Nehemia 3:1

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru

Maka bersiaplah imam besar Elyasib dan para imam, saudara-saudaranya, lalu membangun kembali pintu gerbang Domba. Mereka mentahbiskannya dan memasang pintu-pintunya. Mereka mentahbiskannya sampai menara Mea, menara Hananeel.

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Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
Maka bersiaplah imam besar Elyasib dan para imam, saudara-saudaranya, lalu membangun kembali pintu gerbang Domba. Mereka mentahbiskannya dan memasang pintu-pintunya. Mereka mentahbiskannya sampai menara Mea, menara Hananeel.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Bermula, maka bangkitlah Elyasib, imam besar, serta dengan segala saudaranya, yaitu segala imam, lalu dibangunkannya pintu Domba dan disucikannya dan dikenakannya papan pintu itu; adapun disucikannya itu dari pada menara Meya sampai kepada menara Hananiel.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Eliashib: Nehemiah 12:10, Nehemiah 13:28

the sheep gate: This gate is supposed to have immediately communicated with the temple, and to have been called the sheep gate, because the sheep intended for sacrifice passed through it. But, after all which learned men have written on this subject, which is but of little interest, we scarcely know anything about these gates: what they were, why called by these names, or in what part of the wall they were situated, beyond what may be learned from the parallel passages. Nehemiah 12:39, John 5:2

sanctified it: Nehemiah 12:30, Deuteronomy 20:5, Psalms 30:1, *title Proverbs 3:6, Proverbs 3:9

the tower: Nehemiah 12:39, Jeremiah 31:38, Zechariah 14:10

Reciprocal: Numbers 21:18 - princes Ezra 10:6 - Johanan Nehemiah 2:8 - the wall Nehemiah 3:20 - Eliashib Nehemiah 3:32 - the sheep gate Nehemiah 6:1 - at that time Nehemiah 7:1 - the wall Psalms 147:2 - build Psalms 147:13 - he hath Ecclesiastes 9:10 - thy hand Isaiah 44:26 - and I will Jeremiah 30:18 - the city Daniel 9:25 - from Micah 7:11 - the day

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests,.... This was the grandson of Jeshua or Joshua the high priest, his father's name was Joiakim, Nehemiah 12:10, being high priest, and rising first, he set a good example both to the priests and to the people, and served no doubt greatly to animate and encourage them:

and they built the sheep gate; so called, because the sheep were led through it to the temple, and near it was the sheep market, where they were sold, and the sheep pool, where the sacrifices were washed; and this being near the temple, and for the service of it, the priests undertook that; not that they laboured with their hands at it, though it is possible some of them might; but they were at the expense of it, employed labourers, and paid them, and directed them, and had the oversight of them: this gate was to the south of the city; and Rauwolff u says, it was still standing by Moriah, the mountain of the temple, which the Turks have taken to themselves, and built on it a Turkish mosque or temple. Near the gate you see still, he says, the sheep pond, which is large and deep, wherein the Nethinims used to wash the beasts, and then gave them to the priests; it is said w to lead to the mount of Olives, to Bethany, to Jericho, the desert, and all the east country to Jordan:

they sanctified it; this being for sacred use, and they sacred persons; and this the first part of the building, they prayed for a blessing on it, and in it on the whole work undertaken, of which this was the firstfruits:

and set up the doors of it; and so finished it:

even unto the tower of Meah they sanctified it, unto the tower of Hananeel; so far they built, and what they built they sanctified. The tower of Meah, or a "hundred", as the word signifies, might be so called, either because it was one hundred cubits from the sheep gate on one side, and as many from the tower of Hananeel on the other side, standing between both; or because it was one hundred cubits high: these two towers, perhaps, were firm and strong, and needed no repair, since no mention is made of any; though they seem to me to be one and the same tower; see Jeremiah 31:38.

u Travels, par. 3. c. 3. p. 226, 228. w Vid. Quistorp. in loc.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Eliashib (compare the marginal reference) was the grandson of Joshua, the high priest contemporary with Zerubbabel.

The sheep gate - This was a gate in the eastern wall, not far from the pool of Bethesda, marginal reference, which was perhaps originally a sheep-pool.

The exact line which the writer follows in describing the circuit of the wall will probably be always a matter of dispute. According to the view here taken, the line described commences near the pool of Bethesda, on the east of the city, and is traced thence, first, northward, then westward, then southward, and finally eastward, as far as the pool of Siloam Nehemiah 3:15. From this point, it seems to the writer of this note that the line of the outer wall is not followed, but, instead of this, the inner wall of the “city of David,” which included the temple, is traced. This wall is followed northward from the pool of Siloam, past the “sepulchres of David” and Hezekiah’s pool to the “armoury” Nehemiah 3:19 at its northwest corner; it is then followed eastward to “the tower which lieth out from the king’s house” Nehemiah 3:25; from this it is carried southward, along the western edge of the Kidron valley to the “great tower which lieth out” Nehemiah 3:27, and then southwestward to the point at which it commenced near Siloam Nehemiah 3:27. The special wall of the “city of David” being thus completed, the writer finishes his entire account by filling up the small interval between the northeast angle of this fortification and the “sheep-gate” Nehemiah 3:28-32, from which he started.

They sanctified it - The priests commenced the work with a formal ceremony of consecration. When the work was completed, there was a solemn dedication of the entire circuit (see Nehemiah 12:27-43).

The tower of Hananeel is often mentioned; that of Meah, or rather Hammeah, or “the Hundred,” in Nehemiah only. Both towers must have been situated toward the northeastern corner of the city.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER III

The names of those who rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem; and the

part assigned to each person, 1-32.

NOTES ON CHAP. III

Verse Nehemiah 3:1. Eliashib the high priest — It was right that the priests should be first in this holy work; and perhaps the sheep gate which is mentioned here is that by which the offerings or sacrifices were brought into the temple.

They sanctified it — As they began with the sacred offering as soon as they got an altar built, it was proper that the gate by which these sacrifices entered should be consecrated for this purpose, i. e., set apart, so that it should be for this use only.