Nehemiah 3:1

Rebuilding the Wall

1 Then a Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests b and built the Sheep Gate; they consecrated it and hung its doors. They built c as far as the Tower of 1 the Hundred, and consecrated it, then as far as the Tower of d Hananel.

  1. Cross References
    Nehemiah 3:20
    After him Baruch the son of Zabbai carefully repaired the other section, from the buttress to the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest.
    Nehemiah 12:10
    Jeshua begot Joiakim, Joiakim begot Eliashib, Eliashib begot Joiada.
    Nehemiah 13:4
    Now before this, Eliashib the priest, having authority over the storerooms of the house of our God, was allied with Tobiah.
    Nehemiah 13:7
    And I came to Jerusalem and discovered the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah, in preparing a room for him in the courts of the house of God.
    Nehemiah 13:28
    And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was a son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite; therefore I drove him from me.
  2. Cross References
    John 5:2
    Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches.
  3. Cross References
    Nehemiah 12:39
    And above the Gate of Ephraim, above the Old Gate, above the Fish Gate, the Tower of Hananel, the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the Sheep Gate; and they stopped by the Gate of the Prison.
  4. Cross References
    Jeremiah 31:38
    Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, that the city shall be built for the LORD from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate.
    Zechariah 14:10
    All the land shall be turned into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be raised up and inhabited in her place from Benjamin's Gate to the place of the First Gate and the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king's winepresses.
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