Eliashib אֶלְיָשִׁיב
Priest during King David's reign
Biography
Eliashib is mentioned briefly in 1Ch.24.12 as the head of the eleventh priestly division organized by King David. David divided the priests into twenty-four divisions to ensure a systematic and orderly service in the temple. Each division was responsible for serving in the temple for a week at a time, twice a year. As the head of the eleventh division, Eliashib would have been responsible for overseeing his division's duties and ensuring that they fulfilled their responsibilities in the temple service.
In Scripture
1 biblical book1 Chronicles 1 verse
- 1 Chronicles 24:12
"the eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim,"
Names & Aliases
| Form | Language | Script | Strong's |
|---|---|---|---|
| Named | Hebrew | אֶלְיָשִׁיב | H0475H |
Eliashib
(3) The high priest in the time of Nehemiah. He, with his brethren the priests, helped in the rebuilding of the wall (Ne 3:1). But later he was "allied unto Tobiah" the Ammonite (Ne 13:4) and allowed that enemy of Nehemiah the use of a great chamber in the temple (Ne 13:5); and one of his grandsons, a son of Joiada, married a daughter of Sanballat the Horonite and was for this expelled from the community by Nehemiah (Ne 13:28).
See SANBALLAT.
(4, 5, 6) Three Israelites, one a "singer," who had married foreign wives (Ezr 10:24,27,36).
(7) Father of Jehohanan (Ezr 10:6); probably identical with (3) above. Called Eliasib in /APC 1Esdras 9:1.
F. K. Farr
e-li'-a-sib.
See ELIASHIB.
e-li-as'-i-bus (Eliasibos, the King James Version Eleazurus):
One of the holy singers who had marr