Repairers of the wall and gates
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📚Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they built the Sheep Gate. They dedicated it and set up its doors. They built and dedicated the wall to the Tower of Meah, to the Tower of Hananeel. 3:1 All classes of people had a part in the work – priests (v 1), goldsmiths and perfume-makers (v 8), rulers and women (v 12), Levites (v 17), merchants (v 32). So among believers now there is a place for each one in the work of God – 1 Cor 12:7-11.⚜
2 📚And next to him the men of Jericho 📖 built. And next to them Zaccur the son of Imri built.
3 📚And the sons of Hassenaah built the Fish Gate. They also laid its beams and set up its doors, its locks, and its bars. 4 📚And next to them Meremoth the son of Uriah, the son of Koz, made repairs. And next to them Meshullam the son of Berechiah, the son of Meshezabeel made repairs. And next to them Zadok the son of Baana made repairs. 5 📚And next to them the Tekoites made repairs, but their nobles 📖 did not put their necks to the work of their Lord.
6 📚Moreover, Jehoiada the son of Paseah, and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah repaired the Old Gate. They laid its beams, and set up its doors and its locks and its bars. 7 📚And next to them Melatiah the Gibeonite and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon and of Mizpah, made repairs to the place of the throne of the governor on this side of the River. 8 📚Next to him Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, of the goldsmiths, made repairs. And next to him Hananiah, the son of one of the perfumers, made repairs, and they fortified Jerusalem to the Broad Wall. 9 📚And next to them Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler of half of the district of Jerusalem, made repairs. 10 📚And next to them Jedaiah the son of Harumaph, made repairs opposite his house. And next to him Hattush the son of Hashabniah made repairs. 11 📚Malchijah the son of Harim, and Hashub the son of Pahath-Moab, repaired another section and the Tower of the Furnaces. 12 📚And next to him Shallum the son of Halohesh, the ruler of half of the district of Jerusalem, made repairs, he and his daughters.
13 📚Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah repaired the Valley Gate. They built it, and set up its doors, its locks, and its bars, and repaired a thousand cubits on the wall as far as the Refuse Gate.
14 📚And Malchiah the son of Rechab, the ruler of part of Beth-Hakkerem, repaired the Refuse Gate. He built it and set up its doors, its locks, and its bars.
15 📚And Shallun the son of Colhozeh, the ruler of a district of Mizpah, repaired the Fountain Gate. He built it and covered it and set up its doors, its locks, and its bars. And he repaired the wall of the Pool of Siloah 📖 by the king’s garden, and the steps that go down from the City of David. 16 📚Beyond him Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of half of the district of Beth-Zur, made repairs to the place opposite the Tombs of David, and to the artificial pool, and to the House of the Mighty.
17 📚Beyond him the Levite Rehum the son of Bani made repairs. Next to him Hashabiah, the ruler of half the district of Keilah, made repairs for his district. 18 Beyond him their brethren, Bavai the son of Henadad, the ruler of half the district of Keilah, made repairs. 19 📚And next to him Ezer the son of Jeshua, the ruler of Mizpah, repaired another section opposite the ascent to the armoury where the wall turns. 20 📚Beyond him Baruch the son of Zabbai carefully repaired the other section, from where the wall turns to the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest. 21 📚Beyond him Meremoth the son of Uriah the son of Koz repaired another section, from the door of the house of Eliashib to the far side of the house of Eliashib.
22 📚And beyond him the priests, the men of the plain, made repairs. 23 📚Beyond him Benjamin and Hashub made repairs opposite their house. Beyond him Azariah the son of Maaseiah the son of Ananiah made repairs by his house. 24 📚Beyond him Binnui the son of Henadad repaired another section, from the house of Azariah to the place where the wall turns, as far as the corner. 25 📚Palal the son of Uzai made repairs opposite the place where the wall turns, and on to the tower which projects out from the king’s upper house that was by the court of the prison. Beyond him Pedaiah the son of Parosh made repairs. 26 📚Moreover, the Nethinims who lived in Ophel made repairs to the place opposite the water gate toward the east, and on to the tower that projects out. 27 📚Beyond them the Tekoites repaired another section, opposite the great tower that projects out, on to the Wall of Ophel.
3:27 The men of Tekoa repaired two sections of the wall while their “nobles” refused to do anything (v 5).⚜
28 📚The priests made repairs from above the Horse Gate, each opposite his house. 29 📚Beyond them Zadok the son of Immer made repairs opposite his house. And beyond him Shemaiah the son of Shechaniah, the guard at the east gate, made repairs. 30 Beyond him Hananiah the son of Shelemiah and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph repaired another section. Beyond him Meshullam the son of Berechiah made repairs opposite his chamber. 31 📚Beyond him Malchiah, the goldsmith’s son, made repairs to the Place of the Nethinims, and of the merchants, opposite the Miphkad Gate, and as far as the upper room at the corner. 32 📚And between the upper room at the corner and the Sheep Gate 📖 the goldsmiths and the merchants made repairs.