ELIASHIB

(E·liʹa·shib) [My God Returns (Brings Back)].

1. A Levite from the sons of Aaron to whom the lot of the 11th priestly division fell in the time of David.​—1Ch 24:1, 5, 6, 12.

2. Father of a certain Jehohanan.​—Ezr 10:6.

3. A Levite temple singer among those dismissing their foreign wives in the time of Ezra.​—Ezr 10:16, 17, 23, 24, 44.

4. Descendant of Zattu also among the men sending their foreign wives away.​—Ezr 10:16, 17, 27, 44.

5. Descendant of Bani likewise among those putting their foreign wives away.​—Ezr 10:16, 17, 34, 36, 44.

6. Grandson of Jeshua, who returned with Zerubbabel from Babylonian exile. Eliashib was high priest in the days of Nehemiah and shared with the other priests in rebuilding the Sheep Gate of the wall of Jerusalem. (Ne 12:1, 10; 3:1) During Nehemiah’s absence Eliashib himself defiled the temple by making a dining hall in the courtyard of the temple for his relative Tobiah the Ammonite. But Nehemiah, upon his return, threw out Tobiah’s furniture and had the dining halls cleansed. Nehemiah also chased away one of the sons of Joiada the son of Eliashib because of his being married to a daughter of Sanballat the Horonite.​—Ne 13:4, 5, 7-9, 28.

7. Son of Elioenai, a descendant of King David.​—1Ch 3:1, 5, 10, 24.