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Nehemiah 3:1

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

The high priest Eliashib  and his fellow priests began rebuilding the Sheep Gate.  They dedicated it and installed its doors. After building the wall to the Tower of the Hundred and the Tower of Hananel,  they dedicated it.

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above the Ephraim Gate,  and by the Old Gate,  the Fish Gate,  the Tower of Hananel, and the Tower of the Hundred, to the Sheep Gate.  They stopped at the Gate of the Guard.


‘Look, the days are coming’ #– #the Lord’s declaration #– #‘when the city  from the Tower of Hananel  to the Corner Gate  will be rebuilt for the Lord.


By the Sheep Gate  in Jerusalem there is a pool, called Bethesda  in Aramaic, which has five colonnades.


All the land from Geba  to Rimmon  south of Jerusalem will be changed into a plain. But Jerusalem will be raised up and will remain  on its site from the Benjamin Gate  to the place of the First Gate,  to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the royal winepresses.


Honour the Lord with your possessions and with the first produce of your entire harvest;


Even one of the sons of Jehoiada, son of the high priest Eliashib,  had become a son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite.  So I drove him away from me.


The goldsmiths  and merchants made repairs between the upstairs room on the corner and the Sheep Gate.


in all your ways know him, and he will make your paths straight.


After the priests and Levites had purified themselves, they purified the people, the city gates, and the wall.


When the wall had been rebuilt and I had the doors installed,  the gatekeepers,  singers, and Levites were appointed.


When Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies  heard that I had rebuilt the wall and that no gap was left in it   #– #though at that time I had not installed the doors in the city gates   #– #


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


‘The officers are to address the army, “Has any man built a new house and not dedicated it? Let him leave and return home. Otherwise, he may die in battle and another man dedicate it.


Jeshua fathered Joiakim, Joiakim fathered Eliashib, Eliashib  fathered Joiada,


Know and understand this: From the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until an Anointed One,  the ruler, will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be rebuilt with a square and a moat, but in difficult times.


Beside him Meremoth  son of Uriah, son of Hakkoz, made repairs to another section, from the door of Eliashib’s  house to the end of his house.


Now before this, the priest Eliashib  had been put in charge of the storerooms of the house of our God.  He was a relative  of Tobiah





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