Nehemiah 3:2

next unto him i.e. next to Eliashib and the priests. The description passing northward from the Temple, now turns west.

the men of Jericho Some suppose that this section of the wall lay sufficiently on the N.E. quarter to offer to -men of Jericho" a convenient piece of work.

On the other hand, the term may only denote a clan of fellow-townsmen, who had held together during the exile and were known by this name after they had settled in Jerusalem. See Ezra 2:34.

to them R.V. marg. Heb. to him. Perhaps the Hebrew indicates here an abbreviation of or omission from the list. -Next to," here and in Nehemiah 3:19 should have been rendered -next unto" as elsewhere.