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Nehemiah 3:14 Explained in Context

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Verse 14. But the dung gate repaired Malchiah the son of Rechab, the ruler of part of Beth-haccerem; he built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.

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This verse assigns the Dung Gate and its hardware to Malchiah, ruler of Beth-haccerem.

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  • Nehemiah 3:13–3:15

Read Nehemiah 3:13–3:15 together. This verse assigns the Dung Gate and its hardware to Malchiah, ruler of Beth-haccerem. Read Nehemiah 3:13–3:15 as one complete scene: Named district leaders and crews rebuild three gates and associated wall features along Jerusalem's southern route.

Why It Needs Context

This line performs one particular step inside Nehemiah 3:13–3:15; read it with the unit's movement. The route is coherent in the text, but the precise locations of gates, pools, and wall lines remain contested. Specifically, this verse assigns the Dung Gate and its hardware to Malchiah, ruler of Beth-haccerem.

Read Nehemiah 3:13–15 together

Why these verses belong together: The Valley, Dung, and Fountain Gates make a coherent southern circuit with doors, locks, bars, wall segments, pool, and stairs.

Verse 13. The valley gate repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of Zanoah; they built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and a thousand cubits on the wall unto the dung gate.

Verse 14. But the dung gate repaired Malchiah the son of Rechab, the ruler of part of Beth-haccerem; he built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.

Verse 15. But the gate of the fountain repaired Shallun the son of Col-hozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and the wall of the pool of Siloah by the king’s garden, and unto the stairs that go down from the city of David.

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Read Nehemiah 3:13–3:15 — Three southern gates and their structures are repaired
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.

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Exact location: Nehemiah 3:13–3:15, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus

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