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Eliashib

Easton's Bible Dictionary

1

Whom God will restore.

2

A priest, head of one of the courses of the priests of the time of David (1 Chr 24:12).

3

A high priest in the time of Ezra and Nehemiah (Neh 12:22, 23). He rebuilt the eastern city wall (3:1), his own mansion being in that quarter, on the ridge Ophel (3:20, 21). His indulgence of Tobiah the Ammonite provoked the indignation of Nehemiah (13:4, 7).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

e-li'-a-shib ('elyashibh, "God restores"):

(1) A descendant of David (1 Chr 3:24).

(2) Head of the eleventh course of priests (1 Chr 24:12).

(3) The high priest in the time of Nehemiah. He, with his brethren the priests, helped in the rebuilding of the wall (Neh 3:1). But later he was "allied unto Tobiah" the Ammonite (Neh 13:4) and allowed that enemy of Nehemiah the use of a great chamber in the temple (Neh 13:5); and one of his grandsons, a son of Joiada, married a daughter of Sanballat the Horonite and was for this expelled from the community by Nehemiah (Neh 13:28).

See Sanballat.

(4, 5, 6) Three Israelites, one a "singer," who had married foreign wives (Ezra 10:24; Ezra 10:27; Ezra 10:36).

(7) Father of Jehohanan (Ezra 10:6); probably identical with (3) above. Called Eliasib in /APC 1Esdras 9:1.

F. K. Farr

See also

Person Eliashib (1 Chr 24,12) Person Eliashib (Neh 12,10)

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