Nehemiah 3:26 meaning and explanation

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

Nehemiah 3:26, Berean Standard Bible

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Nehemiah is listing the crews repairing Jerusalem's wall, section by section, in the fifth century BC. Here he names the temple servants, a hereditary group called the Nethinim in Hebrew, who lived on Ophel, the ridge just south of the temple mount.

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