name also belongs to the father of Baal-hanan, a king of Edom.
Jehoahaz
[People]Jehoahaz was the eleventh king of the northern kingdom of Israel and the son of Jehu. According to 2 Kings 13, he suffered long oppression at the hands of Hazael king of Aram and then sought the LORD. A king of Judah also bore the same name.
Jehoram (King of Judah)
[People]Jehoram was an Old Testament king of the southern kingdom of Judah, the son of Jehoshaphat and the husband of Athaliah, daughter of Ahab. His reign is recorded in 2 Kings 8 and 2 Chronicles 21.