John Gill Commentary Nehemiah 13:28

"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." — Nehemiah 13:28 (ASV)

And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the
high priest
A grandson of the high priest; for the high priest here is Eliashib, according to our version, and not Joiada his son, according to Dr. Prideaux ^F9 ; the person designed, Josephus ^F11 makes to be Manasseh, the brother of Jaddua the high priest: was

son in law to Sanballat the Horonite ;
married a daughter of his, who was the avowed enemy of the Jewish nation; and for whom, according to the same writer, Sanballat obtained leave of Alexander to build a temple on Mount Gerizim; but this is to protract the age of Nehemiah and Sanballat to too great a length; besides, Eliashib seems to have been now high priest, and not even his son Joiada, and much less Jaddua, a grandson of Joiada:

therefore I chased him from me ;
drove him from his court, suffered him not to minister at the altar; banished him from the city, as Jarchi, and even from the land of Judea.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F9: Connect. par. 1. p. 412.
• F11: Antiqu. l. 11. c. 8. sect. 2, 4.