Upon the gates - Rather, “in the gates.” This work would naturally be delayed until the last phase.
Related Commentaries of Nehemiah 6:1
Nehemiah 6:1
1 Now it came to pass, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had builded the wall, and that there was no breach left therein; (though at that time I had not set up the doors upon the gates;)