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 the Lord sent against them the captains of the army of Assyria, who made Manasseh a prisoner and took him away in chains to Babylon.

Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came up against him, and took him away in chains to Babylon.

Pride goes before destruction, and a stiff spirit before a fall.

A man's pride will be the cause of his fall, but he who has a gentle spirit will get honour.

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, give worship and praise and honour to the King of heaven; for all his works are true and his ways are right: and those who go in pride he is able to make low.

You have been tricked by the pride of your heart, O you whose living-place is in the cracks of the rock, whose house is high up; who has said in his heart, Who will make me come down to earth?

For every man who gives himself a high place will be put down, but he who takes a low place will be lifted up.

Gate of ephraim

And the people went out and got them and made themselves tents, every one on the roof of his house, and in the open spaces and in the open squares of the house of God, and in the wide place of the water-doorway, and the wide place of the doorway of Ephraim.

And over the doorway of Ephraim and by the old door and the fish door and the tower of Hananel and the tower of Hammeah, as far as the sheep door: and at the doorway of the watchmen they came to a stop.

Corner gate

Uzziah made towers in Jerusalem, at the doorway in the angle and at the doorway in the valley and at the turn of the wall, arming them.

See, the days are coming, says the Lord, for the building of the Lord's town, from the tower of Hananel to the doorway of the angle.