Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
The rulers - The principal authorities of the city, in the absence of the special governor.
The rest that did the work - i. e. "the laboring class that (afterward) actually built the wall."
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Nehemiah 2:16:
Isaiah 41:25
Daniel 3:2
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