# Rechab

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Name of various Biblical figures

**Rechab** ([Hebrew](/source/Hebrew_language): רֵכָב *Rēḵāḇ*) is the name of three men in the [Bible](/source/Bible):

Rechab the father of Jonadab by [Hartmann Schedel](/source/Hartmann_Schedel)'s book called *[Nuremberg Chronicles](/source/Nuremberg_Chronicles)*

- One of the two "captains of bands" whom [Saul](/source/Saul_the_King)'s son [Ish-bosheth](/source/Ish-bosheth) took into his service, and who conspired to kill him. (2 Samuel 4:2)

- A [Kenite](/source/Kenite), mentioned as the father of [Jehonadab](/source/Jehonadab) at King [Jehu](/source/Jehu)'s time, from whom the tribe of the [Rechabites](/source/Rechabites) derived their name.[1] Jehonadab and his people had all along become worshippers of God.

- The father of [Malchiah](/source/Malchiah), ruler of part of [Beth-haccerem](/source/Beit_HaKerem_(Bible)). (Nehemiah 3:14)

## See also

- [Rahab](/source/Rahab)

- [Rechabites](/source/Rechabites)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). ["Rechab and the Rechabites"](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_(1913)/Rechab_and_the_Rechabites). *[Catholic Encyclopedia](/source/Catholic_Encyclopedia)*. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

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