Nehemiah 3:1, The names and order of them that built the wall.
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Nehemiah 3
Nehemiah 3 — Overview
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Nehemiah 3 — OverviewNehemiah 3 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleSaying and doing are often two things: many are ready to say, "Let us
rise up and build," who sit still and do nothing, like that fair-spoken
son who said,"I go, Sir, but went not." The undertakers here were none…Nehemiah 3 — OverviewNehemiah 3 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleThis chapter contains the names of the builders of the wall of Jerusalem, the order in which they worked, where they began, and where they ended, which was the sheep gate, Ne 3:1.Ver. 1. Then Eliashib the high priest…Nehemiah 3:1-32Nehemiah 3:1-32 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleThe best way to know how to divide this chapter is to observe how the
work was divided among the undertakers, that every one might know what
he had to do, and mind it accordingly with a holy emulation, and desire…Nehemiah 3:1Nehemiah 3:1 · Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeEliashib: Nehemiah 12:10, Nehemiah 13:28
the sheep gate: This gate is supposed to have immediately communicated with the temple, and to have been called the sheep gate, because the sheep intended for sacrifice passed…Nehemiah 3:2Nehemiah 3:2 · Treasury of Scripture Knowledgenext unto him: Heb. at his hand
the men: Nehemiah 7:36; Ezra 2:34
Zaccur: Nehemiah 10:12Nehemiah 3:2Nehemiah 3:2 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleAnd next unto him builded the men of Jericho,.... The posterity of those that formerly inhabited that city; these began where Eliashib and the priests ended, and went on from thence:and next to them; or rather "to him",…