Category:Eliab

---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary

Eliab - To whom God is father. (1.) A Reubenite, son of Pallu (Numbers 16:1, Numbers 16:12; Numbers 26:8, Numbers 26:9; Deuteronomy 11:6). (2.) A son of Helon, and chief of the tribe of Zebulun at the time of the census in the wilderness (Numbers 1:9; Numbers 2:7). (3.) The son of Jesse, and brother of David (1 Samuel 16:6). It was he who spoke contemptuously to David when he proposed to fight Goliath (1 Samuel 17:28). (4.) One of the Gadite heroes who joined David in his stronghold in the wilderness (1 Chronicles 12:9).