Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Nehemiah 3:28
From above the horse gate. — This gate was between the Temple and the palace, and the space from the wall of Ophel seems not to have needed repair.
From above the horse gate. — This gate was between the Temple and the palace, and the space from the wall of Ophel seems not to have needed repair.
Verse 28. _THE HORSE GATE_] The place through which the _horses_ passed in order to be watered; It was near the temple. Some rabbins suppose that in order to go to the temple, a person might go on hor...
The constant mention of “priests,” “Levites,” and Nethinims,” sufficiently indicates that the writer is here concerned with the sacerdotal quarter, that immediately about the temple. Nehemiah 3:18 BA...
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....
THE HORSE GATE. See App-59. ONE. man. Hebrew. _'Ish._ App-14....
_From above_ R.V. ABOVE. The word implies that the dwellingplaces of the priests stood on higher ground. _the horse gate_ This gate is mentioned 2 Kings 11:16; 2 Chronicles 23:15; Jeremiah 31:40, wh
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...
THE HORSE GATE] This, like the 'water gate,' faced eastward (Jeremiah 31:40)....
PARTICULARS RESPECTING THE REBUILDING 1. Then, etc.] For the purposes of repair the wall was parcelled out between a number of working parties consisting of various important families, the inhabitants...
In this part of the wall, some more people repaired the wall near their own houses. Also Binnui repaired a second section of the wall (Nehemiah 3:18). The *temple servants also helped to build the wa...
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...
מֵ עַ֣ל ׀ שַׁ֣עַר הַ סּוּסִ֗ים הֶחֱזִ֨יקוּ֙ ה
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...
_Horse-gate, by which the king's horses were led to water, at the torrent Cedron. It was near the temple and palace, 4 Kings xi. 16. (Calmet) --- Some Rabbins assert that people were obliged to alight...
(13) The valley gate repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of Zanoah; they built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and a thousand cubits on the wall unto the dun...
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...
From above the horse gate repaired the priests, every one over against his house. Ver. 28. _From above the horse gate_] So called, say some, because there they were wont to dismount, leaving their ho...
_From above the horse-gate_ Not that belonging to the king's palace, (2 Chronicles 23:15,) but one of the gates of the city, so called, probably, because the horses commonly went out that way to their...
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...
From above the Horse Gate, which was between the Temple and the royal palace, REPAIRED THE PRIESTS, EVERY ONE OVER AGAINST HIS HOUSE....
THE WALLS OF ZION...
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...
THE HORSE GATE; not that belonging to the king's palace, 2 CHRONICLES 23:15, but one of the gates of the city so called; either because nigh unto that were many stables for horses, or because the hors...
Nehemiah 3:28 Horse H5483 Gate H8179 priests H3548 repairs H2388 (H8689) each H376 front H5048 house H1004...
‘Above the horse gate repaired the priests, every one over against his own house.' As we have seen the Nethinim (Temple Servants) dwelt at the low point of the Ophel (the ground rising towards the Tem...
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...
Nehemiah 3:28 I. The ruins which need repair. Most of us have got so familiarised with the evils that stare us in the face every time we go out upon the pavements, that we have come to think of them a...
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...
_From above the horse gate repaired the priests, every one over against his house._ HOW TO SWEETEN THE LIFE OF GREAT CITIES I take these words mainly as suggesting some thoughts applicable to the du...
_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...
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...
2 Chronicles 23:15; 2 Kings 11:16; Jeremiah 31:40; Nehemiah 3:10;...