Nehemiah 3:6

“Moreover, the old gate repaired Jehoiada, the son of Paseah, and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah, etc.] Which some think was so called because it led to the old city Salem. Dr. Lightfoot f24 thinks it is the same with the second or third gate, (<360110>Zephaniah 1:10). According to Vatablus, it was the gate of the old pool, (<232211>Isaiah 22:11), or rather, perhaps, it was the gate of the old wall Josephus speaks of f25; it led to the north of the land: they laid the beams thereof; as in (<160303>Nehemiah 3:3).”

“The old gate - Either the modern Damascus gate, the main entrance to the city on the north side; or a gate a little further eastward. return to 'Top of Page'”

“3:6-8 These verses describe work done on the walls and gates on the western side of Jerusalem. Even people from outside the city and people having wealth or more delicate occupations participated. 3:6 The Old City Gate: The oldest part of Jerusalem sat on an eastern hill that ran north to the Temple Mount.”

“Neh 12:39 Nehemiah 3:7”

“From the gate of the old wall to the valley gate. - Neh 3:6 הישׁנה שׁער does not mean the old gate, for הישׁנה is genitive. Schultz (Jerus. p. 90), Thenius, and Bertheau supply העיר, gate of the old town, and explain the name from the fact that Bezetha, the new town, already existed as a suburb or village in front of the gate, which was named after the contrast. To this Arnold rightly objects (in Herzog's Realencycl. xviii. p. 628) that it is by no means proved that there was at that time any contrast between the old and new towns, and as well as Hupfeld (die topograph. Streitfragen ber Jerus., in the morgenl. Zeitschrift, xv. p. 231) supplies חומה: gate of the old wall. He does not,…”