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Eliashib

Name meaning: the God of conversion (Hitchcock)

Whom God will restore. (1.) A priest, head of one of the courses of the priests of the time of David (1 Chr. 24:12).

(2.) A high priest in the time of Ezra and Nehemiah (Neh. 12:22, 23). He rebuilt the eastern city wall (3:1), his own mansion being in that quarter, on the ridge Ophel (3:20, 21). His indulgence of Tobiah the Ammonite provoked the indignation of Nehemiah (13:4, 7).

Source:Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)Public domain

Key verses

Also in Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863)

(whom God restores).

A priest in the time of King David eleventh in the order of the “governors” of the sanctuary. (1 Chronicles 24:12)

One of the latest descendants of the royal family of Judah. (1 Chronicles 3:24)

High priest at Jerusalem at the time of the rebuilding of the walls under Nehemiah. (Nehemiah 3:1,20,21) (B.C. 446.)

A singer in the time of Ezra who had married a foreign wife. (Ezra 10:24)

A son of Zattu, (Ezra 10:27) and

A son of Bani, (Ezra 10:36) both of whom had transgressed in the same manner. (B.C. 458.)

Source: Smith’s Bible Dictionary (1863) · Public domain

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