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Eliashib
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
or ELIASHIB . 1. The high priest who was contemporary with Nehemiah. He was son of Joiakim, grandson of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, the contemporary of Zerubbabel ( Nehemiah 12:10 , Ezra 3:1 ), and father of Joiada ( Nehemiah 12:10; Nehemiah 13:28 ). He assisted in the rebuilding of the walls of Jerus, during Nehemiah’s governorship ( Nehemiah 3:1 ). He can have had no sympathy with the exclusive policy of Ezra and Nehemiah, for both he himself and members of his family allied themselves with the leading foreign opponents of Nehemiah. See Joiada, No. 2, Tobiah, and Sanballat. 2. A singer of the time of Ezra, who had married a foreign wife ( Ezra 10:24 ); called in Esther 9:24 Esther 9:24 Eliasibus . 3. An Israelite of the family of Zattu ( Ezra 10:27; in 1E Esther 9:28 Eliasimus ); and 4. another of the family of Bani ( Ezra 10:36; called in 1Es 9:34 Enasibus ), who had married foreign wives. 5. A son of Elioenai ( 1 Chronicles 3:24 ). 6. The name of a priestly house ( 1 Chronicles 24:12 ). 7. Father of Jehohanan, to whose chamber in the Temple Ezra resorted ( Ezra 10:6 ); possibly identical with No. 1.
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Hastings, James. Entry for 'Eliashib'. Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/hdb/e/eliashib.html. 1909.
