Nehemiah 3:1
Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and they built the sheep gate. They sanctified it, and set up its doors. They sanctified it even to the tower of Hammeah, to the tower of Hananel.
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In Context
2Next to him the men of Jericho built. Next to them Zaccur the son of Imri built.
Cross References
Nehemiah 3:20After him, Baruch the son of Zabbai earnestly repaired another portion, from the turning of the wall to the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest.
Nehemiah 3:32Between the ascent of the corner and the sheep gate, the goldsmiths and the merchants made repairs.
Nehemiah 7:1Now when the wall was built and I had set up the doors, and the gatekeepers and the singers and the Levites were appointed,
Nehemiah 12:30The priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people, the gates, and the wall.
Nehemiah 13:4Now before this, Eliashib the priest, who was appointed over the rooms of the house of our God, being allied to Tobiah,
Psalms 30:1I will extol you, LORD, for you have raised me up, and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.
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 →