Eliezer son of Dodavahu אליעזר בן דודוהו
a prophet from Mareshah who foretold the wreck of Jehoshaphat's ships
Jehoshaphat, a righteous king, had one weakness all his life: he clung to the house of Ahab. He went with Ahab to Ramoth-gilead and barely survived; he married his son to Ahab's daughter, and two generations later that marriage nearly wiped out the house of David; and at the end he agreed with Ahaziah king of Israel to build ships for long voyages.
That is when Eliezer son of Dodavahu of Mareshah appears: "because you have joined with Ahaziah, the LORD has broken your works." The ships were wrecked and could not sail.
Nothing more is said of him—not where he came from, not what became of him. Mareshah is a town in the Shephelah, the same place where Asa met the Cushite army. A prophet from the provinces, one sentence, one word that came true.
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Tanakh
- Divrei HaYamim II 20:37 — the prophecy against the alliance with Achazyahu and the wreck of the ships
- Melachim I 22:49 — the same Tarshish ships that did not go — only without the prophet's name
Basis: stated in the Tanakh.