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Eliezer
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
or ELIEZER (cf. Eleazar). 1. Abraham’s chief servant, a Damascene ( Genesis 15:2 AV [Note: Authorized Version.] , RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] . The construction here is difficult, but the words can hardly be rendered as a double proper name as RV [Note: Revised Version.] , ‘Dammesek Eliezer.’ Whatever the exact construction, the words, unless there is a corruption in the text, must be intended to suggest that Eliezer was in some way connected with Damascus). This same Eliezer is prob. the servant referred to in Genesis 24:2 . A son of Moses by Zipporah; so named to commemorate the deliverance of Moses from Pharaoh ( Exodus 18:4 , 1 Chronicles 23:15; 1 Chronicles 23:17 ). 3. The son of Becher, a Benjamite ( 1 Chronicles 7:8 ). 4. The son of Zichri, captain of the tribe of Reuben in David’s reign ( 1 Chronicles 27:16 ). 5. The son of Dodavahu of Mareshah, who prophesied the destruction of the fleet of ships which Jehoshaphat built in co-operation with Ahaziah ( 2 Chronicles 20:37 ). 6. One of the ‘chief men’ whom Ezra sent to Casiphia to find Levites and Nethinim to join the expedition to Jerusalem ( Ezra 8:16 f. [= 1Es 8:43 Eleazar ]). 7. 8. 9. A priest, a Levite, and a son of Harim, who had married ‘strange women’ ( Ezra 10:18 . [= 1E Esther 9:19 Eleazar ] Esther 9:23 Esther 9:23; Esther 9:31 Esther 9:31 [= Esther 9:32 Esther 9:32 Elionas ]). 10. One of the priests appointed to blow with the trumpets before the ark of God when David brought it from the house of Obed-edom to Jerus. ( 1 Chronicles 15:24 ). 11. A Levite ( 1 Chronicles 26:25 ). 12. An ancestor of our Lord ( Luke 3:29 ).
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Hastings, James. Entry for 'Eliezer'. Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/hdb/e/eliezer.html. 1909.
