Nehemiah 3:1 (KJV)

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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

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Eliashib. Ne 12:10 Ne 13:28

the sheep gate.This gate is supposed to have immediately communicated with the temple, and to have been called the sheep gate, because the sheep intended for sacrifice passed through it. But, after all which learned men have written on this subject, which is but of little interest, we scarcely know any thing about these gates: what they were, why called by these names, or in what part of the wall they were situated, beyond what may be learned from the parallel passages. Ne 12:39 Joh 5:2

sanctified it. Ne 12:30 De 20:5 Ps 30:1 Pr 3:6 Pr 3:9

the tower. Ne 12:39 Jer 31:38 Zec 14:10

1 The names and order of them that built the wall.

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