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Abiezrite. According to the Hebrew Bible, the Abiezrites were one of the ten clans identified as belonging to the tribe of Manasseh. [1] 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]
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 J...
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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 ).
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. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE NAS NIV)
The narrative account of the Book of *Judges attests the existence of the clan of the Abiezrites in the 12 th century b.c.e. Joash, the father of Gideon, was surnamed "the Abiezrite" (Judg. 6:11) and his town was " *Ophrah of the Abiezrites" (Judg. 6:24, 8:32).
Whom Jehovah bestowed. (1.) A contracted form of Jehoash, the father of Gideon ( Judges 6:11, 29; 8:13, 29, 32). (2.) One of the Benjamite archers who joined David at Ziklag ( 1 Chronicles 12:3 ). (3.)
JOASH (Heb. יוֹאָשׁ ,יְהוֹאָשׁ; "yhwh has given"), son of Ahaziah, king of Judah (835–798 b.c.e.). Joash ascended the throne in the seventh year of the reign of Jehu, king of Israel (ii Kings 12:2), and ruled until the second year of the reign of Joash (Jehoash) of Israel ( ibid., 14:1).
