Elie'zar. (God is his help).
1. Abraham's chief servant, called by him, "Eliezer of Damascus." Gen_15:2. (B.C. 1857).
2. Second son of Moses and Zipporah, (B.C. 1523), to whom his father gave this name, because "the God of my father was mine help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh." Exo_18:4; 1Ch_23:15; 1Ch_23:17; 1Ch_26:25.
3. One of the sons of Becher, the son of Benjamin. 1Ch_7:8.
4. A priest, in the reign of David. 1Ch_15:24.
5. Son of Zichri, ruler of the Reubenites, in the reign of David. 1Ch_27:16.
6. Son of Dodavah, of Mareshah in Judah, 2Ch_20:37, a prophet, who rebuked Jehoshaphat, for joining himself with Ahaziah, king of Israel. (B.C. 895).
7. A chief Israelite, whom Ezra sent with others, from Ahava to Cesiphia, to induce some Levites and Nethinim, to accompany him to Jerusalem. Ezr_8:16. (B.C. 459).
8, 9, 10. A priest, a Levite, and an Israelite, of the sons of Harim, who had married foreign wives. Ezr_10:18; Ezr_10:23; Ezr_10:31.
11. Son of Jorim, in the genealogy of Christ. Luk_3:29.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863