Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Nehemiah 3:32
Unto the sheep gate. — It appears that the “goldsmiths and the merchants” undertook the small space necessary to complete the circuit.
Unto the sheep gate. — It appears that the “goldsmiths and the merchants” undertook the small space necessary to complete the circuit.
Verse Nehemiah 3:32. _THE GOLDSMITHS AND THE MERCHANTS._] The word הצרפים _hatstsorephim_ may signify _smiths_, or persons who worked in _metals_ of any kind; but it is generally understood to mean t...
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....
AND. This is reckoned in the _Massorah_ as the middle verse of the 685 verses of the whole book "Ezra-Nehemiah", showing that the two books were one. SHEEP GATE. See App-59. The work thus ended where...
_the going up_, &c. see Nehemiah 3:31. _unto the sheep gate_ R.V. AND THE SHEEP GATE. This was the starting place of the description (Nehemiah 3:1). _the goldsmiths_ see Nehemiah 3:8. the merchan
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...
3:32 of (g-5) Or 'upper chamber in.'...
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 SHEEP GATE] The circuit of the walls ended with the original starting-point (Nehemiah 3:11)....
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...
וּ בֵ֨ין עֲלִיַּ֤ת הַ פִּנָּה֙ לְ שַׁ֣עַר
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...
REFLECTIONS I HOPE the Reader will not peruse this chapter, without gleaning much improvement from it, though the subject relates to nothing more interesting than the repairing of the walls of Jerusal...
(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...
And between the going up of the corner unto the sheep gate repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants. Ver. 32. _Unto the sheep gate_] Here they began and here they end, having repaired round, and the...
_The going up unto the sheep-gate_ There they began, and there they ended, which shows that they left not off till they had compassed the whole city with a wall. No man can think, (as Pellicanus obser...
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...
THE WALLS OF ZION...
And between the going up of the corner unto the Sheep Gate repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants, both of whom were interested in the market which was held in this neighborhood. As the Jewish Chur...
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...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Nehemiah 3:32 room H5944 corner H6438 Sheep H6629 Gate H8179 goldsmiths H6884 (H8802) merchants H7402 (H8802) repa
‘And between the ascent of the corner and the sheep gate repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants.' In Nehemiah 3:1 the description of the building works had commenced with the building of the Sheep...
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 3:32 SHEEP GATE. See note on vv. 1–2. ⇐...
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...
John 5:2; Nehemiah 12:39; Nehemiah 3:1; Nehemiah 3:31; Nehemiah 3:8...