Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary
Nehemiah 3:30
And Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph, another piece It seems his five elder brethren laid not their hands to the work. But in doing that which is good, we need not stay to see our betters go before us.
And Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph, another piece It seems his five elder brethren laid not their hands to the work. But in doing that which is good, we need not stay to see our betters go before us.
The constant mention of “priests,” “Levites,” and Nethinims,” sufficiently indicates that the writer is here concerned with the sacerdotal quarter, that immediately about the temple. Nehemiah 3:18 BA...
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....
_Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph, … piece_ R.V. PORTION. This particular mention of Hanun as -the sixth son" of Zalaph is noteworthy, since the mention of other names in this chapter is unaccompanied wi...
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...
3:30 them (c-20) Lit. 'him.' chamber. (d-30) Lit. 'lodging.'...
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...
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...
Meshullam repaired a second part of the wall (Nehemiah 3:4). More of the skilled workmen who made things out of gold helped to build the wall. Some merchants also helped. Nehemiah started his report...
_אַחֲרָ֨יו_† הֶחֱזִ֜יק חֲנַנְיָ֣ה בֶן ־שֶׁלֶמְיָ֗ה וְ חָנ֧וּן
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...
After him repaired Hananiah the son of Shelemiah, and Hanun the (g) sixth son of Zalaph, another piece. After him repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah over against his chamber. (g) Meaning the six...
After him, Semaia; as the Septuagint, &c., intimate; and not (Calmet) "after me," as if Nehemias spoke of himself, as some Hebrew copies require. (Junius) (Grotius) --- Treasury, or "room." (Pagnin) -...
(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...
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...
After him repaired Hananiah the son of Shelemiah, and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph, another piece. After him repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah over against his chamber. Ver. 30. _After him rep...
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...
After him repaired Hananiah, the son of Shelemiah, and Hanun, the sixth son of Zalaph, another piece, Cf v. 13. AFTER HIM REPAIRED MESHULLAM, THE SON OF BERECHIAH, OVER AGAINST HIS CHAMBER, Cf v. 4....
THE WALLS OF ZION...
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...
Or, _chambers_; the singular number for the plural....
Nehemiah 3:30 After H310 Hananiah H2608 son H1121 Shelemiah H8018 Hanun H2586 sixth H8345 son H1121 Zalaph H6764 re
‘After him repaired Hananiah the son of Shelemiah, and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph, a second portion.' The next section was the responsibility of Hananiah and Hanun. This may well have been the Hana...
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...
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...
Nehemiah 3:21; Nehemiah 3:4...
The sixth son of Zalaph — It seems, his five elder brethren, laid not their hands to the work. But in doing that which is good, we need not stay to see our betters go before us....