This document is about Elkanah (Berekiah's Grandfather). For other homonyms, please refer to the Elkanah document.
He was Berekiah's grandfather, who settled after returning from the Babylonian captivity.
1 Chr 9:16and Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun; and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, who lived in the villages of the Netophathites.