3:13 Hanun and the residents of Zanoah worked on the Valley Gate. They rebuilt it and positioned its doors, its bolts, and its bars, in addition to working on fifteen hundred feet 1 of the wall as far as the Dung Gate.
8:16 So the people went out and brought these things 2 back and constructed temporary shelters for themselves, each on his roof and in his courtyard and in the courtyards of the temple 3 of God and in the plaza of the Water Gate and the plaza of the Ephraim Gate.
13:19 When the evening shadows 4 began to fall on the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I ordered 5 the doors to be closed. I further directed that they were not to be opened until after the Sabbath. I positioned 6 some of my young men at the gates so that no load could enter on the Sabbath day.
1 tn Heb “one thousand cubits.” The standard cubit in the OT is assumed by most authorities to be about eighteen inches (45 cm) long, so this section of the wall would be about fifteen hundred feet (450 m).
2 tn The words “these things” are not in the Hebrew text but have been supplied in the translation for clarity.
3 tn Heb “the house.”
3 tn Heb “the gates of Jerusalem grew dark.”
4 tn Heb “said” (so also in v. 22).
5 tn Heb “caused to stand.”