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Nehemiah 3:32 Explained in Context
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Verse 32. 32And between the going up of the corner unto the sheep gate repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants.
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Quick Meaning
This verse closes the circuit between the corner and Sheep Gate with goldsmiths and merchants.
Read It With
- Nehemiah 3:28–3:32
Read Nehemiah 3:28–3:32 together. This verse closes the circuit between the corner and Sheep Gate with goldsmiths and merchants. Read Nehemiah 3:28–3:32 as one complete scene: Work from the Horse Gate through the east and inspection gates reaches the Sheep Gate, closing the chapter's repair circuit.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Priests, household repairers, gatekeepers, merchants, and goldsmiths complete the eastern and northern circuit back to the opening gate. Its placement advances the book. The literary return to the Sheep Gate gives the list closure while keeping many specialized and household contributions visible. Within that movement, this verse closes the circuit between the corner and Sheep Gate with goldsmiths and merchants.
Read Nehemiah 3:28–32 together
Why these verses belong together: Priests, household repairers, gatekeepers, merchants, and goldsmiths complete the eastern and northern circuit back to the opening gate.
Verse 28. 28 From above the horse gate repaired the priests, every one over against his house.
Verse 29. 29 After them repaired Zadok the son of Immer over against his house. After him repaired also Shemaiah the son of Shechaniah, the keeper of the east gate.
Verse 30. 30 After him repaired Hananiah the son of Shelemiah, and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph, another piece. After him repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah over against his chamber.
Verse 31. 31 After him repaired Malchiah the goldsmith’s son unto the place of the Nethinims, and of the merchants, over against the gate Miphkad, and to the going up of the corner.
Verse 32. 32 And between the going up of the corner unto the sheep gate repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants.
What Remains True
Within Nehemiah 3:28–3:32, Nehemiah 3:32 closes the circuit between the corner and Sheep Gate with goldsmiths and merchants. Milestones should be celebrated with precise scope and without erasing unfinished human needs.
How It Can Shape Life
- At Nehemiah 3:32, attend to how the verse closes the circuit between the corner and Sheep Gate with goldsmiths and merchants. State exactly what is complete, which teams made it possible, and what risk or maintenance remains.
Continue in Context
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Read Nehemiah 3:28–3:32 — The circuit closes again at the Sheep GateSources used for this Verse Lens
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Nehemiah 3:28–3:32, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Nehemiah
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, clause relationships, repeated roots, Persian titles, names, and translation controls.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Neh.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 3:28–3:32
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Nehemiah with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: A unit-bounded KJV comparison plus only the lexical, grammatical, textual, historical, literary, or older-English notes actually printed for these verses; silence in the notes is not treated as positive evidence.
Exact location: NET Bible Nehemiah PDF, printed pp. 765–766, translation text and any translator notes printed for 3:28–3:32
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