AZAEL.Father of one of the commission appointed to investigate the foreign marriages (1Es_9:14); same as Asahel No. 4.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
az?a-el Ἀζάηλος, Azáēlos; compare Asahel [Ezr_10:15): Father of Jonathan, one of two chief investigators of foreign marriages (1 Esdras 9:14).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Azael
Α᾿ζαῆλος), the father of Jonathan, which latter was one of those who superintended the repudiation of the Gentile wives after the return from Babylon (1Es_9:14); evidently the ASAHEL SEE ASAHEL (q.v.) of the genuine text (Ezr_10:15).
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.