Bible Person
Meaning: the God of conversion · Male · 2 cross references
This Eliashib entry refers to the priestly official connected with Tobiah's chamber arrangement in Nehemiah 13, not to the earlier wall-building high priest. He belongs to the compromised leadership setting of Nehemiah's reform corrections. First appears in Neh 13:4.1
AI summary: This Eliashib matters because the cross references place him at the point where sacred space is misused in favor of an outsider allied with powerful local interests. His accommodation of Tobiah becomes a concrete example of how compromise can enter the heart of worshiping life through leadership failure. Taken together, the material presents this Eliashib as a priestly figure whose lapse exposes the need for Nehemiah's sharp reform.1
Central Figure
Eliashib
Meaning: the God of conversion
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Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.