Nehemiah 3:8-13

8 Next * to him Uzziel the son of Harhaiah of the ¹goldsmiths made repairs. And next * to him Hananiah, one of the perfumers, made repairs, and they restored Jerusalem as far as ²the Broad Wall.

9 Next to them Rephaiah the son of Hur, ³the official of half the district of Jerusalem, made repairs.

10 Next * to them Jedaiah the son of Harumaph made repairs opposite his house. And next * to him Hattush the son of Hashabneiah made repairs.

11 Malchijah the son of Harim and Hasshub the son of Pahath-moab repaired another section and ⁴the Tower of Furnaces.

12 Next to him Shallum the son of Hallohesh, ⁵the official of half the district of Jerusalem, made repairs, he and his daughters.

13 Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah repaired ⁶the Valley Gate. They built it and hung its doors with its bolts and its bars, and a thousand cubits of the wall to the Refuse Gate.

Nehemiah 3:8-13 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NEHEMIAH 3

This chapter contains the names of the builders of the wall of Jerusalem, the order in which they worked, where they began, and where they ended, which was the sheep gate, Ne 3:1-32.

Cross References

• 1. Nehemiah 3:31, 32
• 2. Nehemiah 12:38
• 3. Nehemiah 3:12, 17
• 4. Nehemiah 12:38
• 5. Nehemiah 3:9
• 6. Nehemiah 2:13

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "Gate of Ash-heaps"