Nehemiah 3

CHAPTER 3

Building and Repairing the Wall

¹Then ^aEliashib the high priest arose with his brothers the priests and built ^bthe Sheep Gate; they set it apart as holy and ^cmade its doors stand. And they set apart as holy ¹the wall to ^dthe Tower of the Hundred and ^ethe Tower of Hananel.

²Next to him ^athe men of Jericho built, and next to ¹them Zaccur the son of Imri built.

³Now the sons of Hassenaah built ^athe Fish Gate; they laid its beams and made its doors stand with its bolts and bars.

⁴Next to them Meremoth the son of Uriah the son of Hakkoz made repairs. And next to them Meshullam the son of Berechiah the son of Meshezabel made repairs. And next to them Zadok the son of Baana also made repairs.

⁵Moreover, next to them the Tekoites made repairs, but their nobles did not ¹support the service of their masters.

⁶Joiada the son of Paseah and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah repaired ^athe Old Gate; they laid its beams and made its doors stand with its bolts and its bars.

⁷Next to them Melatiah the Gibeonite and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon and of Mizpah, ¹also made repairs for the official seat of the ^agovernor of the province beyond the River.

⁸Next to him Uzziel the son of Harhaiah of the ^agoldsmiths made repairs. And next to him Hananiah, one of the perfumers, made repairs, and they restored Jerusalem as far as ^bthe Broad Wall.

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

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

¹¹Malchijah the son of Harim and Hasshub the son of Pahath-moab repaired ¹another section and ^athe Tower of Furnaces.

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

¹³Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah repaired ^athe Valley Gate. They built it and made its doors stand with its bolts and its bars, and ¹one thousand cubits of the wall to the ²Dung Gate.

¹⁴Malchijah the son of Rechab, the official of the district of ^aBeth-haccherem, repaired the ^1bDung Gate. He built it and made its doors stand with its bolts and its bars.

¹⁵Shallum the son of Col-hozeh, the official of the district of Mizpah, ^arepaired the Spring Gate. He built it, covered it and made its doors stand with its bolts and its bars, and the wall of the Pool of Shelah at ^bthe king’s garden as far as ^cthe steps that descend from the city of David.

¹⁶After him Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, ^aofficial of half the district of Beth-zur, made repairs as far as a point opposite the tombs of David, and as far as ^bthe artificial pool and the house of the mighty men.

¹⁷After him the Levites made repairs under Rehum the son of Bani. Next to him Hashabiah, the official of half the district of Keilah, made repairs for his district.

¹⁸After him their brothers made repairs under Bavvai the son of Henadad, the official of the other half of the district of Keilah.

¹⁹Next to him Ezer the son of Jeshua, ^athe official of Mizpah, repaired another section in front of the ascent of the armory ^bat the Angle.

²⁰After him Baruch the son of Zabbai zealously repaired another section, from the Angle to the doorway of the house of ^aEliashib the high priest.

²¹After him Meremoth the son of Uriah the son of Hakkoz repaired another section, from the doorway of Eliashib’s house even as far as the end of Eliashib’s house.

²²After him the priests, ^athe men of the ¹valley, made repairs.

²³After ¹them Benjamin and Hasshub made repairs in front of their house. After ²them Azariah the son of Maaseiah, son of Ananiah, made repairs beside his house.

²⁴After him Binnui the son of Henadad repaired another section, from the house of Azariah as far as ^athe Angle and as far as the corner.

²⁵Palal the son of Uzai made repairs in front of the Angle and the tower projecting from the upper house of the king, which is by ^athe court of the guard. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh made repairs.

^26aThe temple servants living in ^bOphel made repairs as far as the front of ^cthe Water Gate toward the east and the projecting tower.

²⁷After ¹them ^athe Tekoites repaired another section in front of the great projecting tower and as far as the wall of Ophel.

²⁸Above ^athe Horse Gate the priests made repairs, each in front of his house.

²⁹After ¹them Zadok the son of Immer made repairs in front of his house. And after him Shemaiah the son of Shecaniah, the keeper of the East Gate, made repairs.

³⁰After him Hananiah the son of Shelemiah, and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph, repaired another section. After him Meshullam the son of Berechiah made repairs in front of his own ¹quarters.

³¹After him Malchijah, ¹one of ^athe goldsmiths, made repairs as far as the house of the temple servants and of the merchants, in front of the ²Inspection Gate, and as far as the upper room of the corner.

³²Between the upper room of the corner and ^athe Sheep Gate, the goldsmiths and the merchants made repairs.