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.

Gate of ephraim

Bible References

Took amaziah

2 Chronicles 33:11
Therefore the Lord brought the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria against them, and they captured Manasseh with hooks, bound him with bronze chains and took him to Babylon.
2 Chronicles 36:6
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against him and bound him with bronze chains to take him to Babylon.
Proverbs 16:18
Pride goes before destruction,
And a haughty spirit before stumbling.
Proverbs 29:23
A man’s pride will bring him low,
But a humble spirit will obtain honor.
Daniel 4:37
Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise, exalt and honor the King of heaven, for all His works are true and His ways just, and He is able to humble those who walk in pride.”
Obadiah 1:3
“The arrogance of your heart has deceived you,
You who live in the clefts of the rock,
In the loftiness of your dwelling place,
Who say in your heart,
Who will bring me down to earth?’
Luke 14:11
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Gate of ephraim

Nehemiah 8:16
So the people went out and brought them and made booths for themselves, each on his roof, and in their courts and in the courts of the house of God, and in the square at the Water Gate and in the square at the Gate of Ephraim.
Nehemiah 12:39
and above the Gate of Ephraim, by the Old Gate, by the Fish Gate, the Tower of Hananel and the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the Sheep Gate; and they stopped at the Gate of the Guard.

Corner gate

2 Chronicles 26:9
Moreover, Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate and at the Valley Gate and at the corner buttress and fortified them.
Jeremiah 31:38
“Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when the city will be rebuilt for the Lord from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate.

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