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ELIEZER (cf. Eleazar).—1. Abraham’s chief servant, a Damascene (Gen_15:2 AV [Note: Authorized Version.] , RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] . The construction here is difficult, but the words can hardly be rendered as a double proper name as RV [Note: Revised Version.] , ‘Dammesek Eliezer.’ Whatever the exact construction, the words, unless there is a corruption in the text, must be intended to suggest that Eliezer was in some way connected with Damascus). This same Eliezer is prob. the servant referred to in Gen_24:2. A son of Moses by Zipporah; so named to commemorate the deliverance of Moses from Pharaoh (Exo_18:4, 1Ch_23:15; 1Ch_23:17). 3. The son of Becher, a Benjamite (1Ch_7:8). 4. The son of Zichri, captain of the tribe of Reuben in David’s reign (1Ch_27:16). 5. The son of Dodavahu of Mareshah, who prophesied the destruction of the fleet of ships which Jehoshaphat built in co-operation with Ahaziah (2Ch_20:37). 6. One of the ‘chief men’ whom Ezra sent to Casiphia to find Levites and Nethinim to join the expedition to Jerusalem (Ezr_8:16 f. [= 1Es_8:43 Eleazar]). 7. 8. 9. A priest, a Levite, and a son of Harim, who had married ‘strange women’ (Ezr_10:18. [= 1Es_9:19 Eleazar] 1Es_9:23; 1Es_9:31 [= 1Es_9:32 Elionas]). 10. One of the priests appointed to blow with the trumpets before the ark of God when David brought it from the house of Obed-edom to Jerus. (1Ch_15:24). 11. A Levite (1Ch_26:25). 12. An ancestor of our Lord (Luk_3:29).