ELIADA a compound of 9N, Cod, and to know [` Dens cognovit,' according to Simonis, Onomast. p. 488. 'Whom God knoweth,' Gesenius, Lex. (Robinson) s. v. ; so Fiirst, Hebr. Wort. i. 92]). This name occurs as s. One of the younger sons of David, born to him in Jerusalem ; the child (as it would seem) of one of his wives, and not of a concubine ' • in 2 Sam. v. 16 [LXX. 'EXcoa ; Vulg. Elioda]; Chron. iii. S [LXX. 'EXiad ; Alex. 'EXte5d ; Vulg. Eliada]. In s Chron. xiv. 7 the name appears in the form of [` Beeliada,' A. V. ; Baaliada, TT: Vulg.], q. d. Dominus cognovit, Whom the Lard knoweth (see Simonis, Onomasticon, s. v., p. 46o ; j/Z being the Syriac form of 7Y3, Lord). This curious reading of the Masoretic text is not, ever, indisputable : De Rossi's Cod. 186, .primd mann, reads the LXX. 'EX/cLU, and the Pcschito „ (Elidaa). On the strength of these authorities De Rossi (after Dathius, Lib. Hirt.
V. T p. 654), pronounces in favour of assimilating this passage to the other two, and refers to the improbability of David's using the names 9N and promiscuously (see De Rossi's Var. Lee!. V T Hebraic iv. ; also BEELIADA). We must not, however, in the interest of careful criticism, too hastily succumb to arguments of this kind. As to MSS., the four or five, which Kennicott adduces, all support" the common text of I Chron. xiv. 7 ; the authority of the LXX. is neutralised by the Codd. Alex. and Frid. August., the former of which has BaXXmaci, and the latter BEEXeySae, evi dently corroborating the Masoretic text ; as does the Vulg. Baaliada. As to the difficulty of David's using a name which contained 7j11 for one of its elements, it is at least very doubtful whether that word, which literally means master, proprietor, husband, and is often used in the earlier scriptures inoffensively (see Gesenius, Thes. 224), in David's
time had acquired the bad sense, which Baal worship in Israel afterwards imparted to it. It is much to the present point, that in this very chapter (ver. I s), David does not object to employ the Word 1/3 in the name Baaliserazim, in commemoration of a victory vouchsafed to him by the Lord (see 2 Sam. V. 20, where the naming of the place is as cribed to David himself). It is possible that this appellation of his son might itself have had refer ence to that signal victory.
2. The father of Rezon, who fled from the ser vice of Hadadezer, king of Zobah, and became a captain of Syrian marauders, and ultimately king of the country. The name is given as Eliaa'ah, with the final h, in t Kings xi. 23 ; but it is identi cal with No. I in the LXX.,.t. Vulg., and Peschito.
3. One of the two Bev jamane commanders (field-marshals perhaps) in the magnificent army of Jehoshaphat ; besides whom there were three captains of thousands' of yu da h. Eliada, whose name in the original and the versions is the same as Nos. 1. and 2, is described specially (all the five being mentioned with characteristic differences), as a mighty man of valour,' 7j3 ; while his division of the Benjamine quota of the grand army consisted of the light-armed forces, armed men with bow and shield' (2 Chron. xvii. 17), in contra distinction to the heavy-armed troops of Jehozabad. Jehoshaphat's army of the two tribes alone ap proached within a little of David's conscription under the undivided kingdom (comp. 2 Sam. xxiv. 9 with 2 Chron, xvii. 14-18) : the result is described in 2 Chron. xvii. to. Eliada's troops alone amounted to 200,000 men (see Bertheau, on Chro nicles [Clark], vol. ii. p. 3S5).—P. H.