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Brenton's Septuagint

Nehemiah 3:22

And after him repaired the priests, the men of Ecchechar.

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Plain;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Hananeel, Tower of;   Jerusalem;   Pahath Moab;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Nehemiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Isaiah, Book of;   Nehemiah;   Nehemiah, Book of;   Plain;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Joram;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Jerusalem;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Circuit;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Jerusalem;   Kikkar;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
And next to him the priests from the surrounding area made repairs.
Hebrew Names Version
After him repaired the Kohanim, the men of the Plain.
King James Version
And after him repaired the priests, the men of the plain.
English Standard Version
After him the priests, the men of the surrounding area, repaired.
New Century Version
Next to him worked the priests from the surrounding area.
New English Translation
After him the priests worked, men of the nearby district.
Amplified Bible
After him the priests, the men of the [lower Jordan] valley, carried out repairs.
New American Standard Bible
And after him the priests, the men of the vicinity, carried out repairs.
World English Bible
After him repaired the priests, the men of the Plain.
Geneva Bible (1587)
After him also fortified the Priests, the men of the playne.
Legacy Standard Bible
After him the priests, the men of the valley, made repairs.
Berean Standard Bible
And next to him, the priests from the surrounding area made repairs.
Contemporary English Version
Here is a list of the priests who worked on the wall: Priests from the region around Jerusalem rebuilt the next section of the wall.
Complete Jewish Bible
After him the cohanim from the plain made repairs.
Darby Translation
And after him repaired the priests, the men of the plain [of Jordan].
Easy-to-Read Version
The next section of walls was repaired by the priests who lived in that area.
George Lamsa Translation
After him repaired the priests, the men of the plain.
Good News Translation
The following priests rebuilt the next several sections of the wall: Priests from the area around Jerusalem built the next section;
Lexham English Bible
After him the priests, men from the vicinity, repaired.
Literal Translation
And after him the priests, the men of the plain, made strong.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
After him buylded the prestes, the me of the countre.
American Standard Version
And after him repaired the priests, the men of the Plain.
Bible in Basic English
After him were working the priests, the men of the lowland.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
After him buylded the priestes, the men of the playne.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And after him repaired the priests, the men of the Plain.
King James Version (1611)
And after him repaired the Priests, the men of the plaine.
English Revised Version
And after him repaired the priests, the men of the Plain.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And prestis, men of the feeldi places of Jordan, bildiden aftir hym.
Update Bible Version
And after him repaired the priests, the men of the Plain.
Webster's Bible Translation
And after him repaired the priests, the men of the plain.
New King James Version
And after him the priests, the men of the plain, made repairs.
New Living Translation
The next repairs were made by the priests from the surrounding region.
New Life Bible
After him the religious leaders, the men of the valley, did the needed work.
New Revised Standard
After him the priests, the men of the surrounding area, made repairs.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and, after him, repaired, the priests, the men of the Circuit;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And after him built the priests, the men of the plains of the Jordan.
Revised Standard Version
After him the priests, the men of the Plain, repaired.
Young's Literal Translation
And after him have the priests, men of the circuit, strengthened.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
After him the priests, the men of the valley, carried out repairs.

Contextual Overview

1 Then Eliasub the high priest, and his brethren the priests, rose up, and built the sheep-gate; they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even to the tower of the hundred they sanctified it, to the tower of Anameel. 2 And they builded by the side of the men of Jericho, and by the side of the sons of Zacchur, the son of Amari. 3 And the sons of Asana built the fish-gate; they roofed it, and covered in its doors, and bolts, and bars. 4 And next to them the order reached to Ramoth the son of Uria, the son of Accos, and next to them Mosollam son of Barachias the son of Mazebel took his place: and next to them Sadoc the son of Baana took his place. 5 And next to them the Thecoim took their place; but the Adorim applied not their neck to their service. 6 And Joida the son of Phasec, and Mesulam son of Basodia, repaired the old gate; they covered it in, and set up its doors, and its bolts, and its bars. 7 And next to them repaired Maltias the Gabaonite, and Evaron the Meronothite, the men of Gabaon and Maspha, to the throne of the governor on this side the river. 8 And next to him Oziel the son of Arachias of the smiths, carried on the repairs: and next to them Ananias the son of one of the apothecaries repaired, and they finished Jerusalem to the broad wall. 9 And next to them repaired Raphaea the son of Sur, the ruler of half the district round about Jerusalem. 10 And next to them repaired Jedaia the son of Eromaph, and that in front of his house: and next to him repaired Attuth son of Asabania.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the men of the plain: Nehemiah 6:2, Nehemiah 12:28

Cross-References

Genesis 1:26
And God said, Let us make man according to our image and likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the flying creatures of heaven, and over the cattle and all the earth, and over all the reptiles that creep on the earth.
Genesis 2:9
And God made to spring up also out of the earth every tree beautiful to the eye and good for food, and the tree of life in the midst of the garden, and the tree of learning the knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 3:5
And the serpent said to the woman, Ye shall not surely die.
Genesis 3:6
For God knew that in whatever day ye should eat of it your eyes would be opened, and ye would be as gods, knowing good and evil.
Genesis 3:7
And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes to look upon and beautiful to contemplate, and having taken of its fruit she ate, and she gave to her husband also with her, and they ate.
Genesis 3:12
And God said to him, Who told thee that thou wast naked, unless thou hast eaten of the tree concerning which I charged thee of it alone not to eat?
Genesis 3:13
And Adam said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me—she gave me of the tree and I ate.
Psalms 22:26
The poor shall eat and be satisfied; and they shall praise the Lord that seek him: their heart shall live for ever.
Proverbs 3:18
She is a tree of life to all that lay hold upon her; and she is a secure help to all that stay themselves on her, as on the Lord.
Jeremiah 22:23
O thou that dwellest in Libanus, making thy nest in the cedars, thou shalt groan heavily, when pangs as of a travailing woman are come upon thee.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And after him repaired the priests, the men of the plain. Either of the plain of Jericho, where, in later times at least, there was a station of the priests, or of the plain about Jerusalem; those also assisted in the repairs of 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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 22. The priests, the men of the plain. — Some of the officers of the temple, particularly the singers, dwelt in the plain country round about Jerusalem, Nehemiah 12:28; and it is likely that several of the priests dwelt in the same place.


 
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