Eliashib

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ē̇-lī´a-shib (אלישׁיב, 'elyāshībh, “God restores” or "whom God will restore"):

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

(2) A priest, head of the eleventh course of priests of the time of David (1 Chronicles 24:12).

(3) The high priest in the time of Ezra and Nehemiah (Nehemiah 12:22, Nehemiah 12:23). He, with his brethren the priests, helped in the rebuilding of the eastern city wall (Nehemiah 3:1), his own mansion being in that quarter, on the ridge Ophel (Nehemiah 3:20, Nehemiah 3:21). But later he was “allied unto Tobiah” the Ammonite (Nehemiah 13:4) and provoked the indignation of Nehemiah (Nehemiah 13:4, Nehemiah 13:7) because he 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.