Eliel

(to whom God is strength).

• One of the heads of the tribe of Manasseh on the east of Jordan. (1 Chronicles 5:24)
• A forefather of Samuel the prophet. (1 Chronicles 6:34)
• A chief man in the tribe of Benjamin. (1 Chronicles 8:20)
• Also a Benjamite chief. (1 Chronicles 8:22)
• One of the heroes of David’s guard. (1 Chronicles 11:46)
• Another of the same guard. (1 Chronicles 11:47)
• One of the Gadite heroes who came across Jordan to David when he was in the wilderness of Judah hiding from Saul. (1 Chronicles 12:11)
• A Kohathite Levite at the time of transportation of the ark from the house of Obed-edom to Jerusalem. (1 Chronicles 15:9,11) (B.C. 1043.)
• A Levite in the time of Hezekiah; one of the overseers of the offerings made in the temple. (2 Chronicles 31:13) (B.C. 726.)