Eliel

3 verses

1 Chronicles

Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite,

Eliel, and Obed, and Jasiel the Mesobaite.

And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah, were overseers under the hand of Cononiah and Shimei his brother, at the commandment of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler of the house of God.

From Easton's Bible Dictionary

Matthew George Easton, 1897

To whom God is might. (1.) A chief of Manasseh, on the east of Jordan (1 Chr. 5:24).

(2.) A Gadite who joined David in the hold at Ziklag (1 Chr. 12:11).

(3.) One of the overseers of the offerings in the reign of Hezekiah (2 Chr. 31:13).

From Smith's Bible Dictionary

William Smith, 1884

(to whom God is strength).

(1.) One of the heads of the tribe of Manasseh on the east of Jordan. (1 Chronicles 5:24)

(2.) A forefather of Samuel the prophet. (1 Chronicles 6:34)

(3.) A chief man in the tribe of Benjamin. (1 Chronicles 8:20)

(4.) Also a Benjamite chief. (1 Chronicles 8:22)

(5.) One of the heroes of David’s guard. (1 Chronicles 11:46)

(6.) Another of the same guard. (1 Chronicles 11:47)

(7.) One of the Gadite heroes who came across Jordan to David when he was in the wilderness of Judah hiding from Saul. (1 Chronicles 12:11)

(8.) A Kohathite Levite at the time of transportation of the ark from the house of Obed-edom to Jerusalem. (1 Chronicles 15:9,11) (B.C. 1043.)

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(9.) A Levite in the time of Hezekiah; one of the overseers of the offerings made in the temple. (2 Chronicles 31:13) (B.C. 726.)