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Abdeel
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Abdeel
Identity
- Name meaning
- servant of God (Heb. avd-el)
Family
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- Tribe / people
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Era & origin
- Era
- Late 7th century BC — reign of Jehoiakim (c. 605 BC)
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- Contemporary of
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Role
- Role
- Father of Shelemiah, an officer of King Jehoiakim
- Notable for
- Abdeel appears once in scripture, named only as the father of Shelemiah in Jeremiah 36:26.
Scripture
- First mention
- Jeremiah 36
- Most cited
- Jeremiah 36
- Key passages
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Abdeel appears once in scripture, named only as the father of Shelemiah in Jeremiah 36:26. Shelemiah was one of three men — Jerahmeel son of Hammelech, Seraiah son of Azriel, and Shelemiah son of Abdeel — commanded by King Jehoiakim to seize Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet after Baruch had read Jeremiah's scroll aloud in the temple. Jehoiakim had just cut the scroll up with a penknife and burned it in his winter house, and now wanted the prophet and his scribe arrested. The LORD, the text notes, hid them. Nothing further is recorded of Abdeel himself; his Hebrew name means servant of God.
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