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2 Chronicles 27:3

Ophel

1 Jotham was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok.

2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he entered not into the temple of the LORD. And the people did yet corruptly.

He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.

4 Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.

5 He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year an hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon pay unto him, both the second year, and the third.

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BSB
Jotham rebuilt the Upper Gate of the house of the LORD, and he worked extensively on the wall at the hill of Ophel.
KJV
He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.
WEB
He built the upper gate of the LORD’s house, and he built much on the wall of Ophel.
ASV
He built the upper gate of the house of Jehovah, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.
DARBY
It was he who built the upper gate of the house of Jehovah, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.
BLB
He built the Upper Gate of the house of YHWH, and in the Wall of Ophel he built extensively.
ÅB
Han bygget den øvre port til Herrens hus, og på Ofel-muren bygget han meget.
OTB
Han bygde den øvre porten til Herrens hus, og han forsterket betydelig muren i Ofel.
B1930
Han bygget den øvre port til Herrens hus, og på Ofel-muren bygget han meget.

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  • 2 Chronicles 33:14

    Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.

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  • Nehemiah 3:26–27

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

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  • 2 Chronicles 23:20

    And he took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles, and the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought down the king from the house of the LORD: and they came through the high gate into the king’s house, and set the king upon the throne of the kingdom.

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  • Jeremiah 20:2

    Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.

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