Eliashib
Eliashib [1]
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.
