1 Chronicles 8:29

The father — i.e , the chief— of Gibeon . (For Gibeon , see Joshua 9:3 , Joshua 9:7-18 ; Joshua 10:2 ; Joshua 11:19 ; Nehemiah 7:25 ; Nehemiah 3:7 .) The father of Gibeon ( 1 Chronicles 9:35 ) was Jehiel ( יְעִיאֵל ; Chethiv spells with vau ; not יְחִיאֵל , 1 Chronicles 15:24 ). Of Jehiel by this name we do not elsewhere read. And even if it were on other grounds possible to identify the person with the Abiel of 1 Samuel 9:1 and 1 Samuel 14:51 , it is not possible to identify the names. Compare the similar remarkable omission of the name of the "father of Gibea" ( 1 Chronicles 2:49 ), an omission to be filled very possibly by this same name Jehiel.