Nehemiah 3:12

_AND NEXT UNTO HIM REPAIRED SHALLUM THE SON OF HALOHESH, THE RULER OF THE HALF PART OF JERUSALEM, HE AND HIS DAUGHTERS._ SHALLUM ... THE RULER OF THE HALF PART OF JERUSALEM, х_ SAR_ (H8269) _ CHªTSIY_ (H2677) _ PELEK_ (H6418) _ YªRUWSHAALAAIM_ (H3389)] - chief of the half district or circuit round Jerusalem. HE AND HIS DAUGHTERS - who were either heiresses or rich widows, who undertook to defray the expenses of a part of the wall next them....

Verse Nehemiah 3:12. _THE SON OF HALOHESH_] Or, the son of the _Enchanter_: conjectured to be thus named from having the art to _charm_ serpents. _THE RULER OF THE HALF PART_] See on Nehemiah 3:9....

EXPOSITION COMMENCEMENT OF THE WORK, AND ARRANGEMENT OF THE WORKING PARTIES, WITH THE NAMES OF THOSE WHO SUPERINTENDED THE BUILDING (Nehemiah 3:1. ). The especial object of this chapter seems to be the rendering of honour where honour was due—the putting on record of the names of the men who boldly came to the front on this occasion, sacrificed their ease to their duty, and exposed themselves to a threatened hostile attack (Nehemiah 4:8). Though Nehemiah's eloquence had ca

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 (Nehemiah 3:13) 5. The repairers of the dung gate (Nehemiah 3:14) 6. The repairers of the gate of the fountain (Nehemiah 3:15) 7. The repairers of the water 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. as RV), thus betraying a connexion with something which must originally have preceded it. As the text now stands, the contents of the section do not follow on logically after Nehemiah 2:20. Further, the description here given, in itself incomplete, of the distribution of the work represents the different parts of the wall as having been repaired simultaneously, but this is contradicted by Nehemiah 6:1....

HIS DAUGHTERS. Showing how women may contribute to the work of reformation....

_the ruler of the half part of Jerusalem_ R.V. THE RULER OF HALF THE DISTRICT OF JERUSALEM. See note on Nehemiah 3:9. This was the -Zion" half of the city. _he and his daughters_ The mention of -his daughters" is strange. Some consider that the word -daughters" is here used in its technical sense of -villages" and -country towns" (cf. Nehemiah 11:25; Nehemiah 11:27), the inhabitants of which placed workers under the command of the ruler of the whole district. Others again accepting this rendering of -daughters" = -villages," refer the pronoun -he" to -the district," i.e. -the district and the villages adjacent to that quarter of Jerusalem." But the most simple and literal explanation is probabl

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 consecrated the wall to the Tower of the Hundred and the Tower of Hananel. 2 And next to him the men of Jericho built, and next to them Zaccur the son of Imri built. 3 Now the sons of Hassenaah built the Fish Gate; they laid its beams and hung its doors with its bolts and bars. 4 And next to them Meremoth the son of Uriah, the son of Hakkoz made repairs. And next to him Meshullam the son of Berechiah the son of Meshezabel made repairs. And next to him Zadok the son of Baana also made repairs. 5 Moreover, next to him the Tekoites made repairs, but their nobles did not support the work of their masters, 6 And Joiada the

3:12 them (c-4) Lit. 'him.'...

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 of certain towns, and different professional and trading bodies. The description of the several sections of the wall begins near the Temple at the SHEEP-GATE, through which the flocks used to be driven for sacrifice. The writer's purpose in enumerating all who undertook to rebuild these sections is to put on record the names of those who devoted their labour and their substance to restoring the city which protected Jehovah's sanctuary, and to challenge the emulation of later generations....