Nehemiah 3:11 - Exposition

Malchijah and Hashub , who are here said to have repaired, not the other piece , but "a second piece"of the wall, have not been previously mentioned in our present text; whence it has been concluded with reason (Bertheau) that the text is defective, some whole verses having fallen out (comp. Nehemiah 3:20 ). The tower of the furnaces is mentioned again in Nehemiah 12:38 . Its exact position cannot be fixed.