Nehemiah 3:18

Young's Literal Translation

After him have their brethren strengthened, [and] Bavvai son of Henadad, head of the half of the district 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.

Bible in Basic English
After him were working their brothers, Bavvai, the son of Henadad, ruler of half the division 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;

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 And Eliashib the high priest riseth, and his brethren the priests, and they build the sheep-gate; they have sanctified it, and set up its doors, even unto the tower of Meah they have sanctified it, unto the tower of Hananeel; ² and by his hand have men of Jericho built; and by their hand hath Zaccur son of Imri built; ³ and the fish-gate have sons of Hassenaah built, they have walled it, and set up its doors, its locks, and its bars. ⁴ And by their hand hath Merimoth son of Urijah, son of Koz, strengthened; and by his hand hath Meshullam son of Berechiah, son of Meshezabeel, strengthened; and by his hand hath Zadok son of Baana strengthened; ⁵ and by his hand have the Tekoites strengthened, and their honourable ones have not brought in their neck to the service of their Lord. ⁶ And the old gate have Jehoiada son of Paseah, and Meshullam son of Besodeiah, strengthened; they have walled it, and set up its doors, and its locks, and its bars. ⁷ And by their hand hath Melatiah the Gibeonite strengthened, and Jadon the Meronothite, men of Gibeon and of Mizpah, to the throne of the governor beyond the River. ⁸ By his hand hath Uzziel son of Harhaiah of the refiners strengthened; and by his hand hath Hananiah son of [one of] the compounders strengthened; and they leave Jerusalem unto the broad wall. ⁹ And by their hand hath Rephaiah son of Hur, head of the half of the district of Jerusalem, strengthened. ¹⁰ And by their hand hath Jedaiah son of Harumaph strengthened, and over-against his own house; and by his hand hath Hattush son of Hashabniah strengthened.

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 Jehovah God saith unto the serpent, `Because thou hast done this, cursed [art] thou above all the cattle, and above every beast of the field: on thy belly dost thou go, and dust thou dost eat, all days of thy life;

Genesis 3:15
and enmity I put between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; he doth bruise thee -- the head, and thou dost bruise him -- the heel.'

Joshua 23:13
know certainly that Jehovah your God is not continuing to dispossess these nations from before you, and they have been to you for a gin, and for a snare, and for a scourge, in your sides, and for thorns in your eyes, till ye perish from off this good ground which Jehovah your God hath given to you.

Job 1:21
and he saith, `Naked came I forth from the womb of my mother, and naked I turn back thither: Jehovah hath given and Jehovah hath taken: let the name of Jehovah be blessed.'

Job 5:5
Whose harvest the hungry doth eat, And even from the thorns taketh it, And the designing swallowed their wealth.

Job 31:40
Instead of wheat let a thorn go forth, And instead of barley a useless weed! The words of Job are finished.

Psalms 90:3
Thou turnest man unto a bruised thing, And sayest, Turn back, ye sons of men.

Psalms 104:2
Covering himself [with] light as a garment, Stretching out the heavens as a curtain,

Proverbs 22:5
Thorns -- snares [are] in the way of the perverse, Whoso is keeping his soul is far from them.

Proverbs 24:31
And lo, it hath gone up -- all of it -- thorns! Covered its face have nettles, And its stone wall hath been 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.