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TABEEL
(Taʹbe·el) [God is good].
1. Father of a man whom the kings of Israel and Syria intended to place on the throne in Jerusalem if they captured Judah’s capital. The name of the son is not given. The incident occurred during the period when the reigns of Ahaz and Pekah overlapped (between c. 762 and 758 B.C.E.).—Isa. 7:5, 6.
2. Joint author of an Aramaic letter sent to Persian King Artaxerxes opposing the Jews’ reconstruction work in Jerusalem and resulting in a halt of temple rebuilding.—Ezra 4:7, 24.
