Elah:
(an oak, strength).
(1.) The son and successor of Baasha king of Israel (1 Kings 16:8-10). His reign lasted for little more than a year; (compare verse 8 with 10). (B.C. 928‐7) He was killed while drunk, by Zimri, in the house of his steward Azra, who was probably a confederate in the plot.
(2.) Father of Hoshea, the last king of Israel (2 Kings 15:30; 17:1). (B.C. 729 or before.)
(3.) One of the dukes of Edom (Genesis 36:41; 1 Chronicles 1:52).
(4.) Shimei ben‐Elah was Solomon's commissariat officer in Benjamin (1 Kings 4:18). (B.C. 1013)
(5.) A son of Caleb the son of Jephuneh (1 Chronicles 4:15). (B.C. 1450)
(6.) Son of Uzzi, a Benjamite (1 Chronicles 9:8) and one of the chiefs of the tribe at the settlement of the country. (B.C. 536)
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