Jerusalem Explored - Part 49
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Part 49

"And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire."

ii. 13. (pp. 27, 286.)

[Sidenote: Gate of the fountain. King's pool.]

"Then I went on to the gate of the fountain, and to the king's pool: but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pa.s.s." ii. 14. (p.

286.)

[Sidenote: The sheep gate. Tower Meah. Tower Hananeel.]

"Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they builded the sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even unto the tower of Meah they sanctified it, unto the tower of Hananeel." iii. 1. (p. 27.)

[Sidenote: Fish gate.]

"But the fish gate did the sons of Ha.s.senaah build." iii. 3. (p. 27.)

[Sidenote: Old gate repaired.]

"Moreover the old gate repaired Jehoiada the son of Paseah, and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah." iii. 6. (p. 27.)

[Sidenote: The broad wall.]

"... and they fortified Jerusalem unto the broad wall." iii. 8. (p. 27.)

[Sidenote: Tower of the furnaces.]

"... repaired the other piece, and the tower of the furnaces." iii. 11.

(p. 27.)

[Sidenote: The valley gate. The dung gate.]

"The valley gate repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of Zanoah; they built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and a thousand cubits on the wall unto the dung gate." iii. 13.

(pp. 27, 286.)

[Sidenote: The dung gate.]

"But the dung gate repaired Malchiah." iii. 14. (p. 27.)

[Sidenote: Gate of the fountain. Pool of Siloah. King's garden. The stairs, &c.]

"But the gate of the fountain repaired Shallun ... he built it ... and the wall of the pool of Siloah by the king's garden, and unto the stairs that go down from the city of David." iii. 15. (pp. 27, 185, 210.)

[Sidenote: Sepulchres of David. Pool that was made.]

"After him repaired Nehemiah ... unto the place over against the sepulchres of David, and to the pool that was made." iii. 16. (pp. 27, 210.)

[Sidenote: Ophel. The water gate.]

"Moreover the Nethinims dwelt in Ophel, unto the place over against the water gate toward the east, and the tower that lieth out." iii. 26. (p.

27.)

[Sidenote: Wall of Ophel.]

"After them the Tekoites repaired another piece, over against the great tower that lieth out, even unto the wall of Ophel." iii. 27. (p. 27.)

[Sidenote: The east gate.]

"... After him repaired also Shemaiah the son of Shechaniah, the keeper of the east gate." iii. 29. (p. 27.)

[Sidenote: Building of the wall.]

"They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon." iv. 17. (p. 285.)

[Sidenote: Building of the wall.]

"For the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and so builded. And he that sounded the trumpet was by me." iv. 18. (p. 285.)

[Sidenote: Wall finished.]

"So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days." vi. 15. (p. 285.)

[Sidenote: Plain country round about Jerusalem.]

"And the sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain country round about Jerusalem, and from the villages of Netophathi." xii. 28. (p. 43.)

[Sidenote: Villages round about Jerusalem.]

"Also from the house of Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singers had builded them villages round about Jerusalem." xii. 29. (p. 43.)

[Sidenote: Dung gate.]

"Then I brought up the princes of Judah upon the wall, and appointed two great companies of them that gave thanks, whereof one went on the right hand upon the wall toward the dung gate." xii. 31. (p. 27.)

[Sidenote: Fountain and Water gates, Stairs, &c.]

"And at the fountain gate, which was over against them, they went up by the stairs of the city of David, at the going up of the wall, above the house of David, even unto the water gate eastward." xii. 37. (p. 27.)

[Sidenote: Tower of the furnaces. Broad wall.]

"And the other company of them that gave thanks went over against them, and I after them, and the half of the people upon the wall, from beyond the tower of the furnaces even unto the broad wall." xii. 38. (p. 27.)

[Sidenote: Gates, and Tower of Hananeel.]

"And from above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old gate, and above the fish gate, and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Meah, even unto the sheep gate: and they stood still in the prison gate." xii. 39.

(pp. 27, 144, 286.)

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