Elihu

Narrator: Chris Genthree

Duration: 1min

• 1 min. read • grade level: 9

1. Son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram. He is introduced abruptly in the history of Job. He was young and had not spoken until Job and his three friends had ceased. His wrath was kindled against Job because he justified himself rather than God, and against his three friends because they had condemned Job though they had not understood his case. The purport of Elihu’s address is that God acts in grace and blessing to deliver man from evil, and to chastise and break him down. Job was a righteous man, but needed God’s discipline (Job 32-36).

2. Son of Tohu, and ancestor of Samuel (1 Sam. 1:1¹Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim-zophim, of mount Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite: (1 Samuel 1:1)). Apparently called both ELIAB and ELIEL in 1 Chronicles 6:27, 34²⁷Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son. (1 Chronicles 6:27)
³⁴The son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah, (1 Chronicles 6:34).

3. One of the captains of the thousands of Manasseh who resorted to David at Ziklag (1 Chron. 12:20²⁰As he went to Ziklag, there fell to him of Manasseh, Adnah, and Jozabad, and Jediael, and Michael, and Jozabad, and Elihu, and Zilthai, captains of the thousands that were of Manasseh. (1 Chronicles 12:20)).

4. Son of Shemaiah, a Korhite of the family of Obed-edom, a valiant man and one of the door-keepers (1 Chron. 26:7⁷The sons of Shemaiah; Othni, and Rephael, and Obed, Elzabad, whose brethren were strong men, Elihu, and Semachiah. (1 Chronicles 26:7)).

5. Brother of David, made ruler in Judah (1 Chron. 27:18¹⁸Of Judah, Elihu, one of the brethren of David: of Issachar, Omri the son of Michael: (1 Chronicles 27:18)). Perhaps the same as ELIAB, No. 3.

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