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3. David's oldest brother (; ; ; ). Abihail his daughter (granddaughter?) married her second cousin Rehoboam, and bore him three children (). Eliab betrayed anger without a cause toward David, when seeking his brethren's welfare ("Why camest thou down hither, and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness?"); also "pride and naughtiness of heart," the very sins he charged David with ("I know thy pride," etc.; he knew himself still less than he did David); uncharitable surmising instead of the love that thinketh no evil ("thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle".) David meekly replied, "Is there not a cause?" (see ; -7.) . A Levite porter and musician on the psaltery (; ; ).
5. A Gadite leader who joined David in the wilderness in his flight from Saul ().
6. Ancestor of Samuel, a Kohathite Levite, son of Nahath (). Called Elihu , also Eliel .