2 Chronicles 25:23

25:23 King Joash of Israel captured King Amaziah of Judah, son of Joash son of Jehoahaz, in Beth Shemesh and brought him to Jerusalem. He broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate – a distance of about six hundred feet. ¹ 

2 Chronicles 25:2

25:2 He did what the Lord approved, ²  but not with wholehearted devotion. ³ 

2 Chronicles 14:13

14:13 and Asa and his army chased them as far as Gerar. The Cushites were wiped out; ⁴  they were shattered before the Lord and his army. The men of Judah ⁵  carried off a huge amount of plunder.

Jeremiah 31:38

Jerusalem Will Be Enlarged

31:38 “Indeed a time is coming,” ⁶  says the Lord, ⁷  “when the city of Jerusalem ⁸  will be rebuilt as my special city. ⁹  It will be built from the Tower of Hananel westward to the Corner Gate. ¹⁰ 

Zechariah 14:10

14:10 All the land will change and become like the Arabah ¹¹  from Geba to Rimmon, ¹²  south of Jerusalem; and Jerusalem will be raised up and will stay in its own place from the Benjamin Gate to the site of the First Gate ¹³  and on to the Corner Gate, ¹⁴  and from the Tower of Hananel to the royal winepresses. ¹⁵ 

¹ tn Heb “400 cubits.” Assuming a cubit of 18 inches (45 cm), the distance would have been about 600 feet (180 m).

² tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the Lord.”

³ tn Heb “a complete heart.”

⁴ tn Heb “and there fell from the Cushites so that there was not to them preservation of life.”

⁵ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the men of Judah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁶ tc The words “is coming” (בָּאִים, ba’im) are not in the written text (Kethib) but are supplied in the margin (Qere), in several Hebrew mss and in the versions. It is part of the idiom that also occurs in vv. 27, 31.

⁷ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

⁸ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

⁹ tn Heb “the city will be built to [or for] the Lord.” The words “of Jerusalem” are not in the text but are implicit from the context. They have been supplied in the translation for clarity. However, the word occurs in a first person speech so the translation has accommodated the switch in person as it has in a number of other places (compare also NIV, TEV, ICV).

¹⁰ tn The word “westward” is not in the text but is supplied in the translation to give some orientation.

¹¹ tn Or “like a plain” (similar KJV, NAB, NASB, NCV, NRSV, NLT); or “like a steppe”; cf. CEV “flatlands.” The Hebrew term עֲרָבָה (’aravah) refers to an arid plain or steppe, but can be used specifically as the name of the rift valley running from the Sea of Galilee via the Jordan Valley and the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba.

¹² sn The expression from Geba to Rimmon is a way of indicating the extent of all Judah from north (2 Kgs 23:8) to south (Job 15:32; 19:7). Since Geba (Heb. גֶּבַע) means “hill” and Rimmon resembles the word for height (Heb. רָמָה, ramah), this could be a play on words suggesting that all the high country will be made low, like the great Arabah valley.

¹³ tn Or “old gate” (NLT); or “former gate” (NRSV).

¹⁴ sn From the Benjamin Gate…on to the Corner Gate marks the northern wall of the city of Jerusalem from east to west.

¹⁵ sn From the Tower of Hananel to the royal winepresses indicates the extent of Jerusalem from north to south.