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Abiel
Abiel is a Benjamite whom 1 Samuel identifies as the father of Kish and thus the grandfather of Saul, Israel's first king. He appears only by name in genealogies, and nothing of his life is recorded.
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- KishPeople
Kish was the father of Saul, the first king of Israel, and the son of Abiel of the tribe of Benjamin. Several other individuals of the same name also appear in the Bible.
- AbimelechPeople
Abimelech is the name of several figures in the Old Testament. It most often refers to the king of Gerar who made covenants with Abraham and Isaac, and to the son of Gideon who made himself king during the period of the judges.
- AbileneBible
Abilene is a place name that appears once in Scripture, in Luke 3:1. It was a small territory in the Anti-Lebanon mountains northwest of Damascus. According to Luke, Lysanias was its tetrarch when John the Baptist began his ministry.
- Abel Beth MaacahBible
Abel Beth Maacah was a city near Dan at the far northern edge of Israel. It is known as the place where Sheba, who rebelled against David, took refuge and met his end through the intervention of a wise woman of the city.
- Cain and AbelPeople
Cain and Abel are the two sons of Adam and Eve who appear in Genesis 4. Cain's killing of his younger brother Abel in a dispute over offerings is known as the first murder recorded in the Bible.
Verses in the King James Version 3, showing 3
- 1 Samuel 9:1
Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Bechorath, the son of Aphiah, a Benjamite, a mighty man of power.
- 1 Samuel 14:51
And Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.
- 1 Chronicles 11:32
Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite,
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