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The Definition of the word Eliashib

Eliashib

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)."


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