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Eliashib

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

ē̇ -lı̄´a -shib ( אלישׁיב , 'elyāshı̄bh , "God restores"):

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

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

(3) The high priest in the time of Nehemiah. He, with his brethren the priests, helped in the rebuilding of the wall (Nehemiah 3:1 ). But later he was "allied unto Tobiah" the Ammonite (Nehemiah 13:4 ) and allowed that enemy of Nehemiah the use of a great chamber in the temple (Nehemiah 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 (Nehemiah 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 1 Esdras 9:1.

Bibliography Information
Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. Entry for 'Eliashib'. International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​isb/​e/eliashib.html. 1915.