Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
The relations of Eliashib, the high priest Nehemiah 3:1, with Tobiah and Sanballat will account for the absence of any reference to him either in Neh. 8-10, or in Neh. 12:27-47.
The chamber - The entire outbuilding, or "lean-to," which surrounded the temple on three sides I Kings 6:5-10.
Allied - i. e, "connected by marriage." Tobiah was married to a Jewess Nehemiah 6:18, who may have been a relation of Eliashib; and his son Johanan was married to another Nehemiah 6:18, of whom the same may be said.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Nehemiah 13:4:
Ezra 10:6
Nehemiah 6:12
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