Nehemiah 3:13

The valley gate See note on Nehemiah 2:13; Nehemiah 2:15. This was the main entrance on the western side.

Zanoah This town, mentioned in Nehemiah 11:30; Joshua 15:34, is probably the modern Zanuah, some 13 miles W. of Jerusalem.

the doors thereof, &c. See note on Nehemiah 3:3.

and a thousand cubits on the wall unto the dung gate R.V. of the wall. Some who have thought that this would be too great a distance of wall to be restored by a single section of the community regard the clause as a topographical parenthesis, = -There were a thousand cubits between the two gates." But if we may suppose little restoration was here needed, no further details would be recorded of this section of the wall. This very reason, however, would enable us to accept the repairing of -the thousand cubits" as the work of -Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah." Comparatively little work was here needed, and a small party could undertake a long stretch.

The -dung gate" was probably at the S.W. angle of the wall. The wall having passed due S. from the -valley gate" to the -dung gate," turned thence in an easterly direction.