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Hanamel
[People]Hanamel was a cousin of the prophet Jeremiah who appears in Jeremiah 32. While Jerusalem was under Babylonian siege, he sold his field in Anathoth to Jeremiah.
Adriel
[People]Adriel was an Israelite of the time of King Saul, the son of Barzillai the Meholathite. He married Merab, Saul's elder daughter, who had been promised to David.
Hananiah (False Prophet)
[People]Hananiah, son of Azur of Gibeon, is a prophet who appears in Jeremiah 28. During the reign of Zedekiah he prophesied that the yoke of Babylon would be broken within two years, and he broke the yoke Jeremiah was wearing. He died that same year, as Jeremiah had declared.
Oholiab
[People]Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach of the tribe of Dan, appears in the Book of Exodus. With Bezalel, he was one of the craftsmen who made the tabernacle and its furnishings in the wilderness.
Nahshon
[People]Nahshon was the leader of the tribe of Judah during the wilderness period after the Exodus. The son of Amminadab and the brother-in-law of Aaron, he appears in the genealogies of David and of Jesus Christ.
Amminadab
[People]Amminadab was a man of the tribe of Judah, the son of Ram and the father of Nahshon and Elisheba. He was the father-in-law of Aaron, and his name appears in the genealogies of David and of Jesus Christ.
Jehoash (King of Israel)
[People]Jehoash (also Joash) was a king of the northern kingdom of Israel and a member of the dynasty of Jehu. The son of Jehoahaz, he received from the dying Elisha the prophecy of "the arrow of the LORD's deliverance," which foretold victory over Aram, and he defeated Amaziah king of Judah in battle.
Chilion
[People]Chilion is a figure in the Book of Ruth, the son of Elimelech and Naomi and the brother of Mahlon. During a famine he moved with his family to Moab, where he died.
Jobab
[People]Jobab is a figure in the list of Edomite kings in Genesis 36 and 1 Chronicles 1. The son of Zerah of Bozrah, he succeeded Bela as the second king of Edom.
Hadadezer
[People]Hadadezer, son of Rehob, was king of the Aramean kingdom of Zobah in the time of David. David defeated him in two campaigns, and as a result the Aramean region came under Israelite influence.
Pashur
[People]Pashur was a priest who served as chief officer of the Temple in Jerusalem during the last years of the Kingdom of Judah. He struck the prophet Jeremiah and put him in the stocks, and he then received the new name "Magor-missabib" along with a word of judgment concerning the Babylonian captivity.
Urijah (prophet)
[People]Urijah, the son of Shemaiah of Kirjath-jearim, was a prophet in the reign of King Jehoiakim of Judah. He prophesied judgment in the same terms as Jeremiah and fled to Egypt, but he was brought back and put to death by the king's sword. He appears only in Jeremiah 26.
Abdon
[People]Abdon was a judge of Israel mentioned in Judges 12. The son of Hillel the Pirathonite from the land of Ephraim, he judged Israel for eight years. Scripture records that his forty sons and thirty grandsons rode on seventy donkey colts.
Sopater
[People]Sopater, the son of Pyrrhus, was a man of Berea mentioned once in Scripture, in Acts 20:4. Near the end of Paul's third missionary journey, he was among the companions who traveled with Paul from Macedonia toward Asia.
Tola
[People]Tola was a judge from the tribe of Issachar who succeeded Abimelech and judged Israel for twenty-three years during the period of the judges. He is briefly recorded in Judges 10:1–2.
Ahijah (Priest)
[People]Ahijah was a priest who wore the ephod and accompanied King Saul during his reign. A great-grandson of Eli, he is named in 1 Samuel 14.
Palti
[People]Palti, the son of Laish, was the man to whom King Saul gave his daughter Michal, David's wife, in marriage. In 2 Samuel he is also called Paltiel.
Ram
[People]Ram was an Old Testament figure of the tribe of Judah, the son of Hezron and the father of Amminadab. His name appears in the genealogies of David in Ruth and 1 Chronicles and in the genealogy of Jesus Christ in the Gospel of Matthew.
Izhar
[People]Izhar was a grandson of Levi and a son of Kohath. He was the uncle of Moses and Aaron and appears in biblical genealogies as the father of Korah, who rose up against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.
Subordinationism
[Doctrine & Theology]Subordinationism is the view that, within the triune God, the Son and the Holy Spirit are inferior to the Father in essence or divinity. Since the Nicene Creed, the orthodox church has rejected this position.