Nechemyah 13:28

28 And one of the Bnei Yoyada ben Elyashiv, the Kohen HaGadol, was son-inlaw to Sanvalat the Choroni; therefore I drove him away from me.

Nechemyah 13:28 Meaning and Commentary

Nehemiah 13:28

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.

Nechemyah 13:28 In-Context

26 Did not Sh’lomo Melech Yisroel sin by these things? Yet among many Goyim was there no melech like him, who was beloved of Elohav, and Elohim made him melech over kol Yisroel. Nevertheless even him did foreign women cause to sin.

27 Shall we then pay heed unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against Eloheinu in marrying strange wives?

28 And one of the Bnei Yoyada ben Elyashiv, the Kohen HaGadol, was son-inlaw to Sanvalat the Choroni; therefore I drove him away from me.

29 Remember them, O Elohai, because they have defiled the kehunah, and the brit (covenant) of the kehunah, and of the Levi’im.

30 Thus I cleansed them from all that is foreign, and had them attend again to the duties of the Kohanim and the Levi’im, every one in his appointed work;