Jaala

Jaala is the eponym of a family among "the servants of Solomon" — a guild of temple-servant descent — whose sons returned from Babylonian exile. The two parallel registers of returnees preserve his name with a small spelling variant: Jaalah in Ezra, Jaala in Nehemiah.

Sons of Jaala Among the Returnees

Ezra's list of those who came back with Zerubbabel groups the family with two neighboring houses: "the sons of Jaalah, the sons of Darkon, the sons of Giddel" (Ezra 2:56). Nehemiah's parallel preserves the same trio in the same order under the shorter spelling: "the sons of Jaala, the sons of Darkon, the sons of Giddel" (Neh 7:58). Nothing further is said of him; only the family name and its place in the post-exilic register survive.