נחמיה, פרק ג׳, פסוק ב׳

The restoration of Jerusalem's wall was a highly organized and systematic effort, with the labor carefully divided among various groups and individuals along the city's perimeter. The general method of construction required each designated group to take responsibility for a specific section of the wall, working on it until it was completely finished. Once a segment was done, the next assigned group would begin building right where the previous one left off. This step-by-step process allowed the construction to advance continuously, link by link, until the entire structure was whole [רש״י].

Following this pattern, the builders who took up the work immediately after Eliashib and his fellow priests—who had constructed the Sheep Gate—were the men of Jericho. They built their section directly adjacent to the area their predecessors had just finished [רש״י, מצודת דוד, ביאור שטיינזלץ]. Geographically, the segment assigned to the men of Jericho was located between the Tower of Hananel and the Fish Gate [מלבי״ם]. Working right beside them was Zaccur the son of Imri, a man who likely belonged to a prominent and respected family [ביאור שטיינזלץ].

Throughout the account of the wall's reconstruction, the narrative uses various alternating phrases to describe this side-by-side progression. Rather than sticking to a single term, different expressions of adjacency are used to show how each builder or group took up the task right next to their neighbors, creating an unbroken chain of continuous labor [רש״י].