Nehemiah 3:1-7
Eliashib <0475> [Eliashib.]
Sheep Gate <06629 08179> [the sheep gate.]
This gate is supposed to have immediately communicated with the temple, and to have been called the sheep gate, because the sheep intended for sacrifice passed through it. But, after all which learned men have written on this subject, which is but of little interest, we scarcely know any thing about these gates: what they were, why called by these names, or in what part of the wall they were situated, beyond what may be learned from the parallel passages.
dedicated .... erected ......... Tower ....... Tower <06942 05975 04026> [sanctified it.]
Tower ....... Tower <04026> [the tower.]
adjacent .......... adjacent <03027> [next unto him. Heb. at his hand. the men.]
Zaccur <02139> [Zaccur.]
Fish Gate <08179 01709> [the fish gate.]
beams <07136> [the beams.]
doors <01817> [the doors.]
Meremoth <04822> [Meremoth.]
Uriah <0223> [Urijah.]
[Uriah. Meshullam.]
Tekoa <08621> [the Tekoites.]
town leaders <0117> [their nobles.]
assist <0935 06677> [put not.]
Gibeonite <01393> [the Gibeonite.]
Mizpah <04709> [Mizpah.]
jurisdiction <03678> [the throne.]
That is, probably, the palace of the Persian governor, west of the Euphrates; the term throne being used to signify any royal abode: for Sir J. Chardin, describing a splendid tent erected by the king of Persia, says "that there was an inscription wrought upon the cornice of the anti-chamber, which gave it the appellation of the throne of the second Solomon." Sitting upon a throne has, however, sometimes been granted to governors.
