Elah’s family.
His family as Theographic Bible Metadata lists it; each name opens its own page.
Who Elah was.
The son and successor of Baasha, king of Israel (1 Kings 16:8-10). He was killed while drunk by Zimri, one of the captains of his chariots, and was the last king of the line of Baasha. Thus was fullfilled the prophecy of Jehu (6, 7, 11-14).
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).
Places in Elah’s story.
- Tirzahnamed with him in 2 verses
Each opens its own page: where it is on the map and every verse.
All 4 verses that name this Elah.
1 Kings 4
- 1 Kings 16:6So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah: and Elah his son reigned in his stead.
- 1 Kings 16:8In the twenty and sixth year of Asa king of Judah began Elah the son of Baasha to reign over Israel in Tirzah, two years.
- 1 Kings 16:13For all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, by which they sinned, and by which they made Israel to sin, in provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities.
- 1 Kings 16:14Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
Other people called Elah.
Elah, the father of Hoshea, the last king of Israel.
Named in 4 verses.
- 2 Kings 15:30And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.
- 2 Kings 17:1In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years.
- 2 Kings 18:1Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.
- 2 Kings 18:9And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.
Elah, One of the Edomite chiefs or “dukes” of Mount Seir.
Named in 2 verses.
Elah, Father of Shimei.
Named in 1 verse.
Elah, the second of the three sons of Caleb, the son of Jephunneh.
Named in 1 verse.
- 1 Chronicles 4:15And the sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh; Iru, Elah, and Naam: and the sons of Elah, even Kenaz.
Elah, Son of Uzzi.
Named in 1 verse.
- 1 Chronicles 9:8And Ibneiah the son of Jeroham, and Elah the son of Uzzi, the son of Michri, and Meshullam the son of Shephatiah, the son of Reuel, the son of Ibnijah;