-
Verse Nehemiah 3:7. _THE THRONE OF THE GOVERNOR_] His house, and the
place where he dispensed justice and judgment. Previously to the days
of Nehemiah, Jerusalem was governed by a deputy from the Per...
-
UNTO THE THRONE ... - The meaning is thought to be “the men of
Gibeon and Mizpah, who, though they worked for Nehemiah, were not
under his government, but belonged to the jurisdiction of the governor...
-
CHAPTER 3
_ 1. The builders of the sheep gate (Nehemiah 3:1)_
2. The builders of the fish gate (Nehemiah 3:3)
3. The repairers of the old gate (Nehemiah 3:6)
4. The repairers of the valley gate ...
-
THE BUILDING OF THE WALLS, This is an independent section which breaks
the connexion between Nehemiah 2:20 and Nehemiah 4:1 ff.; it is an
excerpt which commences with And Eliashib. (not then Eliashib....
-
GIBEON. MIZPAH. Now _'el JibSuf,_ about. and. 1/2 miles
north-north-west of Jerusalem respectively.
GOVERNOR. The Persian governor.
THE RIVER. The Euphrates....
-
_Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon,
and of Mizpah_ In this arrangement of names it is natural to see the
names of two leaders followed by the description of their re...
-
TEXT AND VERSE-BY-VERSE COMMENT
TEXT, Nehemiah 3:1-32
1
Then Eliashib the high priest arose with his brothers the priests and
built the Sheep Gate; they consecrated it and hung its doors. They
cons...
-
_BUT THE FISH GATE DID THE SONS OF HASSENAAH BUILD, WHO ALSO LAID THE
BEAMS THEREOF, AND SET UP THE DOORS THEREOF, THE LOCKS THEREOF, AND
THE BARS THEREOF._
No JFB commentary on these verses....
-
3:7 seat (a-22) Or 'throne;' as Genesis 41:40 . governor (b-25) Or
'pacha;' see Ezra 8:36 ....
-
PARTICULARS RESPECTING THE REBUILDING
1. Then, etc.] For the purposes of repair the wall was parcelled out
between a number of working parties consisting of various important
families, the inhabitants...
-
UNTO THE, etc.] RV '_which appertained_ to the,' etc. Part of Mizpah
was under the direct control of the Persian officer who governed the
region W. of the Euphrates, whilst part was under Jewish rule...
-
THE *JEWS BUILD JERUSALEM’S CITY WALL AGAIN
NEHEMIAH
_ROBERT BRYCE AND ROBERT BETTS_
CHAPTER 3
In this chapter, there are many names. The Bible does not mention
most of these people elsewhere. Ma...
-
Most of the people who built the wall were not skilled builders. They
were normal people who had other jobs. Men who usually made *perfume
or things of gold helped to build the walls.
Some people wor...
-
UNTO THE THRONE. — _Unto the seat_ of the pechah of the whole
district this side the Euphrates: his residence when he came to
Jerusalem....
-
וְ עַל ־יָדָ֨ם הֶחֱזִ֜יק מְלַטְיָ֣ה
הַ גִּבְע
-
BUILDING THE WALLS
Nehemiah 3:1
THE third chapter of the Book of Nehemiah supplies a striking
illustration of the constructive character of the history of the Jews
in the Persian period. Nor is that...
-
This chapter is supremely interesting in its revelation of method.
That it is preserved for us at all shows how system characterized
Nehemiah's procedure. The description proceeds round the entire wal...
-
And next unto them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the
Meronothite, the men of Gibeon, and of Mizpah, unto the (c) throne of
the governor on this side the river.
(c) To the place where the...
-
_For the. Hebrew, "for (Calmet; or) unto the throne of the governor on
this side of the river." (Protestants) (Haydock) --- These people
worked near the palace, which had been built for the Persian go...
-
(5) And next unto them the Tekoites repaired; but their nobles put not
their necks to the work of their Lord. (6) Moreover the old gate
repaired Jehoiada the son of Paseah, and Meshullam the son of
Be...
-
Starting Point"A false friend is like your shadow. As long as there is
sunshine, he sticks close by. But the minute you step into the shade,
he disappears." Green
I. INTRODUCTION
A. Last week = talk...
-
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 2, 3, 4, 5, AND 6.
The time in which Nehemiah laboured for the good of his people was not
one of those brilliant phases which, if faith be there, awaken even...
-
_Unto the throne of the governor on this side the river_ Unto the
place where the governor of the country on this side Euphrates, under
the Persian kings, sometimes had a palace or throne....
-
1 The names and order of them that builded the wall.
1 THEN Eliashib the hie priest, rose vp with his brethren the Priests,
and they built the sheepe-gate, they sanctified it, & set vp the
doores of...
-
And next unto them repaired Meletiah the Gibeonite, that is, of Gibea,
AND JADON THE MERONOTHITE, probably hailing from a suburb of Mizpah,
THE MEN OF GIBEON AND OF MIZPAH, UNTO THE THRONE OF THE GOVE...
-
THE WALLS OF THE LOWER CITY...
-
THE BUILDING WELL BEGUN
(vv. 1-32)
Eliashib the high priest is mentioned first in the building, not
because he was the most devoted builder, but because of his position,
for chapter 13:4 tells us th...
-
i.e. Unto the place where the governor of the country on this side the
river Euphrates, for and under the Persian kings, sometimes had a
palace or throne, to which all persons living in the adjacent p...
-
Nehemiah 3:7 them H3027 Melatiah H4424 Gibeonite H1393 Jadon H3036
Meronothite H4824 men H582 Gibeon H1391 Mizpah H4709
-
‘And next to them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the
Meronothite, the men of Gibeon, and of Mizpah, which pertains to the
seat of the governor of Beyond the River.'
The part of the wall fo...
-
THE REBUILDING OF THE WALLS OF JERUSALEM (NEHEMIAH 3:1).
It is difficult to overemphasise the huge impact of what was about to
be accomplished. A city which was largely uninhabited, lay partially
in r...
-
CONTENTS: Wall of Jerusalem built.
CHARACTERS: God, Artaxerxes, Nehemiah, Sanballat, Tobiah.
CONCLUSION: What is to be done for the public good, everyone should
have a part in and further to the utm...
-
Nehemiah 3:1. _Eliashib the highpriest._ He was the son of Joachim,
the son of Joshua, and the third highpriest after the first and
greatest return of the people from Babylon. _They sanctified it,_ by...
-
_Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren._
THE BUILDERS AT WORK
Unity in diversity seems to be the principle on which God works both
in the natural and spiritual world--a truth which...
-
NEHEMIAH—NOTE ON NEHEMIAH 3:7 MIZPAH was an important administrative
center after Jerusalem’s fall (Jeremiah 41:1)....
-
EXPLANATORY NOTES.]
NEHEMIAH 3:1. ELIASHIB] The grandson of Jeshua, and the first high
priest after the return from Babylon. No reason to doubt that the same
Eliashib is referred to in Ezra 10:6. THE...
-
EXPOSITION
COMMENCEMENT OF THE WORK, AND ARRANGEMENT OF THE WORKING PARTIES, WITH
THE NAMES OF THOSE WHO SUPERINTENDED THE BUILDING ...
-
And in chapter 3, you have the names of all of the families and the
section of the walls where they would be working. And because the
names really are insignificant to us we're not going to wade throu...
-
2 Chronicles 16:6; 2 Samuel 21:2; Joshua 9:3; Nehemiah 2:8; Nehemi
-
The throne — Unto the place where the governor of the country on
this side Euphrates, under the Persian kings, sometimes had a palace
or throne....