2nd Chronicles Chapter 27 verse 3 Holy Bible
He built the upper gate of the house of Jehovah, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.
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He put up the higher doorway of the house of the Lord, and did much building on the wall of the Ophel.
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It was he who built the upper gate of the house of Jehovah, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.
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He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.
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He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.
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He built the upper gate of the house of Yahweh, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.
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He hath built the upper gate of the house of Jehovah, and in the wall of Ophel he hath built abundantly;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 3. - The high gate. In the parallel, rendered in the Authorized Version the "higher" gate, the Hebrew (חָעֶלְיון) being the same in both places. The Revised Version shows "upper gate" in both places. It was probably the gate which led from the palace to the temple's outer court (see 2 Chronicles 23:20, and note there). On the wall of Ophel; Hebrew, הָעפֶל; i.e. the ophel, which may be Englished "the swelling ground." It was the extreme south end of the spur which gradually narrowed southward, and which was the continuation of the Bezetha hill, bounded by the brook Kedron on the east, and the Tyropceon on the west. This extreme south part called the Ophel sank into the bounding valleys to the Kedron precipitously and to the Tyropeon gradually. Pp. 328-335 of Condor's 'Handbook' (2nd edit.), and specially pp. 332-334, well repay a thorough study. A ditch was cut across the narrowest part of the ridge, which separated the temple hill itself from the Bezetha hill. In these parts fortifications were built, and no doubt to such it is our text calls attention.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(3) He built.--He it was that built (pronoun emphatic). He "built," i.e., restored and beautified. The same statement occurs in 2Kings 15:35.The high gate.--Rather, the upper gate; i.e., the northern gate of the inner or upper court (Ezekiel 9:2). The north being the holy quarter (Isaiah 14:13; Psalm 48:2), the north gate would be the principal entrance.And on the wall of Ophel he built much.--The southern slope of the Temple hill was called the Ophel, i.e., "the mound." Its wall would be the line of fortifications connecting Zion with Moriah, on which Uzziah had already laboured (2Chronicles 26:9), with the same object of securing the city against attacks from the south and east. Neither this detail nor the next three verses are found in the parallel account. The style and contents of the passage indicate a good ancient source. . . .
