Elasah
1. Priest of Pashhur’s clan who obeyed Ezra’s exhortation to divorce his pagan wife after the exile (Ezr 10:22).
2. Shaphan’s son and King Zedekiah’s envoy to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. On his trip to Babylon, Elasah also carried a letter of encouragement from the prophet Jeremiah to the Jewish exiles there (Jer 29:3).
People and places
Elasah: Priest who married a foreign woman during the Exile Elasah: Messenger who carried Jeremiah's letter to the exiles