2 Chronicles 25:23

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at Bethshemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.

Took amaziah

Luke 14:11

Gate of ephraim

Nehemiah 8:16

Nehemiah 12:39

Corner gate

2 Chronicles 26:9

Jeremiah 31:38

Bible References

Took amaziah

So He brought against them the military commanders of the king of Assyria. They captured Manasseh with hooks, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.

Now Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon attacked him and bound him in bronze shackles to take him to Babylon.

Pride comes before destruction,
and an arrogant spirit before a fall.

A person’s pride will humble him,
but a humble spirit will gain honor.

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise, exalt, and glorify the King of heaven, because all His works are true and His ways are just. He is able to humble those who walk in pride.

Your presumptuous heart has deceived you,
you who live in clefts of the rock

in your home on the heights,
who say to yourself,
“Who can bring me down to the ground?”

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Gate of ephraim

The people went out, brought back branches, and made booths for themselves on each of their rooftops, and courtyards, the court of the house of God, the square by the Water Gate, and the square by the Gate of Ephraim.

above the Gate of Ephraim, and by the Old Gate, the Fish Gate, the Tower of Hananel, and the Tower of the Hundred, to the Sheep Gate. They stopped at the Gate of the Guard.

Corner gate

Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate, the Valley Gate, and the corner buttress, and he fortified them.

“Look, the days are coming”—the Lord’s declaration—“when the city from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate will be rebuilt for the Lord.