(raised up by God)

1. Son of Hilkiah, master of Hezekiah’s household (“over the house,” as in Isaiah 36:3; 2 Kings 18:18, 26, 37). Eliakim was a good man, as appears by the title emphatically applied to him by God, “my servant Eliakim” (Isaiah 22:20), and also in the discharge of the duties of his high station, in which he acted as a “father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah” (Isaiah 22:21).
2. The original name of Jehoiakim king of Judah (2 Kings 23:34; 2 Chronicles 36:4)
3. A priest in the days of Nehemiah, who assisted at the dedication of the new wall of Jerusalem (Nehemiah 12:41)
4. Eldest son of Abiud—or Judah, brother of Joseph—and father of Azor (Matthew 1:13)
5. Son of Melea and father of Jonan (Luke 3:30-31)