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•JEHUCAL able, the son of Shelemiah. He is also called Jucal (Jeremiah 38:1). He was one of the two persons whom Zedekiah sent to request the prophet Jeremiah to pray for the kingdom (Jeremiah 37:3) during the time of its final siege by Nebuchadnezzar. He was accompanied by Zephaniah (q.v.).
•JEHUDI a Jew, son of Nethaniah. He was sent by the princes to invite Baruch to read Jeremiah’s roll to them (Jeremiah 36:14, 21).
•JEIEL snatched away by God. (1.) A descendant of Benjamin (1 Chronicles 9:35; 8:29).
(2.) One of the Levites who took part in praising God on the removal of the ark to Jerusalem (1 Chronicles 16:5).
(3.) 2 Chronicles 29:13. A Levite of the sons of Asaph. (4.) 2 Chronicles 26:11. A scribe.
(5.) 1 Chronicles 5:7. A Reubenite chief.
(6.) One of the chief Levites, who made an offering for the restoration of the Passover by Josiah (2 Chronicles 35:9).
(7.) Ezra 8:13.
(8.) Ezra 10:43.
•JEMIMA dove, the eldest of Job’s three daughters born after his time of trial (Job 42:14).
•JEPHTHAH whom God sets free, or the breaker through, a “mighty man of valour” who delivered Israel from the oppression of the Ammonites (Judges 11:1-33), and judged Israel six years (12:7). He has been described as “a wild, daring, Gilead mountaineer, a sort of warrior Elijah.” After forty-five years of comparative quiet Israel again apostatized, and in “process of time the children of Ammon made war against Israel” (11:5).