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And [one] of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, [was] son in law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I chased him from me.
Nehemiah 13:28 — KJV
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Nehemiah 13:28
King James Version (KJV)
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Nehemiah 13:28
Verse 28 of 31
Commentary
Commentary on Nehemiah 13:28
Theological / DevotionalThe sons of Joiada. The offender could hardly be Johanan, or Jonathan (ch. 12:10, 11), the successor of Joiada, but must have been another son whose name is not given. Eliashib, the high priest, must have been an old man by this time to have a grandson old enough to marry. That a member of the high priestly family had made such an alliance with the archenemy of Nehemiah was most annoying and humiliating to Nehemiah.
Sanballat. See on ch. 2:10. On Eliashib’s contemptible connections with the other enemy of Nehemiah, Tobiah, see ch. 13:4-9.
Chased him from me. This probably means that Nehemiah forced the offender to leave the country and become an exile. We may suppose that he refused to repudiate his foreign wife, and preferred to take refuge with Sanballat in Samaria.
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