Dict: easton - Eliashib

easton:

Eliashib @ whom God will restore.

(1.) A priest, head of one of the courses of the priests of the time of David ( kjv@1Chronicles:24:12).

(2.) A high priest in the time of Ezra and Nehemiah kjv@Nehemiah: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).