Was it an accepted custom amongst the Ancient Israelites to name their children Ishmael? (2 Kings 25:25-27 and the Book of Jeremiah )
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I might be making much ado about nothing and/or being nit-picky.
However, was it an accepted custom amongst the Ancient Israelites to name their children Ishmael?
I'm asking because in 2 Kings 25:25-27 and the Book of Jeremiah, it mentions a person named Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal family.
> 25 But it came about
> in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of
> Elishama, of the royal [a]family, came [b]with ten men and struck
> Gedaliah down so that he died along with the Jews and the Chaldeans
> who were with him at Mizpah. - 2 Kings 25:25-27 (New American Standard Bible 1995)
> 8 So they came to
> Gedaliah at Mizpah, along with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and
> Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of
> Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the
> son of the Maacathite, both they and their men. - Jeremiah 40:8 (New American Standard Bible 1995)
However, is it strange for Ancient Israelite to name one of their children, Ishmael, which is a name usually associated with a quasi rival as Ishmael was an opponent of Isaac (one of the paternal ancestors of the Ancient Israelites)?
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