1 Chronicles 27:30
Over the camels also was Obil the Ishmaelite: and over the asses was Jehdeiah the Meronothite:
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Obil The name is a form of the Arabic word âbil, "one who feeds camels."
the Meronothite Meronothwas perhaps near Gibeon and Mizpah; cp. Neh 3:7.