But the Nethinims dwelt in Ophel: and Ziha and Gispa were over the Nethinims.
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Gill's Exposition
The children also of Benjamin, from Geba, dwelt at Michmash,.... Geba was a city on the southern border of Benjamin, Jos 18:24 and Michmash on the northern, of which see Sa1 13:2 in this and the four…
Barnes' Notes
Ophel, the southern spur of the temple hill, having a wall of its own Neh 3:27 might be reckoned either in Jerusalem or outside it. Here it is made a separate place.
Having given an account of the principal persons that dwelt in Jerusalem (a larger account of whom he had before, Ch1 9:2, etc.), Nehemiah, in these verses, gives us some account of the other cities,…
Cambridge Bible
the Nethinims R.V. the Nethinim.
in Ophel See Neh 3:26. Their quarters were on the summit of the Hill or Mound, S. of the Temple height.
Zihaand Gispa(R.V. Gishpa)] Ziha's name occurs at the head of…