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Eliab: (God is my father). 1. Son of Helon and leader of the tribe of Zebulun at the time of the census in the wilderness of Sinai. Nu 1:9; 2:7; 7:24,29 10:16 (B.C. 1490.) 2. A Reubenite, father of Dathan and Abiram. Nu 16:1,12; 26:8,9; De 11:6 3. One of David's brothers, the eldest of the family. 1Sa 16:6; 17:13,28; 1Ch 2:13 (B.C. 1063.) 4. A Levite in the time of David, who was both a "porter" and a musician on the "psaltery." 1Ch 15:18,20; 16:5 5. One of the warlike Gadite leaders who came over to David when he was in the wilderness taking refuge from Saul. 1Ch 12:9 (B.C. 1061.) 6. An ancestor of Samuel the prophet; a Kohathite Levite, son of Nahath. 1Ch 6:27 (B.C. 1250). 7. Son of Nathanael, one of the fore-fathers of Judith, and therefore belonging to the tribe of Simeon. Judith 8:1. |
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