Earnestly and heartily he had helped in building the walls; he had actually led the band of workers, and had been the very first to begin to build, chap.iii.

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But Eliashib had a grandson named Manasseh, and this young man had made what he thought a very good match.

Priest though he was, he had married the daughter of Sanballat, the governor of Samaria, a heathen girl, who was rich and possibly good-looking, and whose father was the most powerful man in the country, but who did not fear or own the God of Israel.

And the grandfather, so far from forbidding the marriage, seems to have connived at it and sanctioned it.
Nay, he seems not only to have allowed himself to be allied with Sanballat the governor, but also with Tobiah the secretary, chap.

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