The son of one of the apothecaries] better, 'one of the perfumers.' They fortified] RM 'they left,' meaning that the builders at this point left the fortifications untouched because they were in good repair, or that they departed in their reconstruction from the existing ground-plan.
Verse Nehemiah 3:8. _GOLDSMITHS._] From the remotest period of the history of the Jews they had artists in all elegant and ornamental trades; and it is also evident that goldsmiths, apothecaries, and...
CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The builders of the sheep gate (Nehemiah 3:1)_ 2. The builders of the fish gate (Nehemiah 3:3) 3. The repairers of the old gate (Nehemiah 3:6) 4. The repairers of the valley gate ...
THE BUILDING OF THE WALLS, This is an independent section which breaks the connexion between Nehemiah 2:20 and Nehemiah 4:1 ff.; it is an excerpt which commences with And Eliashib. (not then Eliashib....
NEXT. at his hand. Some codices, with five early printed editions, Septuagint, and Vulgate, read "and at". GOLDSMITHS. refiners. APOTHECARIES. perfumers. FORTIFIED. Hebrew. _Homonym, 'dzab._ See no...
_Uzziel_… of _the goldsmiths_ R.V. UZZIEL …, GOLDSMITHS. The R.V. gives the literal rendering. The meaning of course is that a guild or the guild of goldsmiths, who were represented by Uzziel, underto...
TEXT AND VERSE-BY-VERSE COMMENT TEXT, Nehemiah 3:1-32 1 Then Eliashib the high priest arose with his brothers the priests and built the Sheep Gate; they consecrated it and hung its doors. They cons...
_NEXT UNTO HIM REPAIRED UZZIEL THE SON OF HARHAIAH, OF THE GOLDSMITHS. NEXT UNTO HIM ALSO REPAIRED HANANIAH THE SON OF ONE OF THE APOTHECARIES, AND THEY FORTIFIED JERUSALEM UNTO THE BROAD WALL._ Fort...
3:8 them (c-3) Lit. 'him.' perfumers, (d-21) Lit. 'son of perfumers.' as (e-31) Others, '[the Chaldeans] had left [the walls of] Jerusalem as far as.'...
THE *JEWS BUILD JERUSALEM’S CITY WALL AGAIN NEHEMIAH _ROBERT BRYCE AND ROBERT BETTS_ CHAPTER 3 In this chapter, there are many names. The Bible does not mention most of these people elsewhere. Ma...
Most of the people who built the wall were not skilled builders. They were normal people who had other jobs. Men who usually made *perfume or things of gold helped to build the walls. Some people wor...
AND THEY FORTIFIED JERUSALEM UNTO THE BROAD WALL. — The word translated “fortified” means literally _left,_ and this yields a good sense: _they left Jerusalem_ untouched as far as a certain portion of...
עַל ־יָדֹ֣ו הֶחֱזִ֗יק עֻזִּיאֵ֤ל בֶּֽן ־חַרְהֲיָה֙...
BUILDING THE WALLS Nehemiah 3:1 THE third chapter of the Book of Nehemiah supplies a striking illustration of the constructive character of the history of the Jews in the Persian period. Nor is that...
This chapter is supremely interesting in its revelation of method. That it is preserved for us at all shows how system characterized Nehemiah's procedure. The description proceeds round the entire wal...
Goldsmith and perfumer, are plural in Hebrew. --- Left, 400 cubits, (Tirinus) as the wall was not demolished, (Menochius) having been repaired by Ozias just before the coming of the Chaldeans, 2 Paral...
(5) And next unto them the Tekoites repaired; but their nobles put not their necks to the work of their Lord. (6) Moreover the old gate repaired Jehoiada the son of Paseah, and Meshullam the son of Be...
Starting Point"A false friend is like your shadow. As long as there is sunshine, he sticks close by. But the minute you step into the shade, he disappears." Green I. INTRODUCTION A. Last week = talk...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 2, 3, 4, 5, AND 6. The time in which Nehemiah laboured for the good of his people was not one of those brilliant phases which, if faith be there, awaken even...
Next unto him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, of the goldsmiths. Next unto him also repaired Hananiah the son of [one of] the apothecaries, and they fortified Jerusalem unto the broad wall. Ver....
_Next unto him repaired Uzziel; also Hananiah_ These were two eminent persons, one among the workers or casters of gold, the other among the perfumers. _They fortified Jerusalem, &c., unto the broad w...
1 The names and order of them that builded the wall. 1 THEN Eliashib the hie priest, rose vp with his brethren the Priests, and they built the sheepe-gate, they sanctified it, & set vp the doores of...
Next unto him repaired Uzziel, the son of Hathaiah, of the goldsmiths, for the tradespeople had organizations of their own and worked together. NEXT UNTO HIM ALSO REPAIRED HANANIAH, THE SON OF ONE OF...
THE WALLS OF THE LOWER CITY...
THE BUILDING WELL BEGUN (vv. 1-32) Eliashib the high priest is mentioned first in the building, not because he was the most devoted builder, but because of his position, for chapter 13:4 tells us th...
FORTIFIED JERUSALEM UNTO THE BROAD WALL: Or, left Jerusalem unto the broad wall...
It is not said _they repaired_, as was said of the rest, but they FORTIFIED it, either because this part of the wall was less demolished than the other, and therefore they needed not to repair it, but...
Nehemiah 3:8 him H3027 Uzziel H5816 son H1121 Harhaiah H2736 goldsmiths H6884 (H8802) repairs H2388 (H8689) him...
‘Next to him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, goldsmiths.' The next part of the wall was repaired by the family or guild of Uzziel ben Harhaiah, who were goldsmiths. The name of the family guild h...
THE REBUILDING OF THE WALLS OF JERUSALEM (NEHEMIAH 3:1). It is difficult to overemphasise the huge impact of what was about to be accomplished. A city which was largely uninhabited, lay partially in r...
CONTENTS: Wall of Jerusalem built. CHARACTERS: God, Artaxerxes, Nehemiah, Sanballat, Tobiah. CONCLUSION: What is to be done for the public good, everyone should have a part in and further to the utm...
Nehemiah 3:1. _Eliashib the highpriest._ He was the son of Joachim, the son of Joshua, and the third highpriest after the first and greatest return of the people from Babylon. _They sanctified it,_ by...
_And they fortified Jerusalem unto the broad wall _ THE BROAD WALL I. The separation of the people of God from the world is like that broad wall surrounding Jerusalem. An actual separation is made b...
_Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren._ THE BUILDERS AT WORK Unity in diversity seems to be the principle on which God works both in the natural and spiritual world--a truth which...
NEHEMIAH—NOTE ON NEHEMIAH 3:8 GOLDSMITHS... PERFUMERS. Many workers were organized in groups by their trade. ⇐...
EXPLANATORY NOTES.] NEHEMIAH 3:1. ELIASHIB] The grandson of Jeshua, and the first high priest after the return from Babylon. No reason to doubt that the same Eliashib is referred to in Ezra 10:6. THE...
EXPOSITION COMMENCEMENT OF THE WORK, AND ARRANGEMENT OF THE WORKING PARTIES, WITH THE NAMES OF THOSE WHO SUPERINTENDED THE BUILDING ...
And in chapter 3, you have the names of all of the families and the section of the walls where they would be working. And because the names really are insignificant to us we're not going to wade throu...
Ecclesiastes 10:1; Exodus 30:25; Genesis 50:2; Isaiah 46:6; Nehe
Fortified — It is not said, they repaired, but they fortified it, either because this part of the wall was less demolished than the other, and therefore they needed not to repair it, but only to make...