2 Chronicles 26:9 - Exposition

Built towers in Jerusalem. The excellent map, above alluded to ( 2 Chronicles 25:23 ), in Conder's 'Handbook to the Bible' (2nd edit.), facing p. 334, furnishes a very clear idea alike of these towers and of the walls of Jerusalem, as we can make them out, for Uzziah's times. For the corner gate, see our note, 2 Chronicles 25:23 . Valley gate . This is called by some the Gehenna gate. As many as three sites, reducible perhaps to two, are proposed for this gate:

And at the turning ; Hebrew, הַמִקְצוֹעַ . This word occurs eleven times, viz. twice in Exodus, four times in Nehemiah, four times in Ezekiel, and in this place, and is always rendered "corner" or" turning;" the word wanted is angle. The site of this gate cannot very certainly be pronounced upon. Perhaps the angle that marks the gate is that at the south-east corner of the temple plateau. The language of Nehemiah 3:19 is our best clue: "Next to him Ezer repaired … a piece over against the going up to the armoury at the turning. "