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3. High priest when Nehemiah rebuilt the walls (-20-21). Energetic in building the sheepgate, sanctifying and setting up its doors; but relationship to Tobiah the Ammonite outweighed regard for the sanctity of the temple. Nehemiah was angry with him for preparing a room therein for his pagan connection (-7), in opposition to God's prohibition (-4). His grandson too had married the pagan Horonite Sanballat's daughter (). Ungodly alliances are a snare to religious professors (-18; ). "Therefore (says Nehemiah) I chased him from me. Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood." His genealogy is given (; ), see .
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