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Nehemiah 3:26
and the temple servants living on the hill of Ophel made repairs opposite the Water Gate toward the east and the tower that juts out.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Nehemiah records the wall reconstruction project, assigning specific work sections to named individuals and groups. This verse identifies a labor detail during the physical restoration of Jerusalem's defenses.
The words — נְתִינִים (ne.ti.Nim) translates to temple servants, and עֹפֶל ('O.fel) names the hill where they resided. The text notes they dwelt (יֹשְׁבִים, yo.she.Vim) on that hill before moving to their repair site.
The thread — The Water Gate appears in Nehemiah 8:1 and Nehemiah 8:3 as a gathering place for public reading. The temple servants on Ophel are later noted as a settled community under appointed leaders in Nehemiah 11:21.
Why it lands — The text states that a specific residential group was assigned a precise repair sector between two landmarks. It asks the reader to track how named communities are mobilized for collective civic and religious restoration.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Moreover the Nethinims dwelt in Ophel, unto the place over against the water gate toward the east, and the tower that lieth out.
Cross-references
- Nehemiah 8:1 At that time all the people gathered together in the square before the Water Gate, and they asked Ezra the scribe to bring out the Book of the Law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded for Israel.
- Nehemiah 11:21 The temple servants lived on the hill of Ophel, with Ziha and Gishpa over them.
- Nehemiah 8:3 So Ezra read it aloud from daybreak until noon as he faced the square before the Water Gate, in front of the men and women and those who could understand. And all the people listened attentively to the Book of the Law.
- Nehemiah 12:37 At the Fountain Gate they went directly up the steps of the City of David on the ascent to the wall and passed above the house of David to the Water Gate on the east.
- 2 Chronicles 33:14 After this, Manasseh rebuilt the outer wall of the City of David from west of Gihon in the valley to the entrance of the Fish Gate, and he brought it around the hill of Ophel and heightened it considerably. He also stationed military commanders in all the fortified cities of Judah.
- 1 Chronicles 9:2 Now the first to resettle their own property in their cities were Israelites, priests, Levites, and temple servants.
- 2 Chronicles 27:3 Jotham rebuilt the Upper Gate of the house of the LORD, and he worked extensively on the wall at the hill of Ophel.
- Ezra 2:43 The temple servants: the descendants of Ziha, the descendants of Hasupha, the descendants of Tabbaoth,
- Nehemiah 3:27 And next to them, the Tekoites repaired another section, from a point opposite the great tower that juts out to the wall of Ophel.
- Nehemiah 7:46 The temple servants: the descendants of Ziha, the descendants of Hasupha, the descendants of Tabbaoth,