Nehemja 13:4

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Men en tid förut hade prästen Eljasib, som var satt att förestå kammaren i vår Guds hus, och som var en frände till Tobia,

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Eliashib: Nehemiah 13:7, Nehemiah 12:10

having the oversight of: Heb. being set over, Nehemiah 12:44

allied: Nehemiah 13:28, Nehemiah 6:17, Nehemiah 6:18

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 9:28 - the charge 1 Chronicles 23:28 - for the service Ezra 9:2 - the hand Nehemiah 3:20 - Eliashib Job 31:34 - the contempt Jeremiah 41:10 - to the Malachi 3:8 - In

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And before this,.... Before the above law was read, and observed and acted upon:

Eliashib the priest; whom some take to be a common priest; so Bishop Usher a; but he seems rather to be the high priest, by comparing it with Nehemiah 13:28,

having the oversight of the chamber of the house of our God; which has led some to the notion of his being a common priest; but chamber may be put for chambers, and those for the whole house or temple, which the high priest had the greatest concern in, and oversight of:

was allied to Tobiah; the servant and Ammonite, an inveterate enemy of the Jews, Nehemiah 2:10, having married a daughter of Shecaniah, and his son a daughter of Meshullam, who were both priests, and so as it seems related to Eliashib, Nehemiah 6:18.

a Annal. Vet. Test. p. 200.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The relations of Eliashib, the high priest Nehemiah 3:1, with Tobiah and Sanballat will account for the absence of any reference to him either in Neh. 8–10, or in Nehemiah 12:27-47.

The chamber - The entire outbuilding, or “lean-to,” which surrounded the temple on three sides 1 Kings 6:5-10.

Allied - i. e, “connected by marriage.” Tobiah was married to a Jewess Nehemiah 6:18, who may have been a relation of Eliashib; and his son Johanan was married to another Nehemiah 6:18, of whom the same may be said.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Nehemiah 13:4. Eliashib the priest — Perhaps this was a different person from Eliashib the high priest; but there is no indubitable evidence that he was not the same. If he was high priest, he was very unfaithful to the high charge which he had received; and a reproach to the priesthood. He had married his grandson to Sanballat's daughter: this produced a connection with Tobiah, the fast friend of Sanballat; in whose favour he polluted the house of God, giving him one of the chambers for his ordinary residence, which were appointed for the reception of the tithes, oblations, &c., that came to the house of God.