Eliakim

Eliakim (meaning whom God will raise up) is the name of several men in the Old Testament, the most significant being the son of Hilkiah who served as palace administrator (asher al-habayit) under King Hezekiah of Judah. When Sennacherib's Assyrian forces besieged Jerusalem, Eliakim led the delegation that met the Rabshakeh at the conduit of the upper pool, where the Assyrian commander delivered his psychological warfare speech (2 Kings 18:18–27; Isaiah 36:3). Isaiah 22:20–25 contains a divine oracle appointing Eliakim to replace the corrupt steward Shebna: "I will clothe him with thy robe and strengthen him with thy girdle... and I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house."

Isaiah's oracle about Eliakim is notably messianic in its language — particularly the imagery of the key of the house of David laid on his shoulder (Isaiah 22:22), which Revelation 3:7 applies to Christ. A second Eliakim was the son of Abiud in Matthew's genealogy of Jesus (Matthew 1:13), and a third appears in Luke 3:30 in a different section of the Lucan genealogy.