Eliashib

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  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).
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Eliashib, the God of conversion