Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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.
He built
Fish gate
General references
Bible References
He built
2 Chronicles 32:5
Also Hezekiah resolutely set to work and rebuilt all the wall that had been broken down, and erected towers on it, and he built another wall outside and strengthened the Millo (fortification) in the City of David, and made a great number of weapons and shields.
Gihon
2 Chronicles 32:30
This same Hezekiah also stopped up the upper outlet of the waters of Gihon and channeled them down to the west side of the City of David. Hezekiah succeeded in everything that he did.
1 Kings 1:33
The king told them, “Take the servants of your lord with you and have Solomon my son ride on my own mule, and bring him down to [the spring at] Gihon [in the Kidron Valley].
Fish gate
Nehemiah 3:3
Now the sons of Hassenaah built the Fish Gate; they laid its beams and set up its doors with its bolts and its bars.
Nehemiah 12:39
and above the Gate of Ephraim, and by the Old Gate, by the Fish Gate, by 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.
Zephaniah 1:10
“On that day,” declares the Lord,
“There will be the sound of crying from the Fish (Damascus) Gate [in the northern wall of Jerusalem where invaders enter]
And wailing from theSecond Quarter [of the city],
And a loud crash from the hills.
“On that day,” declares the Lord,
“There will be the sound of crying from the Fish (Damascus) Gate [in the northern wall of Jerusalem where invaders enter]
And wailing from the
And a loud crash from the hills.
Ophel
2 Chronicles 27:3
He built the upper gate of the house of the Lord, and did extensive building on the wall of Ophel.
Nehemiah 3:26
The temple servants were living in Ophel [the hill south of the temple], and they made repairs as far as the front of the Water Gate on the east and the projecting tower.
Put
2 Chronicles 11:11
He strengthened the fortresses and put officers in them, with supplies of food, [olive] oil, and wine.
2 Chronicles 17:19
These are the ones who were in the service of the king, besides those he had placed in fortified cities throughout Judah.
General references
Job 12:18
“He loosens the bond of kings
And binds their loins with a loincloth.
“He loosens the bond of kings
And binds their loins with a loincloth.