Nehemiah 3:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹ Then the high priest Eliashib set to work with his fellow priests and rebuilt the Sheep Gate. They consecrated it and set up its doors; they consecrated it as far as the Tower of the Hundred and as far as the Tower of Hananel.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they builded the sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even unto the tower of Meah they sanctified it, unto the tower of Hananeel.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ THEN ELIASHIB the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests and built the Sheep Gate. They consecrated it and set up its doors; they consecrated it even to the Tower of Hammeah or the Hundred, as far as the Tower of Hananel.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they builded the sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even unto the tower of Hammeah they sanctified it, unto the tower of Hananel.

Common English Bible

¹ Then Eliashib the high priest set to work with his fellow priests and built the Sheep Gate. They dedicated it and set up its doors, then dedicated it as far as the Tower of the Hundred and as far as the Tower of Hananel.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ And Eliashib, the great priest, rose up, with his brothers, the priests, and they built the gate of the flock. They sanctified it, and they set up its double doors, and as far as the tower of one hundred cubits, they sanctified it, even to the tower of Hananel.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ Then Eliasib the high priest arose, and his brethren the priests, and they built the flock gate. They sanctified it, and set up the doors thereof, even unto the tower of a hundred cubits they sanctified it, unto the tower of Hananeel.

Nehemiah 3:1 Cross References

Nehemiah 12:10

Jeshua was the father of Joiakim, Joiakim the father of Eliashib, Eliashib the father of Joiada,

Nehemiah 12:30

And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and they purified the people and the gates and the wall.

Nehemiah 12:39

and above the Gate of Ephraim, and by the Old Gate, and by the Fish Gate and the Tower of Hananel and the Tower of the Hundred, to the Sheep Gate, and they came to a halt at the Gate of the Guard.

Nehemiah 13:28

And one of the sons of Jehoiada, son of the high priest Eliashib, was the son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite; I chased him away from me.

Nehemiah 13:4

Now before this, Eliashib the priest, who was appointed over the chambers of the house of our God and who was related to Tobiah,

Nehemiah 3:20

After him Baruch son of Zabbai repaired another section from the Angle to the door of the house of the high priest Eliashib.

Nehemiah 3:21

After him Meremoth son of Uriah son of Hakkoz repaired another section from the door of the house of Eliashib to the end of the house of Eliashib.

Nehemiah 3:32

And between the upper room of the corner and the Sheep Gate the goldsmiths and the merchants made repairs.

Nehemiah 6:1

Now when it was reported to Sanballat and Tobiah and to Geshem the Arab and to the rest of our enemies that I had built the wall and that there was no gap left in it (though up to that time I had not set up the doors in the gates),

Nehemiah 7:1

Now when the wall had been built and I had set up the doors and the gatekeepers, the singers, and the Levites had been appointed,

Psalm 30:1

I will extol you, O Lord, for you have drawn me up and did not let my foes rejoice over me.

Psalm 48:12

Walk about Zion; go all around it; count its towers;

Proverbs 3:6

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Proverbs 3:9

Honor the Lord with your substance and with the first fruits of all your produce;

Jeremiah 31:38

The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when the city shall be rebuilt for the Lord from the tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate.

Daniel 9:25

Know therefore and understand: from the time that the word went out to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the time of an anointed prince, there shall be seven weeks, and for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again with streets and moat, but in a troubled time.

Zechariah 14:10

The whole land shall be turned into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. But Jerusalem shall remain aloft on its site from the Gate of Benjamin to the place of the former gate, to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king’s winepresses.

John 5:2

Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool, called in Hebrew Beth-zatha, which has five porticoes.

Deuteronomy 20:5

Then the officers shall address the troops, saying, ‘Has anyone built a new house but not dedicated it? He should go back to his house, lest he die in the battle and another dedicate it.