Elihu

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)).

ELI'HU (God is he; i.e. Jehovah). An ancestor of Samuel the prophet. 1 Sam 1:1. The eldest brother of David. 1 Chr 27:18. A chief of Manasseh who followed David to Ziklag. 1 Chr 12:20. A Korhite Levite in the time of David. 1 Chr 26:7. 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.

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ELI'HU (God is he; i.e. Jehovah). An ancestor of Samuel the prophet. 1 Sam 1:1. The eldest brother of David. 1 Chr 27:18. A chief of Manasseh who followed David to Ziklag. 1 Chr 12:20. A Korhite Levite in the time of David. 1 Chr 26:7. 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.