Nehemiah 3:18

Bible in Basic English

After him were working their brothers, Bavvai, the son of Henadad, ruler of half the division of Keilah.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
After him their fellow Levites made repairs under Binnui son of Henadad, ruler of half the district of Keilah.

Hebrew Names Version
After him repaired their brothers, Bavvai the son of Henadad, the ruler of half the district of Ke`ilah.

King James Version
After him repaired their brethren, Bavai the son of Henadad, the ruler of the half part of Keilah.

English Standard Version
After him their brothers repaired: Bavvai the son of Henadad, ruler of half the district of Keilah.

New Century Version
Next to him, Binnui son of Henadad and his relatives made repairs. Binnui was the ruler of the other half of the district of Keilah.

New English Translation
After him their relatives worked—Binnui son of Henadad, head of a half-district of Keilah.

Amplified Bible
After him their brothers carried out repairs under Bavvai the son of Henadad, official of [the other] half of the district of Keilah.

New American Standard Bible
After him their brothers carried out repairs under Bavvai the son of Henadad, official of the other half of the district of Keilah.

World English Bible
After him repaired their brothers, Bavvai the son of Henadad, the ruler of half the district of Keilah.

Geneva Bible (1587)
After him fortified their brethren: Bauai, the sonne of Henadad the ruler of the halfe part of Keilah:

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

Berean Standard Bible
Next to them, their countrymen made repairs under Binnui son of Henadad, ruler of the other half-district of Keilah.

Contemporary English Version
Binnui son of Henadad, who ruled the other half of the district of Keilah;

Complete Jewish Bible
After him their colleagues, Bavai the son of Henadad, leader of half the district of Ke‘ilah, made repairs.

Darby Translation
After him repaired their brethren, Bavvai the son of Henadad, the chief of the half district of Keilah.

Easy-to-Read Version
Their brothers repaired the next section. They worked under Binnui son of Henadad. Binnui was the governor of the other half of the district of Keilah.

George Lamsa Translation
After him repaired their brethren, Banwi the son of Nahdar, the governor of Keilah.

Good News Translation
Bavvai son of Henadad, ruler of the other half of the Keilah District, built the next section;

Lexham English Bible
After him their brothers repaired: Bavvai son of Henadad, commander of half of the district of Keilah,

Literal Translation
After him their brothers Bavai the son of Henadad, the ruler of the half part of Keilah, made strong.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
After him buylded their brethre, Banai the sonne of Henadab, the ruler of the halfe quarter of Segila.

American Standard Version
After him repaired their brethren, Bavvai the son of Henadad, the ruler of half the district of Keilah.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
After him buylded their brethren Bauai the sonne of Henadad the ruler of the halfe part of Keilah.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
After him repaired their brethren, Bavvai the son of Henadad, the ruler of half the district of Keilah.

King James Version (1611)
After him repaired their brethren, Bauai, the sonne of Henadad the ruler of the halfe part of Keilah.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And after him repaired his brethren, Benei son of Enadad, ruler of half the district round about Keila.

English Revised Version
After him repaired their brethren, Bavvai the son of Henadad, the ruler of half the district of Keilah.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The britheren of hem, Bethyn, the sone of Enadab, prince of the half part of Cheyla, bildiden after hym.

Update Bible Version
After him repaired their brothers, Binnui the son of Henadad, the ruler of half the district of Keilah.

Webster's Bible Translation
After him repaired their brethren, Bavai the son of Henadad, the ruler of the half part of Keilah.

New King James Version
After him their brethren, under Bavai Nehemiah 3:24).">[fn] the son of Henadad, leader of the other half of the district of Keilah, made repairs.

New Living Translation
Next down the line were his countrymen led by Binnui son of Henadad, the leader of the other half of the district of Keilah.

New Life Bible
After him their brothers did the needed work, led by Bavvai the son of Henadad, leader of the other half of Keilah.

New Revised Standard
After him their kin made repairs: Binnui, son of Henadad, ruler of half the district of Keilah;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
after him, repaired, their brethren, Bavvai son of Henadad, - ruler of the other half-circuit of Keilah;

Douay-Rheims Bible
After him built their brethren Bavai the son of Enadad, lord of half Ceila.

Revised Standard Version
After him their brethren repaired: Bav'vai the son of Hen'adad, ruler of half the district of Kei'lah;

Young's Literal Translation
After him have their brethren strengthened, [and] Bavvai son of Henadad, head of the half of the district of Keilah.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
After him their brothers carried out repairs under Bavvai the son of Henadad, official of the other half of the district of Keilah.

Contextual Overview

¹ Then Eliashib, the chief priest, got up with his brothers the priests, and took in hand the building of the sheep doorway; they made it holy and put its doors in position; as far as the tower of Hammeah they made it holy, even to the tower of Hananel. ² And by his side the men of Jericho were building. And after them, Zaccur, the son of Imri. ³ The sons of Hassenaah were the builders of the fish doorway; they put its boards in place and put up its doors, with their locks and rods. ⁴ By their side Meremoth, the son of Uriah, the son of Hakkoz, was making good the walls. Then Meshullam, the son of Berechiah, the son of Meshezabel; and by him, Zadok, the son of Baana. ⁵ Near them, the Tekoites were at work; but their chiefs did not put their necks to the work of their Lord. ⁶ Joiada, the son of Paseah, and Meshullam, the son of Besodeiah, made good the old doorway; they put its boards in place and put up its doors, with their locks and rods. ⁷ By their side were working Melatiah the Gibeonite and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon and of Mizpah from the seat of the ruler across the river. ⁸ Near them was working Uzziel, the son of Harhaiah, the gold-worker. And by him was Hananiah, one of the perfume-makers, building up Jerusalem as far as the wide wall. ⁹ Near them was working Rephaiah, the son of Hur, the ruler of half Jerusalem. ¹⁰ By his side was Jedaiah, the son of Harumaph, opposite his house. And by him was Hattush, the son of Hashabneiah.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 23:1 - Keilah Nehemiah 10:9 - Henadad Ezekiel 31:17 - that were

Cross-References

Genesis 3:14
And the Lord God said to the snake, Because you have done this you are cursed more than all cattle and every beast of the field; you will go flat on the earth, and dust will be your food all the days of your life:

Genesis 3:15
And there will be war between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed: by him will your head be crushed and by you his foot will be wounded.

Joshua 23:13
Then you may be certain that the Lord your God will not go on driving these nations out from before you; but they will become a danger and a cause of sin to you, a whip for your sides and thorns in your eyes, till you are cut off from this good land which the Lord your God has given you.

Job 1:21
With nothing I came out of my mother's body, and with nothing I will go back there; the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; let the Lord's name be praised.

Job 5:5
Their produce is taken by him who has no food, and their grain goes to the poor, and he who is in need of water gets it from their spring.

Job 31:40
Then in place of grain let thorns come up, and in place of barley evil-smelling plants.

Psalms 90:3
You send man back to his dust; and say, Go back, you children of men.

Psalms 104:2
You are clothed with light as with a robe; stretching out the heavens like a curtain:

Proverbs 22:5
Thorns and nets are in the way of the twisted: he who keeps watch over his soul will be far from them.

Proverbs 24:31
And it was all full of thorns, and covered with waste plants, and its stone wall was broken down.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

After him repaired their brethren,.... Either the brethren of the two before named particularly, or the Levites their brethren in general, as Jarchi:

Bavai, the son of Henadad, the ruler of the half part of Keilah; the other half of that place.

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.