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ELIASHIB

(Heb. ʾelyāsîḇ)

A personal name (lit., “God restores”) for seven individuals associated with the postexilic literature of the OT. Such names were once thought to be limited to the postexilic period, but the preexilic Arad Letters contain references to an Eliashib who held a position of responsibility in the Judean garrison.

1. A descendant of David who lived possibly sometime during the 4th century b.c.e. (1 Chr. 3:24).

2. A priest from the time of David and a descendant of Aaron, who was named 11th in importance (1 Chr. 24:12).

3. The father of Jehohanan, the high priest, to whose chamber Ezra retired to mourn the state of the exiles (Ezra 10:6). It is not clear whether this latter character is to be identified with the high priest in Neh. 12:23. Such an identification would affect the chronology of the missions of Ezra and Nehemiah.

4. A singer in the time of Ezra who had married and then divorced a non-Israelite wife (Ezra 10:24).

5. A descendant of Zattu, who had also married and divorced a non-Israelite wife (Ezra 10:27).

6. A descendant of Bani, who had married and divorced a non-Israelite wife (Ezra 10:36).

7. The high priest at the time of Nehemiah who supported Nehemiah in his program of rebuilding Jerusalem (Neh. 3:1, 20-21) and who was associated by marriage with Sanballat, Nehemiah’s opponent (13:28).

8. A Levite, descended from Jeshua; son of Joiakim and father of Joiada (Neh. 12:10).

9. A priest of the temple staff during the period of Nehemiah who allied himself with another of Nehemiah’s opponents, Tobiah (Neh. 13:4-7).

T. R. Hobbs

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ELIASHIB

Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)