Person Old Testament
Eliada
Also known as Eliada =ESV, NIV; Eliadah =KJV
Eliada was the father of Rezon, who became an adversary to King Solomon. Mentioned once in Scripture, at 1 Kings 11:23.
Why it matters. Father of Rezon, an adversary of Solomon
- Primary passages
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-30 by the FaithGraph team
About Eliada
Eliada is briefly mentioned in 1Ki.11.23 as the father of Rezon, who became an adversary to King Solomon. Rezon was an Aramean commander who fled from his master, Hadadezer, the king of Zobah, after David had defeated Hadadezer's army. Rezon gathered a band of men and became the leader of a raiding party. He later established himself as king in Damascus and posed a threat to Israel during Solomon's reign.
Description from STEPBible TIPNR (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0, lightly reformatted. This is background reference material, not Scripture and not a FaithGraph editorial claim.
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Family
Family links from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0). Where the dataset marks an identification as uncertain, the mark is kept. Matthew and Luke give different genealogies for Jesus; see the Lineage page, which never merges them.
- Children
- Rezon
Appears in Scripture
Named in 1 verse across 1 book. Occurrence data from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0); references only, no translation text.
1 Kings (1 verse)