ADIEL

(Adʹi·el) [an ornament is God].

1. The father of Azmaveth, whom King David appointed to be over his royal treasure house.—1 Chron. 27:25, 31.

2. One of the chieftains of the tribe of Simeon, who, in the days of King Hezekiah of Judah in the eighth century B.C.E., shared in the dispossession of the Hamites from the region near Gedor.—1 Chron. 4:36, 38-41.

3. An Aaronic priest of the paternal house of Immer whose father was Jahzerah. His son Maasai served at Jerusalem after the Babylonian exile.—1 Chron. 9:12.