2 Chronicles 25:23 - Exposition

Joash … took ; Hebrew, תָּפַּשׂ , "seized" (as Genesis 39:12 ), or "caught up" (as Deuteronomy 9:17 ), or "capture" (as Joshua 8:8 ). The gate of Ephraim . It led out on the north or north-west side of the city. There is very little to identify it with the high gate of Benjamin. The corner gate. This is not the translation of our Hebrew text, but of the Hebrew text of the parallel ( חַפִנָּה ); see pp. 343-346 of Conder's 'Handbook to the Bible,' and map facing p. 334, 2nd edit. Four hundred cubits. Probably about a hundred and eighty yards.