Ammiel
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This entry incorporates text from Easton's Bible Dictionary, 1897, with some modernisation.
"Ammiel" means "people of God."
- One of the twelve spies sent by Moses to search the land of Canaan (Num. 13:12). He was one of the ten who perished by the plague for their unfavourable report (Num. 14:37).
- The father of Machir of Lo-debar, in whose house Mephibosheth resided (2 Sam. 9:4, 5; 17:27).
- The father of Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah, and afterwards of David (1 Chr. 3:5). He is called Eliam in 2 Sam. 11:3.
- One of the sons of Obed-edom the Levite (1 Chr. 26:5).