ELIADAH
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ELLMI
least very doubtful whether that word, which literalh' means viastt7;2)roprietor, husband, and is often used in the earlier Scriptures inotlensively (^sec Gesenius,77(es. p. •>-24), in David's time had acquired the bad sense which Baal-\vors\n\> in Israel afterwards imparted to it. It is much to the present point that in this very chapter (ver. 11) David does not object to employ the word bvj. in the name Baal-i^eradm, in commemora- tion of a victory vouchsafed to him by the Lord (see 2 Sam. V, 20, w-here the naminj; of the place is as- cril)ed to David himself). It is possilde that this ap- pellation of his son might itself have had reference to that signal victory. The name appears to be omitted by Josephus in his list of David's family {Ant. vii, 3, 3), unless he be there called Eiien (EXiiji'). — Kitto, s. V. ; Smith, s. v.
2. (Sept. 'EXiaca, v. r. 'EXiacai ; Vulg. Eliada.) Apparently an Aramite of Zobah, the father of Rezon, which latter was captain of a marauding band that annoyed Solomon (1 Kings xi, 23, where the name is
.Anglicized " Eliadah"). B.C. ante 975.
3. (Sept. 'E\ia5a, Vulg*. Elinda.) A mighty man of war (b^n "n'la?), a Benjamite, who led 200,000 (?) archers of his tribe to the army of Jehoshaphat (2 Chron. xvii, 17). B.C. 945. See jEnosiiAPiiAT.
Eli'adah (1 Kings xi, 23), a less correct mode of Anglicizing the name Eliadi (q. v.).
Eli'adas ('E/\(oc)«c< Vulg. Eliadas), one of "the sons of Zamoth" who divorced his Gentile wife after the restoration from Babylon (1 Esdr. ix, 28) ; evi- dentlv the Elioenai (q. v.) of the Heb. text (Ezra x, 27). "
Eli'adun (HXiavovo v. r. 'HXifttioi' j'jYulg. omits), a name given as that of the fatlier of Joda, whose sons and lirethren assisted in rebuilding the Temple after the return from Babylon (1 Esdr. v, 58); apparently a corru])tion for the IIenadau (q. v.) of the Hebrew narrative (Ezra iii, 19).
Eli'ah (1 Chron. viii, 27; Ezra x, 2G), a less cor- rect mode of Anglicizing the nam» of Elijah (q. v.), but referring to others than the prophet
Eli
Eli/ackh
«/3a,Yulg. Eliab(i), a Shaalbonite; one of David's thirtv chief wari'iors (2 Sam. xxiii, 32; 1 Chron. xi, 33). " Ef.C. 1016.
Eli'akim (Heb. Elyakhn , d"|r'^5N, whom Godmll raise iqj ; Sept. 'EXin/c/// and 'YAiaKiijx; N. T. 'EXia- (Cfijit ; Josephus, 'E\t«K-i/(or, yl?i^ x, 1, 2; Vulg. Elia- ciiii), the name of five men.
1. The son of Melea and father of .Tonan, in the genealogy (q. v.) of Christ (Lulie iii, SO) ; probably tlie grandson of Nathan, of the private line of David's descent (Strong's Harm, and Expos, p. 16). B.C. con- siderably post 1013.
2. Son of Ililkiah, and prefect of the palace under king Hezekiah, who sent him to receive the message of the invading Assyrians, and report it to Isaiah (2 Kings xviii, 18 ; xix, 2 ; Isa. xxxvi, 3, 11, 22 ; xxxvii, 2). B.C. 713. He succeeded Shebna in this office after the latter had been ejected from it (Gro- tius thinks by reason of his leprosy) as a punishment for his pride (Isa. xxii, 15-20). Eliakim was a good man, as appears by the title empliatically applied to him by God, "my servant Eliakim" (Isa. xxii, 20), and as was evinced by his conduct on the occasion of Sennacherib's invasion (2 Kings xviii, 37; xix, 1-5), and also in the discharge of tlie duties of his high sta- tion, in which he acted as a "father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah'' (Isa. xxii, 21). It was as a special mark of the divine approba- tion of his character and conduct, of which, however, no further details have been preserved to us, that he was raised to the post of authority and dignity which
Eli'ahba (Heb. Eliyachha, N^H^bx, but in Chron. hjaMa\ Xan^bx, whom God mil hide ; Sept. 'E\l-
he held at the time of the Assyrian invasion. What this office was has been a subject of some perplexity to commentators. The ancients, including the Sept. and Jerome, understood it of the priestly office, as ap- pears by the rendering of "iSO (Isa. xxii, 15; A. V. " treasurer") by Trfloroi/jupioi', the "priest's chamber," by the former, and of T'^Sin"?:^" ("over the house," as Isa. xxxvi, 3) by '■' 2Jrajwsiius tempU," by the lat- ter. Hence Nicephorus, as well as the author of the Alexandrian Chronicle, includes in the lift of high- priests Somnas or Sobnas (i. e. Shebna), and Eliakim, identifying the latter with Shallum or Meshullam. But it is certain from the description of the office in Isa. xxii, and especially from the expression in ver. 22, " The key of the house of David will I ]ay upon his shoulder," that it was the king's house, and not the house of God, of which Eliakim was prafect, as Ahishar had been in the reign of Solomon (1 Kings iv, 6), and Azrikam in that of Ahaz (2 Chron. xxviii, 7). With this agrees both all that is said, and all that is not said, of Eliakim's functions. The office seems to have been the highest under the king, as was the case in Egypt, when Pharaoh said to Josejih, " Thou shalt be over my house Cr'^^'b^*) . . . only in the throne will I be greater than thou" (Gen. xli, 40 ; comi>. Ixxxix, 4). In 2 Chron. xxviii, 7, the officer is called "governor (l"^?!) of the house." It is clear that the "scribe" was inferior to him, for Shebna, when degraded from the prajfecture of the house, act- ed as scribe under Eliakim (2 Kings xviii, 37). The whole description of it too by Isaiah implies a place of great eminence and power. This descriptiiai is transferred in a mystical or spiritual sense to Christ the son of Daviid in Rev. iii, 7, thus making Eliakim in some sense typical of Christ. The true meaning of "pb, soken', is very doubtful. " Friend," i. c. of the kiuL, and "steward of the provisions," are the two most probable significations. See Treasurer. Eli- akim's career was a moft honorable and splendid one. Most commentators agree that Isa. xxii, 25 does not apply to him, but to Shebna. — Smith, s. v.