Nehemiah 13:4

Verse 4. Over this things, and so forth Or, he was faulty in this thing, or in this kind. Challoner.—He was the source of all this evil. Hebrew “and before this Eliasib,” and so forth It is probable that he was a different person from the high priest, (Usher) who had married his grandson to the daughter of Sanaballat, the intimate friend of Tobias. Calmet.—The latter was a persecutor, and prefigured heretics, as Nehemias did our Saviour, who drove traffickers out of the temple. V. Bede in Esd. L. iii. 19. Worthington.