Nehemia 3:26

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

sampai di depan pintu gerbang Air, di sebelah timur, dan di depan menara yang menonjol. Adapun para budak di bait Allah tinggal di Ofel.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
sampai di depan pintu gerbang Air, di sebelah timur, dan di depan menara yang menonjol. Adapun para budak di bait Allah tinggal di Ofel.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Dan lagi segala Netinim, yang duduk di Ofel, sampai tentang pintu Air yang pada sebelah timur dan sampai kepada menara yang menganjur.

Contextual Overview

¹ And Eliasib the hye priest gat him vp with his brethre the priestes, and they buylded the sheepe gate: they repaired it, and set vp the doores of it: euen vnto the towre Mea repaired they it, and vnto the towre of Hananeel. ² Next vnto him also buylded the men of Iericho: And beside him buylded Sachur the sonne of Amri. ³ But the fishe port did the children of Asnaa buyld, which also layed the beames therof, and set on the doores, lockes, and barres of it. ⁴ And next vnto them buylded Meremoth the sonne of Uria, the sonne of Hakoz: and next vnto them buylded Mesullam the sonne of Berachia, the sonne of Mesesabel: and next vnto them buylded Zadoc the sonne of Baana. ⁵ And next vnto hym buylded they of Thekoa: But the great men that were among them put not their neckes to the worke of their Lorde. ⁶ The olde gate buylded Iehoiada the sonne of Paseah, & Mesullam the sonne of Besodia, they layed the beames therof, and set on the doores, lockes, & barres of it. ⁷ Next vnto them buylded Melatiah of Gibeon, and Iadon of Merona, men of Gibeon and of Mispah, vnto the throne of the duke [which was] beyond the riuer. ⁸ Next vnto him buylded Uzziel the sonne of Harhaiah of the goldesmythes: Next vnto hym also buylded Hananiah the sonne of Harakahim, and they repaired Hierusalem vnto the brode wall. ⁹ Next vnto them buylded Raphaiah the sonne of Hur, the ruler of the halfe part of Hierusalem. ¹⁰ Next vnto him buylded Iedaia the sonne of Harumaph ouer against his house: and next vnto him buylded Hattus the sonne of Hasabnia.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Nethinims: Nehemiah 7:46-56, Nehemiah 10:28, 1 Chronicles 9:2, Ezra 2:43-58

dwelt: etc. or, which dwelt in Ophel, repaired unto

Ophel: or, the tower. Nehemiah 3:27, Nehemiah 11:21, 2 Chronicles 27:3, 2 Chronicles 33:14

the water: The water gate is supposed to have been that by which the Nethinim brought in water for the use of the temple. Nehemiah 8:1, Nehemiah 8:3, Nehemiah 12:37

Reciprocal: Ezra 2:58 - Nethinims Nehemiah 8:16 - the street of the water gate

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Moreover, the Nethinims dwelt in Ophel,.... An high tower upon the wait, in this part of it, see 2 Chronicles 27:3, these were servants to the Levites, and repaired here, where their dwellings were:

unto the place over against the water gate toward the east: and as one part of their work was to fetch water for the temple, they were here very properly situated; it led to the king's garden, the valley of Jehoshaphat, and from thence a plain way to Bethany:

and the tower that lieth out; from the wall.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The constant mention of “priests,” “Levites,” and Nethinims,” sufficiently indicates that the writer is here concerned with the sacerdotal quarter, that immediately about the temple.

Nehemiah 3:18

Bavai - Or, “Binnui” Nehemiah 3:24; Nehemiah 10:9.

The armoury at the turning of the wall - literally, “the armoury of the corner.” The northwestern corner of the special wall of the “city of David” seems to be intended. See Nehemiah 3:1 note.

Nehemiah 3:20

The other piece - Rather, “another piece.” The notice of Baruch’s first piece, like that of Malchijah’s and Hashub’s Nehemiah 3:11, seems to have slipped out of the text.

Nehemiah 3:22

The word here translated “plain” is applied in the rest of Scripture almost exclusively to the Ghor or Jordan valley. Compare, however, Nehemiah 12:28.

Nehemiah 3:24

The turning of the wall - The northeastern angle of the “city of David” seems here to be reached. At this point a tower “lay out” Nehemiah 3:25, or projected extraordinarily, from the wall, being probably a watch-tower commanding the Kidron valley and all the approaches to the city from the southeast, the east, and the northeast.

Nehemiah 3:25

The “king’s high house” is almost certainly the old palace of David, which was on the temple hill, and probably occupied a position directly north of the temple.

That was by the court of the prison - Prisons were in old times adjuncts of palaces. The palace of David must have had its prison; and the “prison gate” Nehemiah 12:39 was clearly in this quarter.

Nehemiah 3:26

The marginal reading is better. On the Nethinims see 1 Chronicles 9:2 note.

Ophel was the slope south of the temple (see the marginal reference “y” note); and the water-gate, a gate in the eastern wall, either for the escape of the superfluous water from the temple reservoirs, or for the introduction of water from the Kidron valley when the reservoirs were low.

Nehemiah 3:27

The foundations of an outlying tower near the southeast angle of the temple area in this position have been recently discovered.

Nehemiah 3:28

“The horse gate” was on the east side of the city, overlooking the Kidron valley. It seems to have been a gate by which horses approached and left the old palace, that of David, which lay north of the temple Nehemiah 3:25.