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Reuben
[People]Reuben was the firstborn son of Jacob and Leah and the ancestor of the tribe of Reuben, one of the twelve tribes of Israel. Scripture records that he lost his position as firstborn because he lay with Bilhah, his father's concubine.
Rehabiah
[People]Rehabiah was the only son of Eliezer, the son of Moses, and appears in the Levitical genealogies of 1 Chronicles. The text records that his descendants were very numerous.
Gershon
[People]Gershon was the first son of Levi, the son of Jacob. His descendants, the Gershonites, were a clan of the tribe of Levi responsible for carrying the curtains and coverings of the tabernacle during the wilderness period.
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.
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).
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.
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.
Abihu
[People]Abihu, the second son of the high priest Aaron in the Old Testament, was consecrated as a priest along with his older brother Nadab. He died by fire that came out from before the LORD after offering incense with "strange fire," which the LORD had not commanded.
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).