Eliel in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(to whom God is strength). 1. One of the heads of the tribe of Manasseh on the east of Jordan. 1Ch 5:24 2. A forefather of Samuel the prophet. 1Ch 6:34 3. A chief man in the tribe of Benjamin. 1Ch 8:20 4. Also a Benjamite chief. 1Ch 8:22 5. One of the heroes of David's guard. 1Ch 11:46 6. Another of the same guard. 1Ch 11:47 7. One of the Gadite heroes who came across Jordan to David when he was in the wilderness of Judah hiding from Saul. 1Ch 12:11 8. A Kohathite Levite at the time of transportation of the ark from the house of Obed-edom to Jerusalem. 1Ch 15:9,11 (B.C. 1043.) 9. A Levite in the time of Hezekiah; one of the overseers of the offerings made in the temple. 2Ch 31:13 (B.C. 726.)