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Nehemiah 3:25
and Palal son of Uzai made repairs opposite the angle and the tower that juts out from the upper palace of the king near the courtyard of the guard. Next to him, Pedaiah son of Parosh
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Nehemiah records the sequential labor of named Israelites rebuilding Jerusalem’s wall during the post-exilic restoration. The narrator addresses the community by cataloging each worker’s specific assignment along the fortification.
The words — The text uses מִ/נֶּ֣גֶד (mi./Ne.ged), meaning “opposite” or “from before,” and הַ/מִּקְצוֹעַ֒ (ha./mik.tzo.a’), meaning “the buttress” or “angle,” to mark precise construction coordinates. These terms ground the repair work in measurable, physical geography rather than abstract duty.
The thread — The “courtyard of the guard” appears again in Jeremiah 32:2 and Jeremiah 37:21 as a known Jerusalem location tied to royal authority and judgment. The mention of Pedaiah son of Parosh connects to the exile returnee lists in Ezra 2:3, linking this wall project to earlier covenant restoration movements.
Why it lands — The text demands recognition that communal rebuilding depends on localized, accountable labor assigned to specific families. It asks the reader to trace how named individuals fulfill their designated tasks within a larger structural restoration.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Palal the son of Uzai, over against the turning of the wall, and the tower which lieth out from the king’s high house, that was by the court of the prison. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh.
Cross-references
- Jeremiah 32:2 At that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was imprisoned in the courtyard of the guard, which was in the palace of the king of Judah.
- Jeremiah 37:21 So King Zedekiah gave orders for Jeremiah to be placed in the courtyard of the guard and given a loaf of bread daily from the street of the bakers, until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.
- Ezra 2:3 the descendants of Parosh, 2,172;
- Nehemiah 12:39 over the Gate of Ephraim, the Jeshanah Gate, the Fish Gate, the Tower of Hananel, and the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the Sheep Gate. And they stopped at the Gate of the Guard.
- Jeremiah 33:1 While Jeremiah was still confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the LORD came to him a second time:
- Nehemiah 7:8 the descendants of Parosh, 2,172;
- Nehemiah 8:4 Ezra the scribe stood on a high wooden platform built for this occasion. At his right side stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, and at his left were Pedaiah, Mishael, Malchijah, Hashum, Hash-baddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam.
- Jeremiah 22:14 who says, ‘I will build myself a great palace, with spacious upper rooms.’ So he cuts windows in it, panels it with cedar, and paints it with vermilion.
- Jeremiah 39:8 The Chaldeans set fire to the palace of the king and to the houses of the people, and they broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
- Jeremiah 39:14 had Jeremiah brought from the courtyard of the guard, and they turned him over to Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, to take him home. So Jeremiah remained among his own people.