Hashub

Hashub is a name borne by several post-exilic figures in the rebuilding of Jerusalem and the resettlement that followed. UPDV consistently renders the name Hasshub at every occurrence, so the four men distinguished by name appear under that single spelling: two laborers on the city wall, a covenant-sealing family head, and a Levite ancestor remembered in the priestly registers.

Builders of the Wall

Two men named Hasshub take part in Nehemiah's wall project. The first works alongside Malchijah on a section that includes one of the city's defensive towers: "Malchijah the son of Harim, and Hasshub the son of Pahath-moab, repaired another portion, and the tower of the furnaces" (Neh 3:11). The patronym ties this Hasshub to the family of Pahath-moab, one of the larger returning clans.

A second Hasshub appears later in the same chapter, working on the stretch directly in front of his own residence: "After them repaired Benjamin and Hasshub across from their house. After them repaired Azariah the son of Maaseiah the son of Ananiah beside his own house" (Neh 3:23). The pattern is characteristic of Nehemiah 3 — neighbors building the wall at their own doorsteps.

A Sealer of the Covenant

When the returned community formally binds itself to the law, Hasshub appears among the heads of the people who set their seal to the document: "Hoshea, Hananiah, Hasshub," (Neh 10:23). The list is terse, but the act is weighty — these names attest a renewed national obligation to walk in Yahweh's commands.

A Levite Ancestor

The genealogical registers of the resettled city remember a Hasshub among the Levites of the sons of Merari. The Chronicler records: "And of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari;" (1Ch 9:14). Nehemiah's parallel list of those who took up residence in Jerusalem preserves the same line with one variation in the deeper ancestry: "And of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Bunni;" (Neh 11:15). In both notices Hasshub stands as the father of Shemaiah, anchoring a Levitical family to the post-exilic temple service.