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Eleazar (III)

III. ELEAZAR, the son of Dodo, one of those three gallant men belonging to David, who passed through the camp of the Philistins, to bring him water from the 2 Sam. xxiii. 9. 1 Chr. xi. 16, 17.well of Beth-lehem. This is the same Eleazar, who alone put the army of the Philistines one day to a stand, and made so great a slaughter of them, that his Sword 1 Chr. xi. 13. 2 Sam. xxiii. 10. 1 Macc. vi. 43. Joseph. Antiq. l. 12. c. 14.stuck to his hand.

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