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Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
ASIEL.1. Grandfather of Jehu a Simeonite prince (1Ch_4:35). 2. One of five writers employed by Ezra to transcribe the Law (2Es_14:24). 3. (AV [Note: Authorized Version.] Asael) An ancestor of Tobit (Tob_1:1).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
1Ch_4:85.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
A'siel. (created by God).
1. A Simeonite whose descendant, Jehu, lived in the reign of Hezekiah. 1Ch_4:35.
2. One of the five swift writers whom Esdras was commanded to take to write the law and the history of the world. 2Es_14:24.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
ā?si-el, as?i-el (Ἀσιήλ, Asiḗl; the King James Version Asael (Tobit 1:1)):
(1) Grandfather of Jehu, one of the Simeonite ?princes? mentioned in 1Ch_4:35 as sharing Judah's inheritance (see Jos_19:9).
(2) A swift writer engaged by Ezra to transcribe the law (2 Esdras 14:24).
(3) An ancestor of Tobit (Tobit 1:1). Compare Jahzeel or Jahziel (Gen_46:24).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Asiel
the name of two men.
1. (Heb. Asiel/, עֲשִׂיאֵל, created by God; Sept. Α᾿σιήλ.) The father of Seraiah, and progenitor of one of the Simeonite chiefs that expelled the Hamite aboriaines from the fertile valleys near Gedor in the time of Hezekiah (1Ch_4:35). B.C. ante 712.
2. (Vulg. Asiel, for the Greek text is not extant.) The last named of the five scribes whom the divine voice is represented, in the fanciful vision of 2Es_14:24, as directing Ezra to bring for the purpose of recording the revelation about to be communicated to him.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.