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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Azal
Zechariah says that when the Mount of Olives splits in two, the valley will run as far as Azal. The same name, as Azel, belongs to a Benjamite descendant of Saul through Jonathan, listed with his six sons in Chronicles.
Zechariah says that when the Mount of Olives splits in two, the valley will run as far as Azal. The same name, as Azel, belongs to a Benjamite descendant of Saul through Jonathan, listed with his six sons in Chronicles.
Azal, also spelled Azel, is used in the Hebrew Bible for both a person and a place, though it is the same underlying name. Azel was a great-great-grandson of King Saul through Jonathan, a Benjamite listed with his six sons in the genealogies of 1 Chronicles 8:37-38 and 9:43-44. Separately, the prophet Zechariah uses "Azal" as a place name near Jerusalem, saying that when the Mount of Olives splits in two, the resulting valley will reach "as far as Azal" (Zechariah 14:5), though its precise location is uncertain and some translators render the phrase simply as "very near."
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- 1 Chronicles 8:37
- 1 Chronicles 8:38
- 1 Chronicles 9:43
- 1 Chronicles 9:44
- Zechariah 14:5
