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Smith’s Bible Dictionary · 1884

Michael

(who is like God?).

An Asherite, father of Sethur, one of the twelve spies. (Numbers 13:13) One of the Gadites who settled in the land of Bashan. (1 Chronicles 5:13) Another Gadite, ancestor of Abihail. (1 Chronicles 5:14) A Gershionite Levite, ancestor of Asaph. (1 Chronicles 6:40) One of the five sons of Izrahiah, of the tribe of Issachar. (1 Chronicles 7:3) A Benjamite of the sons of Beriah. (1 Chronicles 8:16) One of the captains of the “thousands” of Manasseh who joined David at Ziklag. (1 Chronicles 12:20) The father or ancestor of Omri, chief of the tribe of Issachar in the reign of David. (1 Chronicles 27:18) One of the sons of Jehoshaphat who were murdered by their elder brother, Jehoram. (2 Chronicles 21:2,4) The father or ancestor of Zebadiah, of the sons of Shephatiah. (Ezra 8:8) “One,” or “the first, of the chief princes” or archangels, (Daniel 10:21) as the “prince” of Israel, and in ch. (Daniel 12:1) as “the great prince which standeth” in time conflict “for the children of thy people.”

Smith’s Bible Dictionary, William Smith, revised and edited by F. N. and M. A. Peloubet (1884). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: words our source left outside its paragraphs put back in them.