| Ishmael = "God will hear"
1. son of Abraham and Sarah's handmaid Hagar and the progenitor of the Arabian peoples 2. son of Nethaniah and the murderer of Gedaliah 3. a Benjamite, one of the sons of Azel a descendant of Saul through Meribbaal or Mephibosheth 4. a Judaite, father of Zebadiah 5. a Judaite, son of Johanan and one of the captains who aided Jehoiada in restoring Joash to the throne 6. a priest of the family of Pashur with a foreign wife whom he was forced to put away by Ezra |