Elioenai

(my eyes are toward the Lord).

• Elsest son of Neariah, the son of Shemaiah. (1 Chronicles 3:23,24)

• Head of a family of the Simeonites. (1 Chronicles 4:36) (B.C. after 1451.)

• Head of one of the families of the sons of Becher, the son of Benjamin. (1 Chronicles 7:8)

• A Korhite Levite, and one of the doorkeepers of the “house of Jehovah.” (1 Chronicles 26:3)

• A priest in the days of Ezra, one of those who had married foreign wives. (Ezra 10:22) (B.C. 446.) Possibly the same as

• An Israelite of the sons of Zattu, who had also married a foreign wife. (Ezra 10:27) (B.C. 458.)

Toward Jehovah are my eyes, the name of several men mentioned in the Old Testament (1 Chr. 7:8; 4:36; Ezra 10:22, 27). Among these was the eldest son of Neariah, son of Shemaiah, of the descendants of Zerubbabel. His family are the latest mentioned in the Old Testament (1 Chr. 3:23, 24).