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Nehemiah 3:26

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

and the temple servants  living on Ophel  made repairs opposite the Water Gate  towards the east and the tower that juts out.

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The temple servants lived on Ophel;  Ziha and Gishpa supervised the temple servants.


all the people gathered together  at the square in front of the Water Gate.  They asked the scribe Ezra  to bring the book of the law of Moses  that the Lord had given to Israel.


At the Fountain Gate  they climbed the steps of the city of David  on the ascent of the wall and went above the house of David to the Water Gate  on the east.


While he was facing the square in front of the Water Gate,  he read out of it from daybreak until noon before the men, the women, and those who could understand. All the people listened attentively  to the book of the law.


After this, he built the outer wall of the city of David from west of Gihon  in the valley to the entrance of the Fish Gate;  he brought it round Ophel,  and he heightened it considerably. He also placed military commanders in all the fortified cities of Judah.


Jotham built the Upper Gate of the Lord’s temple, and he built extensively on the wall of Ophel.


The rest of the people #– #the priests, Levites, gatekeepers, singers, and temple servants, along with their wives, sons, and daughters, everyone who is able to understand  and who has separated themselves from the surrounding peoples  to obey the law of God #– #


The people went out, brought back branches, and made shelters for themselves on each of their rooftops  and courtyards, the court of the house of God, the square by the Water Gate,  and the square by the Ephraim Gate.


Next to him the Tekoites  made repairs to another section from a point opposite the great tower that juts out, as far as the wall of Ophel.


The first  to live in their towns on their own property again were Israelites, priests, Levites, and temple servants.


For the palace will be deserted, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become barren places for ever, the joy of wild donkeys, and a pasture for flocks,





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