A servant of Abraham who was from the city of Damascus. Before Abraham had his sons, Ishmael and Isaac, he followed the customs of his time by choosing Eliezer to inherit his property (Genesis 15:2).
→ View encyclopedia entryMoses and Zipporah’s second son (Exodus 18:4; 1 Chronicles 23:15–17).
→ View encyclopedia entryBenjamite and Becher’s son (1 Chronicles 7:8).
→ View encyclopedia entryOne of seven priests who played trumpets while walking in front of the ark of the covenant (the sacred chest containing God's law) when King David moved it to Jerusalem (1 Chronicles 15:24).
→ View encyclopedia entryZichri’s son and a chief officer in Reuben’s tribe (1 Chronicles 27:16).
→ View encyclopedia entryA prophet whose father was Dodavahu from the town of Mareshah. He warned King Jehoshaphat of Judah that God was not pleased with his alliance with King Ahaziah of Israel (2 Chronicles 20:37).
→ View encyclopedia entryOne of the leaders Ezra sent to meet with Iddo in a place called Casiphia. Ezra asked them to bring back Levites to work in God's temple in Jerusalem (Ezra 8:16).
→ View encyclopedia entryThree men of Israel—a priest, a Levite, and an Israelite—who were encouraged by Ezra to divorce their foreign wives during the time after the exile in Babylon (Ezra 10:18, 23, 31).
→ View encyclopedia entryAn ancestor of Christ (Luke 3:29).
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Eliezer
This term has multiple meanings in the Bible:
From Tyndale Bible Dictionary, adapted by Mission Mutual. CC BY-SA 4.0.