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And I drove him away from me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/nehemiah/13.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />One of the sons of Joiada son of Eliashib the high priest had married a daughter of Sanballat the Horonite, so I banished him from my presence.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/nehemiah/13.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />And one of the sons of Jehoiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was the son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite. Therefore I chased him from me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/nehemiah/13.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />Even one of the sons of Jehoiada son of Eliashib the high priest had become a son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite. Therefore I drove him away from me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/nehemiah/13.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />And <i>one</i> of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, <i>was</i> son in law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I chased him from me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/nehemiah/13.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />And <i>one</i> of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, <i>was</i> a son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite; therefore I drove him from me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/nehemiah/13.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />Even one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, <i>became</i> a son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite, so I chased him away from me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/nehemiah/13.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />Even one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was a son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite, so I drove him away from me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/nehemiah/13.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />Even one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was a son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite, so I drove him away from me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/nehemiah/13.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />And even one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was a son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite, so I made him flee away from me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/nehemiah/13.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />One of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was a son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite, so I chased him away from me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/nehemiah/13.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Even one of the sons of Jehoiada, son of the high priest Eliashib, had become a son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite. So I drove him away from me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/nehemiah/13.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Even one of the sons of Jehoiada, son of Eliashib the high priest, had become a son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite. So I drove him away from me. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/nehemiah/13.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/nehemiah/13.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Jehoiada, the son of the high priest Eliashib, had a son who had married a daughter of Sanballat from Horon, and I forced his son to leave. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/nehemiah/13.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/nehemiah/13.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />Even one of Joiada's sons was a son-in-law of Sanballat from Beth Horon. (Joiada was the son of the chief priest Eliashib.) I chased Joiada's son away from me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/nehemiah/13.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Joiada was the son of Eliashib the High Priest, but one of Joiada's sons married the daughter of Sanballat, from the town of Beth Horon, so I made Joiada leave Jerusalem. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/nehemiah/13.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />One of the sons of Eliashib the high priest's son Joiada was a son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite, so I drove him away from me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/nehemiah/13.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />Even one of the sons of Jehoiada son of Eliashib the high priest had become a son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite. Therefore I drove him away from me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/nehemiah/13.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />Now one of the sons of Joiada son of Eliashib the high priest was a son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite. So I banished him from my sight. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/nehemiah/13.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/nehemiah/13.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/nehemiah/13.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />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. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/nehemiah/13.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />And [one] of the sons of Joiada son of Eliashib the high priest, [is] son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite, and I cause him to flee from off me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/nehemiah/13.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And one of the sons of Joiada son of Eliashib the high priest, is son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite, and I cause him to flee from off me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/nehemiah/13.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />And from the sons of Joiada, son of Eliashib the great priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite: and I shall cause him to flee from me.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/nehemiah/13.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And one of the sons of Joiada the son of Eliasib the high priest, was son in law to Sanaballat the Horonite, and I drove him from me. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/nehemiah/13.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />Now one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib, the high priest, was a son-in-law to Sanballat, a Horonite, and I made him flee from me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/nehemiah/13.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />One of the sons of Joiada, son of Eliashib the high priest, was the son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite! I drove him from my presence.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/nehemiah/13.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />And one of the sons of Jehoiada, son of the high priest Eliashib, was the son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite; I chased him away from me.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/nehemiah/13.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />And one of the sons of Jehoiadah, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite; therefore I chased him from me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/nehemiah/13.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And one of the sons of Yawida, son of Elishab, the High Priest, was son in law to Samblat the Khornite, and I drove him out from my presence.<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/nehemiah/13.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/nehemiah/13.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />and Elisub the high priest, <i>one</i> of the sons of Joada, <i>being</i> son-in-law of Sanaballat the Uranite, I chased him away from me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/13-28.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZsQrw7rBvgc?start=4199" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/nehemiah/13.htm">Intermarriage Forbidden</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">27</span>Must we now hear that you too are doing all this terrible evil and acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign women?” <span class="reftext">28</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/1121.htm" title="1121: ū·mib·bə·nê (Conj-w, Prep-m:: N-mpc) -- Son. From banah; a son, in the widest sense (like 'ab, 'ach, etc.).">Even one of the sons</a> <a href="/hebrew/3111.htm" title="3111: yō·w·yā·ḏā‘ (N-proper-ms) -- Jehoiada -- Joiada. A form of Yhowyada'; Jojada, the name of two Israelites.">of Jehoiada</a> <a href="/hebrew/1121.htm" title="1121: ben- (N-msc) -- Son. From banah; a son, in the widest sense (like 'ab, 'ach, etc.).">son</a> <a href="/hebrew/475.htm" title="475: ’el·yā·šîḇ (N-proper-ms) -- God restores, the name of several Isr. From 'el and shuwb; God will restore; Eljashib, the name of six Israelites.">of Eliashib</a> <a href="/hebrew/1419.htm" title="1419: hag·gā·ḏō·wl (Art:: Adj-ms) -- Great. Or gadol; from gadal; great; hence, older; also insolent.">the high</a> <a href="/hebrew/3548.htm" title="3548: hak·kō·hên (Art:: N-ms) -- Priest. Active participle of kahan; literally, one officiating, a priest; also an acting priest.">priest</a> <a href="/hebrew/2860.htm" title="2860: ḥā·ṯān (N-ms) -- A relative by marriage, a circumcised child. From chathan; a relative by marriage; figuratively, a circumcised child.">had become a son-in-law</a> <a href="/hebrew/5571.htm" title="5571: lə·san·ḇal·laṭ (Prep-l:: N-proper-ms) -- A Samaritan leader. Of foreign origin; Sanballat, a Persian satrap of Samaria.">to Sanballat</a> <a href="/hebrew/2772.htm" title="2772: ha·ḥō·rō·nî (Art:: N-proper-ms) -- Inhab. of Beth-horon. Patrial from Choronayim; a Choronite or inhabitant of Choronaim.">the Horonite.</a> <a href="/hebrew/1272.htm" title="1272: wā·’aḇ·rî·ḥê·hū (Conj-w:: V-Hifil-ConsecImperf-1cs:: 3ms) -- To go through, flee. A primitive root; to bolt, i.e. Figuratively, to flee suddenly.">Therefore I drove him away</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: mê·‘ā·lāy (Prep-m:: 1cs) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications.">from me.</a> </span><span class="reftext">29</span>Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezra/10-18.htm">Ezra 10:18-19</a></span><br />Among the descendants of the priests who had married foreign women were found these descendants of Jeshua son of Jozadak and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah. / They pledged to send their wives away, and for their guilt they presented a ram from the flock as a guilt offering.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-3.htm">Deuteronomy 7:3-4</a></span><br />Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, / because they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods. Then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and He will swiftly destroy you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_kings/11-1.htm">1 Kings 11:1-2</a></span><br />King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women. / These women were from the nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods.” Yet Solomon clung to these women in love.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/malachi/2-11.htm">Malachi 2:11</a></span><br />Judah has broken faith; an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the LORD’s beloved sanctuary by marrying the daughter of a foreign god.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_samuel/2-12.htm">1 Samuel 2:12-17</a></span><br />Now the sons of Eli were wicked men; they had no regard for the LORD / or for the custom of the priests with the people. When any man offered a sacrifice, the servant of the priest would come with a three-pronged meat fork while the meat was boiling / and plunge it into the pan or kettle or cauldron or cooking pot. And the priest would claim for himself whatever the meat fork brought up. This is how they treated all the Israelites who came to Shiloh. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_kings/2-27.htm">1 Kings 2:27</a></span><br />So Solomon banished Abiathar from the priesthood of the LORD and thus fulfilled the word that the LORD had spoken at Shiloh against the house of Eli.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/leviticus/21-14.htm">Leviticus 21:14</a></span><br />He is not to marry a widow, a divorced woman, or one defiled by prostitution. He is to marry a virgin from his own people,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/numbers/25-6.htm">Numbers 25:6-8</a></span><br />Just then an Israelite man brought to his family a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses and the whole congregation of Israel while they were weeping at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. / On seeing this, Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, got up from the assembly, took a spear in his hand, / followed the Israelite into his tent, and drove the spear through both of them—through the Israelite and on through the belly of the woman. So the plague against the Israelites was halted,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_chronicles/19-2.htm">2 Chronicles 19:2</a></span><br />Jehu son of Hanani the seer went out to confront him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD? Because of this, the wrath of the LORD is upon you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_corinthians/6-14.htm">2 Corinthians 6:14-17</a></span><br />Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness? / What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? / What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.” ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/10-37.htm">Matthew 10:37</a></span><br />Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/5-11.htm">1 Corinthians 5:11-13</a></span><br />But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a verbal abuser, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat. / What business of mine is it to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside? / God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked man from among you.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/9-13.htm">1 Corinthians 9:13-14</a></span><br />Do you not know that those who work in the temple eat of its food, and those who serve at the altar partake of its offerings? / In the same way, the Lord has prescribed that those who preach the gospel should receive their living from the gospel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_timothy/3-5.htm">1 Timothy 3:5</a></span><br />For if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how can he care for the church of God?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_timothy/5-20.htm">1 Timothy 5:20</a></span><br />But those who persist in sin should be rebuked in front of everyone, so that the others will stand in fear of sin.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">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.</p><p class="hdg">And one.</p><p class="hdg">Joiada.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/nehemiah/12-10.htm">Nehemiah 12:10,22</a></b></br> And Jeshua begat Joiakim, Joiakim also begat Eliashib, and Eliashib begat Joiada, … </p><p class="hdg">Eliashib.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/nehemiah/3-1.htm">Nehemiah 3:1</a></b></br> Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they builded the sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even unto the tower of Meah they sanctified it, unto the tower of Hananeel.</p><p class="hdg">son in law.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/nehemiah/13-4.htm">Nehemiah 13:4,5</a></b></br> And before this, Eliashib the priest, having the oversight of the chamber of the house of our God, <i>was</i> allied unto Tobiah: … </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/nehemiah/6-17.htm">Nehemiah 6:17-19</a></b></br> Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters unto Tobiah, and <i>the letters</i> of Tobiah came unto them… </p><p class="hdg">Sanballat.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/nehemiah/2-19.htm">Nehemiah 2:19</a></b></br> But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard <i>it</i>, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What <i>is</i> this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?</p><p class="hdg">I chased.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/nehemiah/13-25.htm">Nehemiah 13:25</a></b></br> And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, <i>saying</i>, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters unto your sons, or for yourselves.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/101-8.htm">Psalm 101:8</a></b></br> I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/proverbs/20-8.htm">Proverbs 20:8,26</a></b></br> A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes… </p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/nehemiah/13-26.htm">Cause</a> <a href="/2_samuel/2-19.htm">Chased</a> <a href="/nehemiah/12-46.htm">Chief</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/33-2.htm">Drove</a> <a href="/nehemiah/13-7.htm">Eliashib</a> <a href="/nehemiah/13-7.htm">Eli'ashib</a> <a href="/nehemiah/13-10.htm">Flee</a> <a href="/nehemiah/3-25.htm">High</a> <a href="/nehemiah/2-19.htm">Horonite</a> <a href="/nehemiah/2-19.htm">Hor'onite</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/24-22.htm">Jehoi'ada</a> <a href="/nehemiah/12-22.htm">Joiada</a> <a href="/nehemiah/13-3.htm">Law</a> <a href="/nehemiah/13-13.htm">Priest</a> <a href="/nehemiah/6-14.htm">Sanballat</a> <a href="/nehemiah/6-14.htm">Sanbal'lat</a> <a href="/nehemiah/6-18.htm">Son-In-Law</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/esther/1-18.htm">Cause</a> <a href="/job/18-18.htm">Chased</a> <a href="/esther/1-8.htm">Chief</a> <a href="/job/24-2.htm">Drove</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/3-24.htm">Eliashib</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/3-24.htm">Eli'ashib</a> <a href="/job/9-25.htm">Flee</a> <a href="/esther/1-20.htm">High</a> <a href="/nehemiah/2-10.htm">Horonite</a> <a href="/nehemiah/2-10.htm">Hor'onite</a> <a href="/jeremiah/29-26.htm">Jehoi'ada</a> <a href="/nehemiah/3-6.htm">Joiada</a> <a href="/esther/1-8.htm">Law</a> <a href="/psalms/110-4.htm">Priest</a> <a href="/nehemiah/2-10.htm">Sanballat</a> <a href="/nehemiah/2-10.htm">Sanbal'lat</a> <a href="/genesis/19-12.htm">Son-In-Law</a><div class="vheading2">Nehemiah 13</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/nehemiah/13-1.htm">Upon the reading of the law, separation is made from the mixed multitude.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">4. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/nehemiah/13-4.htm">Nehemiah, at his return, causes the chambers to be cleansed.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">10. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/nehemiah/13-10.htm">He reforms the offices in the house of God;</a></span><br><span class="reftext">15. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/nehemiah/13-15.htm">the violation of the Sabbath;</a></span><br><span class="reftext">23. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/nehemiah/13-23.htm">and the marriages with the strange wives.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/nehemiah/13.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/nehemiah/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/nehemiah/13.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div><b>Even one of the sons of Jehoiada son of Eliashib the high priest</b><br>Jehoiada was a prominent priestly figure, and Eliashib was the high priest during Nehemiah's time. The high priest held significant religious authority in Israel, responsible for maintaining the sanctity of the temple and the purity of worship. This connection highlights the gravity of the situation, as it involves the priestly lineage, which was expected to uphold the highest standards of religious and cultural integrity. The involvement of Eliashib's family in compromising alliances reflects a broader issue of spiritual and cultural decline among the leadership.<p><b>had become a son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite</b><br>Sanballat was a known adversary of Nehemiah, opposing the rebuilding of Jerusalem's walls. He was a Samaritan leader, and the term "Horonite" likely refers to his origin from Horonaim in Moab. This marriage alliance with Sanballat represents a significant breach of Israelite law, which prohibited intermarriage with foreign nations that could lead to idolatry and cultural assimilation (<a href="/deuteronomy/7-3.htm">Deuteronomy 7:3-4</a>). Such alliances were seen as threats to the religious purity and identity of the Jewish people, as they often led to the introduction of foreign gods and practices.<p><b>Therefore I drove him away from me</b><br>Nehemiah's response was decisive and uncompromising. By driving away the son-in-law, Nehemiah was upholding the law and protecting the community from potential spiritual corruption. This action reflects the broader theme of Nehemiah's leadership, characterized by a commitment to reform and the restoration of covenant faithfulness. Nehemiah's actions can be seen as a type of Christ, who also cleansed the temple and called for purity among God's people (<a href="/john/2-13.htm">John 2:13-17</a>). This phrase underscores the importance of maintaining holiness and the willingness to take difficult stands for the sake of spiritual integrity.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/n/nehemiah.htm">Nehemiah</a></b><br>The governor of Jerusalem who led the rebuilding of the city's walls and instituted religious reforms.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/j/joiada.htm">Joiada</a></b><br>The son of Eliashib, who was the high priest during Nehemiah's time.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/e/eliashib.htm">Eliashib</a></b><br>The high priest who had familial ties with Tobiah, an adversary of Nehemiah.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/s/sanballat_the_horonite.htm">Sanballat the Horonite</a></b><br>A persistent opponent of Nehemiah's efforts to rebuild Jerusalem and restore its religious practices.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/j/jerusalem.htm">Jerusalem</a></b><br>The city where Nehemiah's reforms and rebuilding efforts took place.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/g/guarding_against_compromise.htm">Guarding Against Compromise</a></b><br>Nehemiah's actions remind us of the importance of maintaining spiritual integrity and not compromising with those who oppose God's work.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/l/leadership_and_accountability.htm">Leadership and Accountability</a></b><br>Nehemiah demonstrates strong leadership by holding even the high priest's family accountable, showing that no one is above God's law.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_danger_of_unequal_yoking.htm">The Danger of Unequal Yoking</a></b><br>The marriage alliance with Sanballat highlights the dangers of forming close relationships with those who do not share the same faith and values.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_purity_in_worship.htm">The Importance of Purity in Worship</a></b><br>Nehemiah's reforms emphasize the need for purity in worship and adherence to God's commands, which can be compromised by alliances with those outside the faith.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/r/resolute_action_in_the_face_of_opposition.htm">Resolute Action in the Face of Opposition</a></b><br>Nehemiah's decisive action in driving away the son-in-law of Sanballat serves as an example of taking firm steps to protect the community's spiritual health.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_nehemiah_13.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Nehemiah 13</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/nehemiah's_role_in_rebuilding_walls.htm">What was Nehemiah's role in rebuilding Jerusalem's walls?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/is_nehemiah_4_1-3's_account_reliable.htm">Nehemiah 4:1-3: How reliable is the account of mocking enemies if there's limited external historical evidence of such opposition during the wall's rebuilding?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/where's_the_evidence_for_eliashib's_sheep_gate.htm">In Nehemiah 3:1, where is the archaeological evidence for Eliashib and the Sheep Gate he supposedly rebuilt?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/names_of_jerusalem's_gates.htm">What are the names of Jerusalem's gates?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/nehemiah/13.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(28) I<span class= "bld"> chased him from me.</span>--Eliashib himself was allied by marriage to Tobiah, and one of his grandsons was now brought into prominence as married to Sanballat. Him Nehemiah drove into exile.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/nehemiah/13.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 28.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">One of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib</span>. See <a href="/nehemiah/12-10.htm">Nehemiah 12:10</a>. Eliashib seems to have been still living, though one of his grandsons was of age to contract a marriage. <span class="cmt_word">Was son-in-law to Sanballat, the Horonite</span>. Had therefore married one of his daughters, while Eliashib himself was connected by marriage with Tobiah. The defection of the high priestly family from those principles which Ezra and Nehemiah regarded as vital is only too apparent. <span class="cmt_word">I chased him from me</span>. <span class="accented">i.e.</span> I forced him to quit 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. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/nehemiah/13-28.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">Even one of the sons</span><br /><span class="heb">וּמִבְּנֵ֨י</span> <span class="translit">(ū·mib·bə·nê)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw, Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1121.htm">Strong's 1121: </a> </span><span class="str2">A son</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of Jehoiada</span><br /><span class="heb">יוֹיָדָ֤ע</span> <span class="translit">(yō·w·yā·ḏā‘)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3111.htm">Strong's 3111: </a> </span><span class="str2">Jehoiada -- Joiada </span><br /><br /><span class="word">son</span><br /><span class="heb">בֶּן־</span> <span class="translit">(ben-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1121.htm">Strong's 1121: </a> </span><span class="str2">A son</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of Eliashib</span><br /><span class="heb">אֶלְיָשִׁיב֙</span> <span class="translit">(’el·yā·šîḇ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_475.htm">Strong's 475: </a> </span><span class="str2">Eliashib -- 'God restores', the name of several Israelites</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the high</span><br /><span class="heb">הַגָּד֔וֹל</span> <span class="translit">(hag·gā·ḏō·wl)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Adjective - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1419.htm">Strong's 1419: </a> </span><span class="str2">Great, older, insolent</span><br /><br /><span class="word">priest</span><br /><span class="heb">הַכֹּהֵ֣ן</span> <span class="translit">(hak·kō·hên)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3548.htm">Strong's 3548: </a> </span><span class="str2">Priest</span><br /><br /><span class="word">had become a son-in-law</span><br /><span class="heb">חָתָ֖ן</span> <span class="translit">(ḥā·ṯān)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2860.htm">Strong's 2860: </a> </span><span class="str2">A relative by marriage, a circumcised child</span><br /><br /><span class="word">to Sanballat</span><br /><span class="heb">לְסַנְבַלַּ֣ט</span> <span class="translit">(lə·san·ḇal·laṭ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5571.htm">Strong's 5571: </a> </span><span class="str2">Sanballat -- a Samaritan leader</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the Horonite.</span><br /><span class="heb">הַחֹרֹנִ֑י</span> <span class="translit">(ha·ḥō·rō·nî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2772.htm">Strong's 2772: </a> </span><span class="str2">Horonite -- a Choronite</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Therefore I drove him away</span><br /><span class="heb">וָאַבְרִיחֵ֖הוּ</span> <span class="translit">(wā·’aḇ·rî·ḥê·hū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - first person common singular | third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1272.htm">Strong's 1272: </a> </span><span class="str2">To bolt, to flee suddenly</span><br /><br /><span class="word">from me.</span><br /><span class="heb">מֵעָלָֽי׃</span> <span class="translit">(mê·‘ā·lāy)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-m | first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5921.htm">Strong's 5921: </a> </span><span class="str2">Above, over, upon, against</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/nehemiah/13-28.htm">Nehemiah 13:28 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/nehemiah/13-28.htm">Nehemiah 13:28 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/nehemiah/13-28.htm">Nehemiah 13:28 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/nehemiah/13-28.htm">Nehemiah 13:28 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/nehemiah/13-28.htm">Nehemiah 13:28 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/nehemiah/13-28.htm">Nehemiah 13:28 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/nehemiah/13-28.htm">Nehemiah 13:28 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/nehemiah/13-28.htm">Nehemiah 13:28 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/nehemiah/13-28.htm">Nehemiah 13:28 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/nehemiah/13-28.htm">Nehemiah 13:28 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/nehemiah/13-28.htm">OT History: Nehemiah 13:28 One of the sons of Joiada (Neh Ne) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/nehemiah/13-27.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Nehemiah 13:27"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Nehemiah 13:27" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/nehemiah/13-29.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Nehemiah 13:29"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Nehemiah 13:29" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>