Topic: Persons Of The Bible --  Eliakim

The name "Eliakim" means "God rises" in Hebrew. The name also means "whom God will raise up" or "raised up by God."

A person named "Eliakim" was the son of Melea (Luke 3:30), and probably grandson of Nathan.

A person named "Eliakim" was the son of Abiud, of the posterity of Zerubbabel (Matt. 1:13).

A person named "Eliakim" was the son of Hilkiah, who was sent to receive the message of the invading Assyrians and report it to Isaiah (2 Kings 18:18; 19:2; Isa. 36:3; 37:2).

A person named "Eliakim" served in an office as governor of the palace of Hezekiah he succeeded Shebna (Isa. 22:15-25). He was a good man (Isa. 22:20; 2 Kings 18:37), and had a splendid and honourable career. As master of Hezekiah's household ("over the house," as) (Isaiah 36:3) (2 Kings 18:18,26,37) (B.C. 713.) Eliakim as a good man, 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)

Derived from Easton's and Smith's Bible Dictionaries

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