AHIEZER

(A·hi·eʹzer) [my brother is help].

1. Son of Ammishaddai and chieftain of the tribe of Dan selected a year after the Exodus. (Num. 1:1, 4, 12) In this capacity he assisted Moses with the census, commanded the rearguard three-tribe division when on the march, and presented his tribe’s offering on the tenth day of the inauguration of the altar at the tabernacle.—Num. 2:25; 7:66, 71; 10:25.

2. (Ahi-ezer) A son of Shemaah the Gibeathite, and head of the mighty Benjamites that came to David’s support at Ziklag.—1 Chron. 12:1-3.