Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib: and when he came thither, he did eat no bread, nor drink water: for he mourned because of the transgression of them that had been carried away.
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Gill's Exposition
Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God,.... Departed from thence:
and went into the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib; who was of the family of the high priest. Eliashib was grandson of…
Barnes' Notes
The “chamber of Johanan” was probably one of those attached externally to the temple (see 1Ki 6:5-6). Eliashib was the grandson of Jeshua Ezr 3:2, and was high priest under Nehemiah Neh 3:1. He could…
Adam Clarke
Johanan the son of Eliashib - Eliashib was high priest, and was succeeded in that office by his son Joiada, Neh 12:10. Probably Johanan here is the same as Jonathan in Nehemiah, who was the son of…
We have here an account of the proceedings upon the resolutions lately taken up concerning the strange wives; no time was lost; they struck when the iron was hot, and soon set the wheels of…
Cambridge Bible
The Assembly and the Reform
6. went into the chamber See on Ezr 8:29, and cf. Neh 13:4.
Johanan the son of Eliashib R.V. Jehohanan the son of Eliashib. The best-known Eliashib of this period is the…
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