(3) The high priest in the time of Nehemiah. He, with his brethren the priests, helped in the rebuilding of the wall (Nehemiah 3:1). But later he was "allied unto Tobiah" the Ammonite (Nehemiah 13:4) and allowed that enemy of Nehemiah the use of a great chamber in the temple (Nehemiah 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 (Nehemiah 13:28).
See SANBALLAT.
(4, 5, 6) Three Israelites, one a "singer," who had married foreign wives (Ezra 10:24,27,36).
(7) Father of Jehohanan (Ezra 10:6); probably identical with (3) above. Called Eliasib in 1 Esdras 9:1.
F. K. Farr