Eliashib:
whom God will restore. (1.) A priest, head of one of the courses of the priests of the time of David (1Ch 24:12).
(2.) 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 (Neh 13:4,7).
Eliashib:
the God of conversion
Eliashib:
e-li'-a-shib ('elyashibh, "God restores"):
(1) A descendant of David (1Ch 3:24).
(2) Head of the eleventh course of priests (1Ch 24:12).
(3) The high priest in the time of Nehemiah. He, with his brethren the priests, helped in the rebuilding of the wall (Ne 3:1). But later he was "allied unto Tobiah" the Ammonite (Ne 13:4) and allowed that enemy of Nehemiah the use of a great chamber in the temple (Ne 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 (Ne 13:28).
(4, 5, 6) Three Israelites, one a "singer," who had married foreign wives (Ezr 10:24,27,36).
(7) Father of Jehohanan (Ezr 10:6); probably identical with (3) above. Called Eliasib in #/APC 1Esdras 9:1.
Written by F. K. Farr
See SANBALLAT
Eliashib:
(whom God restores).
(1.) A priest in the time of King David eleventh in the order of the "governors" of the sanctuary (1 Chronicles 24:12).
(2.) One of the latest descendants of the royal family of Judah (1 Chronicles 3:24).
(3.) High priest at Jerusalem at the time of the rebuilding of the walls under Nehemiah (Nehemiah 3:1; 3:20-21). (B.C. 446)
(4.) A singer in the time of Ezra who had married a foreign wife (Ezra 10:24).
(5.) A son of Zattu (Ezra 10:27) and
(6.) A son of Bani (Ezra 10:36) both of whom had transgressed in the same manner. (B.C. 458)
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