Nehemiah 12:38-39 - Exposition

And the other company . Nehemiah now proceeds to trace the course of the other choir or procession—the one which he himself accompanied. Starting from the same part of the western wall as the other, its course was northward to the N.W. angle of the city wall, after which it was eastward to the "sheep gate, and then southward to the "prison gate." In this part of his description Nehemiah traces the same portion of the wall as that which had engaged his attention in Nehemiah 3:1-11 , and mentions almost exactly the same features, but in the reverse order. For the tower of the furnaces see Nehemiah 3:11 ; for the broad wall , Nehemiah 3:8 ; for the old gate , Nehemiah 3:6 ; for the fish gate , Nehemiah 3:3 ; for the tower of Hananeel, the tower of Meah, and the sheep gate, Nehemiah 3:1 . The gate of Ephraim is not mentioned in Nehemiah 3:1-32 . It must have been in the north wall, a little to the west of the "old gate." The prison gate , also omitted in Nehemiah 3:1-32 ; was probably in the east wall, a little north of the water gate.