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The Abiezrites traced their lineage through Abiezer, the son of Gilead. Joash and Gideon were members of this clan: Gideon describes the Abiezrites, as "the weakest in [the tribe of] Manasseh". [2] The Samaria Ostraca, written between 850-750 BCE, records two villages associated with the Abiezrites. Scholars have identified that the clan lived ...
Abiezrite (1 Occurrence) Judges 6:11 The angel of Yahweh came, and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained to Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.
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This district of Manasseh, inhabited by the Abiezrites ( Judg 6:34 ), was the native region from which Gideon, the son of Joash the Abiezrite came ( 6:11 ). The site of the appearance of the angel of the Lord to Gideon was Ophrah of the Abiezrites ( 6:24 ).
During his reign, Israel regained captured cities (2Kgs 13:25). 3 An Abiezrite, the father of Gideon the judge, who defended his son’s destruction of the Baal altar (Judg 6:11; Judg 6:29-31). 4 The son of Ahab, king of Israel, in whose co-custody the prophet Micaiah’s imprisonment was entrusted (1Kgs 22:26). 5 A son of Shelah, the son of ...
Encyclopaedia Judaica. ABIEZERABIEZER (Heb.אֲבִיעֶזֶר; "my Father [God] is help," or "my Father [God] is hero"; variant Iezer , Heb. אִיעֶזֶר, Num. 26:30). (1) A person and a tribal unit of the tribe of *Manasseh in three genealogical lists in the Bible and a clan in the story of *Gideon. Source for information on Abiezer ...
Judges 6:11. ESV Now the angel of the LORD came and sat under the terebinth at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, while his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress to hide it from the Midianites.
It was, indeed, family property, belonging to Joash the Abiezrite, the father of Gideon. It was apparently not far from the plain of Esdraelon (Judges 6:33 f), so that Gideon and his kinsmen smarted under the near presence of the oppressing Midianites. Manasseh, of course, as bordering on the southern edge of the plain, was in close touch with ...
