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ELIEZER

(Heb. ʾĕlîʿezer) (also ELEAZAR)

1. The oldest and most trusted of Abraham’s servants (Gen. 15:2-3). Ancient Near Eastern texts contain references to the practice of adopting servants as heirs in the case of childlessness, and the story of Abraham here reflects such influences. Later, Eliezer chooses a wife for Isaac (Gen. 24:2).

2. The younger of the two sons of Moses and Zipporah (Exod. 18:4). In 1 Chr. 23:17 Eliezer becomes the head of a levitical family and has a son named Rehabiah. 1 Chr. 26:25 lists Jeshaiah, Joram, Zichri, and Shelomoth as Eliezer’s descendants.

3. A mighty warrior, one of the sons of Becher and a member of the tribe of Benjamin (1 Chr. 7:8).

4. One of the priests who blows the trumpet before the ark of the covenant (1 Chr. 15:24).

5. The son of Zichri and chief officer of the Reubenites under the reign of David (1 Chr. 27:16).

6. The son of Dodavahu of Mareshah, who prophesies the destruction of King Jehoshaphat of Judah for his alliance with Ahaziah, Israel’s wicked king (2 Chr. 20:35-37).

7. One of the priests sent by Ezra to Casiphia to find “ministers for the house of our God” in Jerusalem (Ezra 8:16-17).

8. One of the sons of priests who had pledged to divorce their foreign wives and provide a guilt offering (Ezra 10:18; called Eleazar at 1 Esdr. 9:19).

9. A Levite who divorced his foreign wife (Ezra 10:23).

10. One of the sons of Harim who divorced his foreign wife (Ezra 10:31).

11. An ancestor of Jesus (Luke 3:29).

Henry L. Carrigan, Jr.

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ELIEZER

Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)