Elasah
ELASAH (ĕl'a-sah, Heb. ’el‘āsâh, God has made)
One of the sons of Pashhur who was guilty of marrying foreign women (Ezra.10.22).Son of Shaphan, one of the men sent by Jeremiah from Jerusalem with a message of advice to the exiles in Babylon (Jer.29.3).
ELASA ĕl’ ə sə (̓Ελασά), the place where Judas Maccabaeus lay encamped when Bacchides advanced upon him in 160 b.c. (1 Macc 9:5). In the ensuing battle, Judas was killed. The site is identified with Il’asa, near Beth-Horon.
ELASAH ĕl’ ə sə (אֶלְעָשָֽׂה, LXX Jer 36:3 ̓Ελεασα; 2 Esd 10:22 ̓Ηλασα; God has made). 1. One of Pashhur’s sons who were among the priests who put away their foreign wives (Ezra 10:22).
2. A son of Shaphan, who when sent to Nebuchadnezzar by Zedekiah, carried a letter from Jeremiah to the exiles (Jer 29:3). (This is really the same name as Eleasah, q.v.)
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915)
el’-a-sa, ele-a’sa (Alasa; the King James Version Eleasa):
The place where Judas pitched his camp before the battle in which he was overwhelmed and slain (APC 1Macc 9:5).
It probably corresponds to the modern Khirbet il`asa, between the two Beth-horons.
(’el`asah, "God has made"):
(1) An Israelite who had married a foreign wife (Ezr 10:22).
(2) A son of Shaphan, by whom, with Gemariah, King Zedekiah sent a message to Babylon (Jer 29:3).
See Eleasah.