elihu Summary and Overview

whose God is he. (1.) "The son of Barachel, a Buzite" (Job 32:2), one of Job's friends. When the debate between Job and his friends is brought to a close, Elihu for the first time makes his appearance, and delivers his opinion on the points at issue (Job 32-37). (2.) The son of Tohu, and grandfather of Elkanah (1 Sam. 1:1). He is called also Eliel (1 Chr. 6:34) and Eliab (6:27). (3.) One of the captains of thousands of Manasseh who joined David at Ziklag (1 Chr. 12:20). (4.) One of the family of Obed-edom, who were appointed porters of the temple under David (1 Chr. 26:7).

(whose God is he (Jehovah)). 1. One of the interlocutors in the book of Job. [JOB] He is described as the "son of Baerachel the Buzite." 2. A forefather of Samuel the prophet. #1Sa 1:1| 3. In #1Ch 27:18| Elihu "of the brethren of David" is mentioned as the chief of the tribe of Judah. 4. One of the captains of the thousands of Manasseh, #1Ch 12:20| who followed David to Ziklag after he had left the Philistine army on the eve of the battle of Gilboa. 5. A Korhite Levite in the time of David. #1Ch 26:7|

ELI'HU (God is he; i.e. Jehovah). 1. An ancestor of Samuel the prophet. 1 Sam 1:1. 2. The eldest brother of David. 1 Chr 27:18. 3. A chief of Manasseh who followed David to Ziklag. 1 Chr 12:20. 4. A Korhite Levite in the time of David. 1 Chr 26:7. 5. The son of Baraehel the Buzite, a friend of Job, and a kind of arbitrator in the controversy between him and three other of his acquaintances, who had come to sympathize with him in his calamities. Job 32:2. Elihu was the youngest of them all, and therefore diffident about giving his opinion in the presence of such old men, but still, in opposition to the three friends, who accused Job of secret sins, he sets forth in soothing and yet faithful discourse the idea of the disciplinary nature of suffering, and therefore tells Job to submit himself in loving confidence unto Jehovah's chastening hand. See Job.

("God is Jehovah".) 1. Son of Barachel ("God blesses"); the names indicating the piety of the family and their separation from idolatry) the Buzite (Buz being a region of Arabia Deserta, Jeremiah 25:23, called from Buz son of Nahor, Abraham's brother), of the kindred of Ram (probably Aram, nephew of Buz): Job 32:2. He is the main human solver of the problem of the book, which ultimately is resolved, by Jehovah's appearance, into a question of His absolute sovereignty that cannot err. Elihu's reasoning is not condemned, as is that of the three elder friends and previous speakers, for whom and not for Elihu Job is directed to sacrifice and intercede (See JOB). 2. Son of Tohu, ancestor of Samuel (1 Samuel 1:1); ELIEL in 1 Chronicles 6:34; ELIAB 1 Chronicles 6:27. 3. A captain of the thousands of Manasseh (1 Chronicles 12:20). Followed David to Ziklag after he left the Philistines before the battle of Gilboa, and aided him against the plundering Amalekites (1 Samuel 30:1; 1 Samuel 30:9-10; 1 Chronicles 12:20-21). 1 Chronicles 12:4. A Korhite Levite in David's time, door-keeper of the house of Jehovah, son of Shemaiah, of Obed-Edom's family (1 Chronicles 26:6-8), men of strength for service.