Nehemiah 3:19

_AND NEXT TO HIM REPAIRED EZER THE SON OF JESHUA, THE RULER OF MIZPAH, ANOTHER PIECE OVER AGAINST THE GOING UP TO THE ARMOURY AT THE TURNING OF THE WALL._ At the turning of the wall - i:e., the wall across the Tyropoeon, being a continuation of the first wall connecting mount Zion with the temple wall (Barclay)....

Verse 19. _THE GOING UP TO THE ARMOURY_] This was either a _tower_ that defended the angle where the two walls met; or the _city_ _arsenal_, where shields, spears, c., were kept to arm the people in time of danger....

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 BAVAI - Or, “Binnui” Nehemiah 3:24; Nehemiah 10:9. THE ARMOURY AT THE TURNING OF THE WALL - literally, “the armoury of the corner.” The northwestern corner of the special wall of the “city of David” seems to be intended. See Nehemiah 3:1 note....

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....

_Ezer … the ruler of Mizpah, another piece_ R.V. PORTION. -The ruler of Mizpah" as distinguished from -the ruler of the district of Mizpah" (Nehemiah 3:15). _over against the going up to the armoury_at _the turning_of the wall]. A much-disputed piece of topography. There is nothing to show in which direction the wall turned. The -armoury" will naturally be connected with the mention of -the house of the mighty men" of Nehemiah 3:16; to the N. of which the present description seems to place it. The -armoury" is mentioned in 1 Kings 10:17; 1Ki 10:21; 1 Kings 14:26;...

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

3:19 angle. (h-28) Or 'turning.' so vers. 20,24,25....

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....