Nehemiah 13:28

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Joiada

Nehemiah 12:10

Son in law

Nehemiah 13:4

Nehemiah 6:17

Sanballat

Nehemiah 2:19

I chased

General references

Proverbs 22:10

Bible References

Joiada

Jeshua fathered Joiakim,
Joiakim fathered Eliashib,
Eliashib fathered Joiada,

Son in law

Now before this, Eliashib the priest had been put in charge of the storerooms of the house of our God. He was a relative of Tobiah

During those days, the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, and Tobiah’s letters came to them.

Sanballat

When Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard about this, they mocked and despised us, and said, “What is this you’re doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”

I chased

I rebuked them, cursed them, beat some of their men, and pulled out their hair. I forced them to take an oath before God and said: “You must not give your daughters in marriage to their sons or take their daughters as wives for your sons or yourselves!

Every morning I will destroy
all the wicked of the land,
eliminating all evildoers from the Lord’s city.

A king sitting on a throne to judge
sifts out all evil with his eyes.

For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? Do what is good, and you will have its approval.

General references

Drive out a mocker, and conflict goes too;
then quarreling and dishonor will cease.