26:9 Uzziah built and fortified towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate, Valley Gate, and at the Angle. 1
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. 5
32:6 He appointed military officers over the army 12 and assembled them in the square at the city gate. He encouraged them, 13 saying,
6:28 “The time will come when the land suffers from a famine, a plague, blight, and disease, or a locust 14 invasion, or when their enemy lays siege to the cities of the land, 15 or when some other type of plague or epidemic occurs.
18:9 Now the king of Israel and King Jehoshaphat of Judah were sitting on their respective thrones, dressed in their royal robes, at the threshing floor at 16 the entrance of the gate of Samaria. All the prophets were prophesying before them.
31:2 Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and Levites to do their assigned tasks 18 – to offer burnt sacrifices and present offerings and to serve, give thanks, and offer praise in the gates of the Lord’s sanctuary. 19
33:14 After this Manasseh 20 built up the outer wall of the City of David 21 on the west side of the Gihon in the valley to the entrance of the Fish Gate and all around the terrace; he made it much higher. He placed army officers in all the fortified cities in Judah.
1 tn On the meaning of the Hebrew word מִקְצוֹעַ (miqtsoa’), see HALOT 628 s.v. עַ(וֹ)מִקְצֹ. The term probably refers to an “angle” or “corner” somewhere on the eastern wall of Jerusalem.
2 tn Heb “all the people.”
3 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).
4 tn Heb “and the king said [it] and they made a chest and placed it in the gate of the house of the
5 tn Heb “wall of Ophel.” See HALOT 861 s.v. II עֹפֶל.
6 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Solomon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
7 tn Heb “and the Levites, according to their posts, to praise and to serve opposite the priests according to the matter of a day in its day.”
8 tn Heb “and the gatekeepers by their divisions for a gate and a gate.”
9 tn Heb “for so [was] the command of David the man of God.”
7 tn Heb “400 cubits.” Assuming a cubit of 18 inches (45 cm), the distance would have been about 600 feet (180 m).
8 tn Or “seer.”
9 tn Heb “and he placed officers of war over the people.”
10 tn Heb “he spoke to their heart[s].”
10 tn Actually two Hebrew words appear here, both of which are usually (but not always) taken as referring to locusts. Perhaps different stages of growth or different varieties are in view, but this is uncertain. NEB has “locusts new-sloughed or fully grown”; NASB has “locust or grasshopper”; NIV has “locusts or grasshoppers”; NRSV has “locust, or caterpillar.”
11 tn Heb “in the land, his gates.”
11 tn Heb “at,” which in this case probably means “near.”
12 tn Heb “took.”
13 tn Heb “and Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and the Levites according to their divisions, each in accordance with his service for the priests and for the Levites.”
14 tn Heb “in the gates of the encampments of the
14 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Manasseh) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
15 sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.