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•JAALA a wild she-goat, one of the Nethinim, whose descendants returned from the Captivity (Nehemiah 7:58).
•JAALAM concealer, the second of Esau’s three sons by Aholibamah (Genesis 36:5, 14).
•JAANAI mourner, one of the chief Gadites (1 Chronicles 5:12).
•JAASAU fabricator, an Israelite who renounced his Gentile wife after the Return (Ezra 10:37).
•JAASIEL made by God, one of David’s body-guard, the son of Abner (1 Chronicles 27:21), called Jasiel in 1 Chronicles 11:47.
(2.) The son of Shaphan (Ezekiel 8:11).
(3.) The son of Azur, one of the twenty-five men seen by Ezekiel (11:1) at the east gate of the temple.
(4.) A Maachathite (2 Kings 25:23; Jeremiah 40:8; 42:1). He is also called
Azariah (Jeremiah 43:2).
•JAAZER he (God) helps, a city of the Amorites on the east of Jordan, and assigned, with neighbouring places in Gilead, to Gad (Numbers 32:1, 35; Joshua 13:25). It was allotted to the Merarite Levites (21:39). In David’s time it was occupied by the Hebronites, i.e., the descendants of