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Then Ezra rose from the place before the house of God and went into the chamber belonging to Jehohanan, son of Eliashib, and when he got there, he ate no bread and drank no water, for he mourned because of the unfaithfulness of the exiles.
[This chapter describes four towers and eleven gates. Of these gates, six were repaired, see verses 1, 2, 6, 13-15. Nehemiah's account begins at the Sheep Gate in the northeastern part of the wall and continues counterclockwise to the west. The Sheep Gate is the gate near the Pool of Bethesda, see . The phrase "beside them" (Hebr. v´al jado), literally "at their hand," is used 16 times in this chapter and indicates the joint effort in the rebuilding.] Then Eliashiv, the high priest, and his brothers the priests went up and built the Sheep Gate. They consecrated it and set its doors in place. They also
[built the wall] to the "Tower of the Hundred"
(Hebr. migdal ha-meah) and consecrated it to
Chananel's Tower ("Tower of God's Favor" – Hebr. migdal chananel).
[; ; ] After him, Baroch, son of Zakkai, eagerly repaired another section from the corner of the pillar to the door of the house of the high priest Elishiv.
After him, Meremoth, son of Uriah, son of Hakkoz, repaired another section of the wall from the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest to the end of Eliashib's house.
[The high priest] Jeshua became the father of Jojakim,
Jojakim became the father of Eljashib,
Eljashib became the father of Jojada,
In the days of Eliashib, Joiada, Jochanan, and Jaddua, the heads of the families of the Levites were recorded, as were the priests, during the reign of Darius the Persian. [This probably refers to Darius the Great, 522-486 BC, or Darius II, who reigned from 424 to 404 BC.]
The heads of the families of Levi's children are recorded in the Book of Chronicles [] up to the time of Johanan, the son of Eljasib. [He was high priest in Jerusalem and is mentioned in a letter from Elephantine in Egypt dated 408 BC, see also .]
Some time before, the priest Eljashib, who was close (a friend, relative, or well-wisher) to Tobiah (Hebr. Tovijaho), had been appointed to oversee the chambers of our God's house. [Tobia was an Ammonite who was married to a Jewish woman, see . He is introduced in and opposed Nehemiah.]
and returned to Jerusalem. There I learned of all the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah, for he had prepared a room for him in the courts of the house of God.
A son of Jehoiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was the son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite. I drove him away from me.
