Nehemiah 3:1
And Eliashib, the great priest, rose up, with his brothers, the priests, and they built the gate of the flock. They sanctified it, and they set up its double doors, and as far as the tower of one hundred cubits, they sanctified it, even to the tower of Hananel.
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In Context
2And beside him, the men of Jericho built. And beside them, Zaccur, the son of Imri, built.
Cross References
Nehemiah 3:20After him, at the mount, Baruch, the son of Zabbai, built another measure, from the corner even to the door of the house of Eliashib, the great priest.
Nehemiah 7:1Then, after the wall was built, and I set up the double doors, and I enrolled the gatekeepers, and the singing men, and the Levites,
Nehemiah 12:30And the priests and the Levites were cleansed, and they cleansed the people, and the gates, and the wall.
Nehemiah 13:4And Eliashib, the priest, was over this task; he had been given charge of the treasury of the house of our God, and he was a close relative of Tobiah.
Psalms 30:1Unto the end. A Psalm of David according to an ecstasy.
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 →