After him repaired Binnui the son of Henadad, another piece….. Beginning where Azariah ended:

unto the turning of the wall, even unto the corner; the corner where the wall turned from the south to the east.

Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

Next repaired Binnui the son of Henadad, a second portion from the house of Azariah, to the angle and to the corner; and further on (Neh 3:25) Palal the son of Uzzai, from opposite the angle and the high tower which stands out from the king’s house by the court of the prison. We join to , though it is also verbally admissible to combine it with , “the tower which stands out from the king’s upper house,” because nothing is known of an upper and lower king’s house. It would be more natural to assume (with Bertheau) that there was an upper and a lower tower at the court of the prison, but this is not implied by . The word means first, high, elevated, and its use does not assume the existence of a lower tower; while the circumstance that the same tower is in Neh 3:27 called the great ( ) tells in favour of the meaning high in the present case. The court of the prison was, according to Jer 32:2, in or near the king’s house; it is also mentioned Jer 32:8, Jer 32:12; Jer 33:1; Jer 37:21; Jer 38:6, Jer 38:13, Jer 38:28, and Jer 39:14. But from none of these passages can it be inferred, as by Bertheau, that it was situate in the neighbourhood of the temple. His further remark, too, that the king’s house is not the royal palace in the city of David, but an official edifice standing upon or near the temple area, and including the court of the prison with its towers, is entirely without foundation.

(Note: Equally devoid of proof is the view of Ewald, Diestel (in Herzog’s Realencycl. xiii. p. 325), Arnold, and others, that the royal palace stood upon Moriah or Ophel on the south side of the temple, in support of which Diestel adduces Neh 3:25. See the refutation of this view in the commentary on 1Ki 7:12 (Note).)

The royal palace lay, according to Josephus, Ant. viii. 5. 2, opposite the temple ( ), i.e., on the north-eastern side of Zion, and this is quite in accordance with the statements of this verse; for as it is not till Neh 3:27 that the description of the wall-building reaches the walls of Ophel, all the localities and buildings spoken of in Neh 3:24-27 must be sought for on the east side of Zion. The court of the prison formed, according to Eastern custom, part of the royal fortress upon Zion. The citadel had, moreover, a high tower. This is obvious from Son 4:4, though the tower of David there mentioned, on which hung a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men, may not be identical with the tower of the king’s house in this passage; from Mic 4:8, where the tower of the flock, the stronghold of the daughter of Zion, is the tower of the royal citadel; and from Isa 32:14, where citadel and tower ( , properly watch-tower) answer to the of the royal citadel, which lay with its forts upon the hill of Zion. This high tower of the king’s house, i.e., of the royal citadel, stood, according to our verses, in the immediate neighbourhood of the angle and the corner ( ); for the section of wall which reached to the lay opposite the angle and the high tower of the king’s house. The wall here evidently formed a corner, running no longer from south to north, but turning eastwards, and passing over Ophel, the southern spur of Moriah. A length from this corner onwards was built by Pedaiah the son of Parosh; comp. Ezr 2:3.

Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament

(24) Unto the corner.The north-eastern angle of the city of David.

Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)

24. The turning the corner These points seem to have belonged either to the wall of the temple enclosure, or to that which separated the upper from the lower city; but all attempts to locate them precisely must be purely conjectural.

Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

After him repaired Binnui the son of Henadad another portion, from the house of Azariah to the turning (of the wall), and to the corner.’

Binnui the son of Henadad (and brother of Bavvai – Neh 3:18) repaired the part of the wall between the end of the house of Azariah to the next angle in the wall and then on to the corner. All this would be familiar to the early readers. Bavvai in Neh 3:18 would appear to have been his brother.

This Binnui was also a signatory to Nehemiah’s covenant (Neh 10:9) where he is revealed as a Levite. It may be his son, who as one of the two Levites selected, aided in the reception of the gold and silver for the Temple when Ezra arrived (Ezr 8:33). By now Henadad may have been dead, or too old to work on the wall. Sons of a Henadad who were Levites (Ezr 3:9), and who was presumably a forebear of this Henadad, had arrived with Zerubbabel and helped with the building of the Temple (Ezr 3:9). It was common for names to pass down in a family.

The sons of a former Binnui had arrived with Zerubbabel (Neh 7:15; compare Ezr 2:10 where he is called Bani) but they were ‘men of Israel’ not ‘Levites’. A Binnui who was of the sons of Pachath-moab had married an idolatrous foreign wife (Ezr 10:30) as had another Binnui (Ezr 10:38). Thus it was a common name among the Jews.

Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett

Neh 3:24 After him repaired Binnui the son of Henadad another piece, from the house of Azariah unto the turning [of the wall], even unto the corner.

Ver. 24. Unto the turning of the wall ] Namely, from the south side to the east; which turning came with the corner inwards into the city, according to the natural situation of the rock and the valley.

Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)

house. See note on Neh 7:4.

Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics

Binnui: Neh 10:9

another piece: That which had been left by Azariah, after he had repaired the wall by his own house. It is probable that some of the principal people were either obliged, or voluntarily offered, to repair those parts of the wall which were opposite, or adjacent, to their own houses. The names of those who repaired the walls are commemorated, because it was an undertaking of piety, virtue, and courage, to restore the holy city. Neh 3:11, Neh 3:19, Neh 3:27

the turning: Neh 3:20

Reciprocal: 2Ch 26:9 – the turning

Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge