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).