Nehemiah 12:37,38 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

By the stairs of the city of David By which they went up to the hill of Zion and the city of David. The other company that gave thanks went over against them Namely, on the other side of the city, northward and eastward. Even unto the broad wall Which they had made thicker and stronger than the rest of the wall, for some special reason.

Nehemiah 12:37-38

37 And at the fountain gate, which was over against them, they went up by the stairs of the city of David, at the going up of the wall, above the house of David, even unto the water gate eastward.

38 And the other company of them that gave thanks went over against them, and I after them, and the half of the people upon the wall, from beyond the tower of the furnaces even unto the broad wall;