Abiel אֲבִיאֵל

Saul's family. Abiel, also known as Jeiel, Ner, or Abigibeon (or '[re]-founder of Gibeon'), was the father of Kish and grandfather of King Saul.

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Also called Jeiel, Jehiel, Ner.

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Where Abiel appears

1 Chronicles (4), 1 Samuel (2)

Key verses

• 1 Samuel 9:1 first mention — Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Bechorath, the son of Aphiah, a Benjamite, a mighty man of power.
• 1 Samuel 14:51 — And Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.
• 1 Chronicles 8:29 — And at Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon; whose wife’s name was Maachah:
• 1 Chronicles 8:33 — And Ner begat Kish, and Kish begat Saul, and Saul begat Jonathan, and Malchi-shua, and Abinadab, and Esh-baal.
• 1 Chronicles 9:35 — And in Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon, Jehiel, whose wife’s name was Maachah:
• 1 Chronicles 9:39 — And Ner begat Kish; and Kish begat Saul; and Saul begat Jonathan, and Malchi-shua, and Abinadab, and Esh-baal.

Person data: STEPBible.org TIPNR, Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0), adapted. Verse text: King James Version.