died at the advanced age of 98 years, (1 Samuel 4:18) In addition to the office of high priest he
held that of judge. He died at the advanced age of 98 years, (1 Samuel 4:18) overcome by the
disastrous intelligence that the ark of God had been taken in battle by the Philistines, who had also
slain his sons Hophni and Phinehas.
Eli, Eli, Lama Sabachthani
The Hebrew form, as Eloi, Eloi, etc., is the Syro-Chaldaic (the common language in use by the
Jews in the time of Christ) of the first words of the twenty-second Psalm; they mean “My God, my
God, why hast thou forsaken me?”
Eliab
(God is my father).
•Son of Helon and leader of the tribe of Zebulun at the time of the census in the wilderness of Sinai.
(Numbers 1:9; 2:7; 7:24,29; 10:16) (B.C. 1490.)
•A Reubenite, father of Dathan and Abiram. (Numbers 16:1,12; 26:8,9; 11:6)
•One of David’s brothers, the eldest of the family. (1 Samuel 16:6; 17:13,28; 1 Chronicles 2:13)
(B.C. 1063.)
•A Levite in the time of David, who was both a “porter” and a musician on the “psaltery.” ( 1
Chronicles 15:18,20; 16:5)
•One of the warlike Gadite leaders who came over to David when he was in the wilderness taking
refuge from Saul. (1 Chronicles 12:9) (B.C. 1061.)
•An ancestor of Samuel the prophet; a Kohathite Levite, son of Nahath. (1 Chronicles 6:27) (B.C.
1250).
•Son of Nathanael, one of the fore-fathers of Judith, and therefore belonging to the tribe of Simeon.
Judith 8:1.
Eliada
(known by God).
•One of David’s sons; according to the lists, the youngest but one of the family born to him after
his establishment in Jerusalem. (2 Samuel 5:16; 1 Chronicles 3:8) (B.C. after 1033.)
•A mighty man of war, a Benjamite, who led 200,000 of his tribe to the army of Jehoshaphat. ( 2
Chronicles 17:17) (B.C. 945.)
Eliadah
father of Rezon, the captain of a marauding band that annoyed Solomon. (1 Kings 11:23)
Eliah
(my God is Jehovah).
•A Benjamite, a chief man of the tribe. (1 Chronicles 8:27)
•One of the Bene-Elam, an Israelite (i.e. a layman) who had married a foreign wife. (Ezra 10:26)
Eliahba
(whom God hides), on of the thirty of David’s guard. (2 Samuel 23:32; 1 Chronicles 11:33)
(B.C. 1046.)
Eliakim
(raised up by God.).
•Son of Hilkiah, master of Hezekiah’s household (“over the house,” as) (Isaiah 36:3) (2 Kings
18:18,26,37) (B.C. 713.) Eliakim was a good man, as appears by the title emphatically applied to
him by God, “my servant Eliakim,” (Isaiah 22:20) and also in the discharge of the duties of his
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