Nehemiah 3:1
Then Eliashib, the chief priest, got up with his brothers the priests, and took in hand the building of the sheep doorway; they made it holy and put its doors in position; as far as the tower of Hammeah they made it holy, even to the tower of Hananel.
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2And by his side the men of Jericho were building. And after them, Zaccur, the son of Imri.
Cross References
Nehemiah 3:20After him Baruch, the son of Zabbai, was hard at work on another part, from the turning of the wall to the door of the house of Eliashib, the chief priest.
Nehemiah 3:32And between the way up to the angle and the sheep door, the gold-workers and the traders made good the wall.
Nehemiah 7:1Now when the building of the wall was complete and I had put up the doors, and the door-keepers and the music-makers and the Levites had been given their places,
Nehemiah 12:30And the priests and the Levites made themselves clean; and they made the people clean, and the doorways and the wall.
Nehemiah 13:4Now before this, Eliashib the priest, who had been placed over the rooms of the house of our God, being a friend of Tobiah,
Psalms 30:1A Psalm. A Song at the blessing of the House. Of David.
Matthew Henry on Nehemiah 3:1
Saying and doing are often two things: many are ready to say, "Let us rise up and build," who sit still and do nothing, like that fair-spoken son who said,"I go, Sir, but went not." The undertakers here were none of those. As soon as they had resolved to build the wall about Jerusalem they lost no time, but set about it presently, as we find in this chapter. Let it never be said that we left that good work to be done to-morrow which we might as well have done to-day. This chapter gives an account of two things:—I.… Read the whole commentary →