Nehemiah 3:1
Then Eliasub the high priest, and his brethren the priests, rose up, and built the sheep-gate; they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even to the tower of the hundred they sanctified it, to the tower of Anameel.
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Nehemiah 3:20After him repaired Baruch the son of Zabu, a second portion, from the corner as far as the door of the house of Eliasub the high priest.
Nehemiah 3:32And between that and the sheep-gate the smiths and chapmen repaired.
Nehemiah 7:1And it came to pass, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed,
Nehemiah 12:30And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and they purified the people, and the porters, and the wall.
Nehemiah 13:4And before this time Eliasib the priest dwelt in the treasury of the house of our God, connected with Tobias;
Psalms 30:1For the end, a Psalm of David, an utterance of + 30:1 Gr. ecstasy. See title.extreme fear.
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 →