Nehemiah 12:37

12:37 They went over the Fountain Gate and continued directly up the steps of the City of David on the ascent to the wall. They passed the house of David and continued on to the Water Gate toward the east.

Nehemiah 3:28

3:28 Above the Horse Gate the priests worked, each in front of his house.

Nehemiah 12:39

12:39 over the Ephraim Gate, the Jeshanah Gate, ¹  the Fish Gate, the Tower of Hananel, and the Tower of the Hundred, to the Sheep Gate. They stopped ²  at the Gate of the Guard.

Nehemiah 2:14

2:14 I passed on to the Gate of the Well and the King’s Pool, where there was not enough room for my animal to pass with me.

Nehemiah 3:3

3:3 The sons of Hassenaah rebuilt the Fish Gate. They laid its beams and positioned its doors, its bolts, and its bars.

Nehemiah 3:26

3:26 and the temple servants who were living on Ophel worked ³  up to the area opposite the Water Gate toward the east and the protruding tower.

Nehemiah 3:13

3:13 Hanun and the residents of Zanoah worked on the Valley Gate. They rebuilt it and positioned its doors, its bolts, and its bars, in addition to working on fifteen hundred feet ⁴  of the wall as far as the Dung Gate.

Nehemiah 8:16

8:16 So the people went out and brought these things ⁵  back and constructed temporary shelters for themselves, each on his roof and in his courtyard and in the courtyards of the temple ⁶  of God and in the plaza of the Water Gate and the plaza of the Ephraim Gate.

Nehemiah 3:6

3:6 Joiada son of Paseah and Meshullam son of Besodeiah worked on the Jeshanah Gate. ⁷  They laid its beams and positioned its doors, its bolts, and its bars.

Nehemiah 3:14

3:14 Malkijah son of Recab, head of the district of Beth Hakkerem, worked on the Dung Gate. He rebuilt it and positioned its doors, its bolts, and its bars.

Nehemiah 3:29

3:29 After them Zadok son of Immer worked opposite his house, and after him Shemaiah son of Shecaniah, guard at the East Gate, worked.

Nehemiah 3:31

3:31 After him Malkijah, one of the goldsmiths, worked as far as the house of the temple servants and the traders, opposite the Inspection Gate, ⁸  and up to the room above the corner.

Nehemiah 2:13

2:13 I proceeded through the Valley Gate by night, in the direction of the Well of the Dragons ⁹  and the Dung Gate, ¹⁰  inspecting ¹¹  the walls of Jerusalem that had been breached and its gates that had been destroyed by fire.

Nehemiah 3:1

The Names of the Builders

3:1 Then Eliashib the high priest and his priestly colleagues ¹²  arose and built the Sheep Gate. They dedicated ¹³  it and erected its doors, working as far as the Tower of the Hundred ¹⁴  and ¹⁵  the Tower of Hananel.

Nehemiah 3:15

3:15 Shallun son of Col-Hozeh, head of the district of Mizpah, worked on the Fountain Gate. He rebuilt it, put on its roof, and positioned its doors, its bolts, and its bars. In addition, he rebuilt the wall of the Pool of Siloam, ¹⁶  by the royal garden, as far as the steps that go down from the City of David.

Nehemiah 8:1

8:1 all the people gathered together ¹⁷  in the plaza which was in front of the Water Gate. They asked ¹⁸  Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses which the LORD had commanded Israel.

Nehemiah 8:3

8:3 So he read it before the plaza in front of the Water Gate from dawn till noon ¹⁹  before the men and women and those children who could understand. ²⁰  All the people were eager to hear ²¹  the book of the law.

¹ tn Or “the Old Gate” (so KJV, NASB, NCV, NRSV).

² tn Heb “they stood.”

¹ tc The Hebrew text lacks the verb “worked.” It is implied, however, and has been supplied in the translation.

¹ tn Heb “one thousand cubits.” The standard cubit in the OT is assumed by most authorities to be about eighteen inches (45 cm) long, so this section of the wall would be about fifteen hundred feet (450 m).

¹ tn The words “these things” are not in the Hebrew text but have been supplied in the translation for clarity.

² tn Heb “the house.”

¹ tn Or “the Old Gate” (cf. KJV, ASV, NASB, NCV, NRSV, NLT).

¹ tn Heb “Miphkad Gate” (so TEV; KJV similar); NRSV “Muster Gate.”

¹ tn Or “Well of the Serpents”; or “Well of the Jackals” (cf. ASV, NIV, NLT).

² tn Or “Rubbish Gate” (so TEV); NASB “Refuse Gate”; NCV “Trash Gate”; CEV “Garbage Gate.”

³ tc For the MT reading שֹׂבֵר (sover, “inspecting”) the LXX erroneously has שֹׁבֵר (shover, “breaking”). However, further destruction of Jerusalem’s walls was obviously not a part of Nehemiah’s purpose.

¹ tn Heb “his brothers the priests.”

² tn Or “consecrated” (so NASB, NRSV); KJV, ASV “sanctified”; NCV “gave it to the Lord’s service.”

³ tc The MT adds קִדְּשׁוּהוּ (qidshuhu, “they sanctified it”). This term is repeated from the first part of the verse, probably as an intentional scribal addition to harmonize this statement with the preceding parallel statement.

⁴ tc The translation reads וְעַד (vÿ’ad, “and unto”) rather than the MT reading עַד (ad, “unto”). The original vav (ו) was probably dropped accidentally due to haplography with the final vav on the immediately preceding word in the MT.

¹ tn The Hebrew word translated “Siloam” is הַשֶּׁלַח (hashelakh, “water-channel”; cf. ASV, NASB, NRSV, TEV, CEV “Shelah”). It apparently refers to the Pool of Siloam whose water supply came from the Gihon Spring via Hezekiah’s Tunnel built in 701 B.C. (cf. Isa 8:6). See BDB 1019 s.v. שִׁלֹחַ; W. L. Holladay, Concise Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon, 372. On the etymology of the word, which is a disputed matter, see HALOT 1517 s.v. III שֶׁלַח.

¹ tn Heb “like one man.”

² tn Heb “said [to].”

¹ tn Heb “from the light till the noon of the day.”

² tn Heb “all who could hear with understanding.” The word “children” is understood to be implied here by a number of English versions (e.g., NAB, TEV, NLT).

³ tn Heb “the ears of all the people were toward.”