2 Chronicles 23:5

23:5 Another third of you will be stationed at the royal palace and still another third at the Foundation Gate. All the others will stand in the courtyards of the Lord’s temple.

2 Chronicles 23:15

23:15 They seized her and took her into the precincts of the royal palace through the horses’ entrance. There they executed her.

2 Chronicles 23:19

23:19 He posted guards at the gates of the Lord’s temple, so no one who was ceremonially unclean in any way could enter.

2 Chronicles 24:8

24:8 The king ordered a chest to be made and placed outside the gate of the Lord’s temple.

2 Chronicles 27:3

27:3 He built the Upper Gate to the Lord’s temple and did a lot of work on the wall in the area known as Ophel.


tn Heb “all the people.”

tn Heb “and they placed hands on her, and she went through the entrance of the gate of the horses [into] the house of the king.” Some English versions treat the phrase “gate of the horses” as the name of the gate (“the Horse Gate”; e.g., NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).

tn Heb “and the king said [it] and they made a chest and placed it in the gate of the house of the Lord outside.”

tn Heb “wall of Ophel.” See HALOT 861 s.v. II עֹפֶל.