Nehemiah 3:13-15

13 Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah repaired ¹the 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.

14 Malchijah the son of Rechab, the official of the district of ²Beth-haccherem repaired the ³Refuse Gate. He built it and hung its doors with its bolts and its bars.

15 Shallum the son of Col-hozeh, the official of the district of Mizpah, ⁴repaired the Fountain Gate. He built it, covered it and hung its doors with its bolts and its bars, and the wall of the Pool of Shelah at ⁵the king's garden as far as ⁶the steps that descend from the city of David.

Nehemiah 3:13-15 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 2:13
• 2. Jeremiah 6:1
• 3. Nehemiah 2:13
• 4. Nehemiah 2:17
• 5. 2 Kings 25:4
• 6. Nehemiah 12:37

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "Gate of Ash-heaps"
• [b]. Lit "Gate of Ash-heaps"