Smith's Bible Dictionary

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•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.)
•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.)
Elienai
(my eyes are toward God) a descendant of Benjamin, and a chief man in the tribe. (1 Chronicles
8:20)
Eliezar
(God is his help).
•Abraham’s chief servant, called by him “Eliezer of Damascus.” (Genesis 15:2) (B.C. 1857.)
•Second son of Moses and Zipporah (B.c. 1523), to whom his father gave this name because “the
God of my father was mine help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh.” (Exodus 18:4; 1
Chronicles 23:15,17; 26:25)
•One of the sons of Becher, the son of Benjamin. (1 Chronicles 7:8)
•A priest in the reign of David. (1 Chronicles 15:24)
•Son of Zichri, ruler of the Reubenites in the reign of David. (1 Chronicles 27:16)
•Son of Dodavah, of Mareshah in Judah, (2 Chronicles 20:37) a prophet, who rebuked Jehoshaphat
for joining himself with Ahaziah king of Israel. (B.C. 895.)
•A chief Israelite whom Ezra sent with others from Ahava to Cesiphia, to induce some Levites and
Nethinim to accompany him to Jerusalem. (Ezra 8:16) (B.C. 459.) 8,9,10. A priest, a Levite and
an Israelite of the sons of Harim, who had married foreign wives. (Ezra 10:18,23,31)
•Son of Jorim, in the genealogy of Christ. (Luke 3:29)
Elihoenai
(my eyes are toward Jehovah), son of Zerahiah, who with 200 men returned from the captivity
with Ezra. (Ezra 8:4) (B.C. 459.)
Elihoreph
(God is his reward), one of Solomon’s scribes. (1 Kings 4:3)
Elihu
(whose God is he (Jehovah)).
•One of the interlocutors in the book of Job. [Job, Job, Book Of] He is described as the “son of
Baerachel the Buzite.”
•A forefather of Samuel the prophet. (1 Samuel 1:1)
•In (1 Chronicles 27:18) Elihu “of the brethren of David” is mentioned as the chief of the tribe of
Judah.
•One of the captains of the thousands of Manasseh, (1 Chronicles 12:20) who followed David to
Ziklag after he had left the Philistine army on the eve of the battle of Gilboa.
•A Korhite Levite in the time of David. (1 Chronicles 26:7)
Elijah
(my God is Jehovah) has been well entitled “the grandest and the most romantic character that
Israel ever produced.” “Elijah the Tishbite,... of the inhabitants of Gilead” is literally all that is
given us to know of his parentage and locality. Of his appearance as he “stood before” Ahab (B.C.
910) with the suddenness of motion to this day characteristic of the Bedouins from his native hills,
we can perhaps realize something from the touches, few but strong, of the narrative. His chief
characteristic was his hair, long and thick, and hanging down his back. His ordinary clothing

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