Elpaal
אֶלְפַּעַל/el-PAY-al/
“God has wrought, or God is his wages”
Summary
A Benjamite, son of Shaharaim by his wife Hushim, and progenitor of numerous descendants who settled near Lydda and Aijalon.
☩Family and Descendants
Elpaal was the second son of Shaharaim (a Benjamite who had lived in Moab) by his wife Hushim. He became the father of a numerous posterity whose descendants settled in the region near Lydda (Lod) and on the outposts of the Benjamite hills as far as Aijalon, near the Danite border. The intermarriage between the tribes is suggested by the fact that Hushim was also a name associated with a Danite family.
Key verses:1 Chronicles 8:11-121 Chronicles 8:18
References
- 1.James Orr (ed.), "Elpaal," in International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, vol. II (Howard-Severance Company, 1915).
- 2.Andrew Robert Fausset, "Elpaal," in The Englishman's Critical and Expository Bible Cyclopædia (Hodder & Stoughton, 1878).