Nehemiah 13:28-29

Nehemiah's Final Reforms

28 And one of the sons of d Jehoiada, the son of e Eliashib the high priest, was the son-in-law of f Sanballat the Horonite. Therefore I chased him from me. 29 g Remember them, O my God, because they have desecrated the priesthood h and the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.

  1. Cross References
    Nehemiah 12:10 - 11
    And Jeshua was the father of Joiakim, Joiakim the father of Eliashib, Eliashib the father of Joiada.
    Nehemiah 12:22
    In the days of Eliashib, Joiada, Johanan, and Jaddua, the Levites were recorded as heads of fathers' houses; so too were the priests in the reign of Darius the Persian.
  2. Cross References
    Nehemiah 13:4
    Now before this, Eliashib the priest, who was appointed over the chambers of the house of our God, and who was related to Tobiah.
    Nehemiah 13:7
    And came to Jerusalem, and I then discovered the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah, preparing for him a chamber in the courts of the house of God.
    Nehemiah 3:1
    Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and they built the Sheep Gate. They consecrated it and set its doors. They consecrated it as far as the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the Tower of Hananel.
    Nehemiah 13:4
    Now before this, Eliashib the priest, who was appointed over the chambers of the house of our God, and who was related to Tobiah.
    Nehemiah 13:7
    And came to Jerusalem, and I then discovered the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah, preparing for him a chamber in the courts of the house of God.
  3. Cross References
    Nehemiah 2:10
    But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite servant heard this, it displeased them greatly that someone had come to seek the welfare of the people of Israel.
    Nehemiah 2:19
    But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite servant and Geshem the Arab heard of it, they jeered at us and despised us and said, "What is this thing that you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?
  4. Cross References
    Nehemiah 6:14
    Remember Tobiah and Sanballat, O my God, according to these things that they did, and also the prophetess Noadiah and the rest of the prophets who wanted to make me afraid.
  5. Cross References
    Malachi 2:4
    So shall you know that I have sent this command to you, that my covenant with Levi may stand, says the Lord of hosts.
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