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Verse 15. _THE POOL OF SILOAH_] This is probably the same as that
mentioned by the evangelists.
_THE STAIRS THAT GO DOWN FROM THE CITY OF DAVID._] Jerusalem being
built on very _uneven ground_, and s...
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The “pool of Siloah” lies at the southwestern foot of the temple
hill, near the lower end of the Tyropoeon. It appears to have been at
all times beyond the line of the city wall, but was perhaps joine...
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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 ...
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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....
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GATE. See App-59.
SILOAH. sent. See John 5:1; John 5:2. Compare John 9:7 At south-east
corner of Ophel.
KING'S GARDEN. See 2 Kings 25:4.
stair
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_But the gate of the fountain_ R.V. AND THE FOUNTAIN GATE. See
Nehemiah 2:14. According to the old view, Nehemiah's description here
passes over a considerable space (nearly half a mile in straight li...
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TEXT AND VERSE-BY-VERSE COMMENT
TEXT, Nehemiah 3:1-32
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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...
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_BUT THE GATE OF THE FOUNTAIN REPAIRED SHALLUN THE SON OF COLHOZEH,
THE RULER OF PART OF MIZPAH; HE BUILT IT, AND COVERED IT, AND SET UP
THE DOORS THEREOF, THE LOCKS THEREOF, AND THE BARS THEREOF, AND...
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3:15 Shelah (f-40) Siloam, John 9:7 . city (g-54) The part of
Jerusalem thus called....
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THE POOL OF SILOAH] i.e. the pool of Siloam. THE STAIRS] These were
steps leading to the pool, perhaps from the Temple hill: cp. Nehemiah
12:37....
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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...
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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...
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Hanun and the residents of Zanoah worked hard. They repaired a gate
and a very long section of the wall.
Malkijah, Shallum and Nehemiah helped to build the walls. They also
were rulers of the distric...
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HE COVERED IT. — Similar to _laid the beams_ in Nehemiah 3:3;
Nehemiah 3:6.
THE POOL OF SILOAH. — Called before “the king’s pool,” which
received its water as “sent” through a long subterranean condu...
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וְ אֵת֩ שַׁ֨עַר הָ עַ֜יִן הֶ֠חֱזִיק
שַׁלּ֣וּן
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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...
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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...
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_King's garden. This fountain is mentioned, Isaias viii. 6., and John
ix. 7. --- Steps. The place was steep, chap. xii. 36._...
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(13) The valley gate repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of Zanoah;
they built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and
the bars thereof, and a thousand cubits on the wall unto the dun...
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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...
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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...
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But the gate of the fountain repaired Shallun the son of Colhozeh, the
ruler of part of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up the
doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and...
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_Beth-haccerem_ A town or territory, the government whereof was
divided between two persons. _The wall of the pool of Siloah _ That
part of the wall which was directly against that pool. _After him
re...
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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...
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But the Gate of the Fountain, near the Pool of Siloam, repaired
Shallum, the son of Colhozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah, of the
circuit of Mizpah; for this was under the jurisdiction of a different...
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THE WALLS OF THE LOWER CITY...
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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...
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THE WALL OF THE POOL OF SILOAH; that part of the wall which was
directly against that pool....
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‘And Shallun the son of Col-hozeh, the ruler of the district of
Mizpah, repaired the fountain gate. He built it, and covered it, and
set up its doors, its bolts and its bar, and the wall of the pool o...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_By the king’s garden._
THE KING’S GARDEN
There are six of these “king’s gardens” to which I shall conduct
you, but we shall not have time to tarry in more than one of them. I
The garden of paradise...
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_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...
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NEHEMIAH—NOTE ON NEHEMIAH 3:13 VALLEY GATE... DUNG GATE. See note on
2:13–15. A THOUSAND CUBITS. About 500 yards (457 m). FOUNTAIN GATE.
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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...
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EXPOSITION
COMMENCEMENT OF THE WORK, AND ARRANGEMENT OF THE WORKING PARTIES, WITH
THE NAMES OF THOSE WHO SUPERINTENDED THE BUILDING ...
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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...
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2 Chronicles 32:30; 2 Samuel 5:6; 2 Samuel 5:7; Isaiah 8:6; Jeremiah