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Smith's Bible Dictionary
•A son of Caleb the son of Jephuneh. (1 Chronicles 4:15) (B.C. 1450.)
•Son of Uzzi, a Benjamite, (1 Chronicles 9:8) s, and one of the chiefs of the tribe at the settlement
of the country. (B.C. 536.)
(an oak, strength).
•The son and successor of Baasha king of Israel. (1 Kings 16:8-10) His reign laster for little more
than a year; comp. ver. 8 with 10. (B.C. 928-7.) He was killed while drunk, by Zimri, in the house
of his steward Azra, who was probably a confederate in the plot.
•Father of Hoshea, the last king of Israel. (2 Kings 15:30; 17:1) (B.C. 729 or before.).
Elah, The Valley Of
(valley of the terebinth), the valley in which David killed Goliath. (1 Samuel 17:2,19) It lay
somewhere near Socoh of Judah and Azekah, and was nearer Ekron than any other Philistine town.
1Sam. 17.
Elam
(eternity).
•This seems to have been originally the name of a man, the son of Shem. (Genesis 10:22; 1
Chronicles 1:17) Commonly, however, it is used as the appellation of a country. (Genesis 14:1,9;
Isaiah 11:11; 21:2) The Elam of Scripture appears to be the province lying south of Assyria and
east of Persia proper, to which Herodotus gives the name of Cissia (iii. 91, v. 49, etc.), and which
is termed Susis or Susiana by the geographers. Its capital was Susa. This country was originally
people by descendants of Shem. By the time of Abraham a very important power had been built
up in the same region. It is plain that at this early time the predominant power in lower Mesopotamia
was Elam, which for a while held the place possessed earlier by Babylon, (Genesis 10:10) and
later by either Babylon or Assyria.
•A Korhite Levite in the time of King David. (1 Chronicles 26:3) (B.C. 1014.)
•A chief man of the tribe of Benjamin. (1 Chronicles 8:24)
•“Children of Elam,” to the number of 1254, returned with Zerubbabel from Babylon. (Ezra 2:7;
Nehemiah 7:12) 1Esd. 5:12. (B.C. 536 or before.) Elam occurs amongst the names of the chief of
the people who signed the covenant with Nehemiah. (Nehemiah 10:14)
•In the same lists is a second Elam, whose sons, to the same number as in the former case, returned
with Zerubbabel, (Ezra 2:31; Nehemiah 7:34) and which for the sake of distinction is called “the
other Elam.”
•One of the priests who accompanied Nehemiah at the dedication of the new wall of Jerusalem.
(Nehemiah 12:42)
Elamites
This word is found only in (Ezra 4:9) The Elamites were the original inhabitants of the country
called Elam; they were descendants of Shem, and perhaps drew their name from an actual man
Elam. (Genesis 10:22)
Elasah
(whom God made).
•A priest in the time of Ezra who had married a Gentile wife. (Ezra 10:22) (B.C. 458).
•Son of Shaphan, one of the two men who were sent on a mission by King Zedekiah to
Nebuchadnezzar at Babylon. (Jeremiah 29:3) (B.C. 594.)
Elath, Eloth
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