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Eliel

Eliel (to whom God is strength). 1. One of the heads of the tribe of Manasseh on the east of Jordan. (1Chronicles 5:24) 2. A forefather of Samuel the prophet. (1Chronicles 6:34) 3. A chief man in the tribe of...

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Eliel (to whom God is strength).

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

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

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

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

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

6. Another of the same guard. (1Chronicles 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. (1Chronicles 12:11)

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

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

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