Now after this, he built an outer wall to David’s city, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate. He encircled Ophel with it, and raised it up to a very great height; and he put valiant captains in all the fortified cities of Judah.
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Now after this, he built an outer wall to David’s city, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate. He encircled Ophel with it, and raised it up to a very great height; and he put valiant captains in all the fortified cities of Judah.
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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.
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Now after this he built an outer wall to the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate; and he compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height; and he put captains of the army in all the fortified cities of Judah.
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Passages linked to 2 Chronicles 33:14 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 1 Kings 1:33 The king said to them, “Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride on my own mule, and bring him down to Gihon.
- 2 Chronicles 27:3 He built the upper gate of Yahweh’s house, and he built much on the wall of Ophel.
- Nehemiah 3:3 The sons of Hassenaah built the fish gate. They laid its beams, and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars.
- Nehemiah 12:39 and above the gate of Ephraim, and by the old gate, and by the fish gate, and the tower of Hananel, and the tower of Hammeah, even to the sheep gate: and they stood still in the gate of the guard.
- Zephaniah 1:10 In that day, says Yahweh, there will be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, a wailing from the second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills.
- 1 Kings 1:45 Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon. They have come up from there rejoicing, so that the city rang again. This is the noise that you have heard.
- 2 Chronicles 11:11-12 He fortified the strongholds, and put captains in them, and stores of food, oil and wine. He put shields and spears in every city, and made them exceedingly strong. Judah and Benjamin belonged to him.
- 2 Chronicles 17:19 These were those who waited on the king, in addition to those whom the king put in the fortified cities throughout all Judah.
- 2 Chronicles 32:5 He took courage, built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised it up to the towers, with the other wall outside, and strengthened Millo in David’s city, and made weapons and shields in abundance.
- 2 Chronicles 32:30 This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper spring of the waters of Gihon, and brought them straight down on the west side of David’s city. Hezekiah prospered in all his works.
- Nehemiah 3:26-27 (Now the temple servants lived in Ophel, to the place opposite the water gate toward the east, and the tower that stands out.) After him the Tekoites repaired another portion, opposite the great tower that stands out, and to the wall of Ophel.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Read 2 Chron. 32:30.
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Read 2 Chron. 27:3.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Ch 33:14 Now after this he built a wall…
2Ch 33:14 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.
Ver. 14. Now after this he built a wall.] It is uncertain how he got out of prison; whether with the king of Babylon’s good leave, or by making escape. There are that tell us, that the prison doors were opened, his chains loosened, and he delivered, as afterwards Peter was. {Act 12:3-11} Howsoever, he thought good to fortify himself against the Babylonians, and whatsoever enemies. This, though it be here set down first, yet Josephus saith, that the first work he did after his return, was to reform religion.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain He built a wall; he repaired and strengthened that…
He built a wall; he repaired and strengthened that wall which Hezekiah had built, 2Ch 32:5, and which possibly the king of Assyria, when he last took Jerusalem, had caused to be thrown down, either wholly or in part.
On the west side of Gihon; on the west side of the city of David, to which Hezekiah had brought this water-course down, 2Ch 32:30, into the great pool which he had made to receive it; and possibly this wall was built to secure the free use of it to the citizens when they should be distressed or besieged by an enemy.
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Compassed about Ophel with a wall. Of Ophel see before, 2Ch 27:3.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And he took away the strange gods, and the…
And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the Lord,.... Which he had set there, Ch2 33:7.
and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the Lord, and in Jerusalem; see Ch2 33:4,
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and cast them out of the city; perhaps into the brook Kidron; all this he did to show the sincerity of his repentance for his idolatry, and his abhorrence of it.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 14. He built a wall] This was probably…
Verse 14. He built a wall] This was probably a weak place that he fortified; or a part of the wall which the Assyrians had broken down, which he now rebuilt.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain 2Ch 33:14. After this he built a wall without…
2Ch 33:14. After this he built a wall without the city of David — He repaired and strengthened that wall which Hezekiah had built, (2Ch 32:5,) and which, possibly, the king of Assyria, or of Babylon rather, when he last took Jerusalem, had caused to be thrown down, either wholly or in part. On the west side of Gihon — On the west side of the city of David, to which Hezekiah had brought the watercourse down, mentioned 2Ch 32:30, into the great pool which he had made to receive it: and possibly this wall was built to secure the free use of it to the citizens, when they should be distressed or besieged by an enemy.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Rather, “he built the outer wall of the city…
Rather, “he built the outer wall of the city of David on the west of Gihon-in-the-valley.” The wall intended seems to have been that toward the northeast, which ran from the vicinity of the modern Damascus gate across the valley of Gihon, to the “fish-gate” at the northeast corner of the “city of David.”
We may gather from this verse that, late in his reign, Manasseh revolted from the Assyrians, and made preparations to resist them if they should attack him. Assyria began to decline in power about 647 B.C., and from that time her outlying provinces would naturally begin to fall off. Manasseh reigned until 642 B.C.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Without, including what is styled the second city; (4…
Without, including what is styled the second city; (4 K. xxii. 14,) or he perfected the works begun by his father, or repaired the wall which the Assyrians had thrown down, though we read not of their taking the city. C. --- Fish-gate....to Ophel, from the north-eastern corner, to the place opposite to the eastern gate of the temple, C. xxvii. 3. M. --- The fish-gate led towards Joppe, whence the city was supplied with fish. S. Jerom, Trad. --- It was also called David’s gate, because it stood near this city. By it, the Chaldeans afterwards rushed in, Sophonias i. 10. T.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain he built a wall without the city . .…
he built a wall without the city . . . on the west side of Gihon . . . even to the entering in at the fish gate--"The well-ascertained position of the fish gate, shows that the valley of Gihon could be no other than that leading northwest of Damascus gate, and gently descending southward, uniting with the Tyropœon at the northeast corner of Mount Zion, where the latter turns at right angles and runs towards Siloam. The wall thus built by Manasseh on the west side of the valley of Gihon, would extend from the vicinity of the northeast corner of the wall of Zion in a northerly direction, until it crossed over the valley to form a junction with the outer wall at the trench of Antonia, precisely in the quarter where the temple would be most easily assailed" [BARCLAY].
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 14. He built a wall without the city of…
14. He built a wall without the city of David — A wall on the north side of the city, (as we infer from the description that follows,) where besieging armies pitched their camps, and where, accordingly, there was need of the strongest possible fortifications. Whether this was a new wall, first built by Manasseh, or the repair and strengthening of an older one, cannot be positively determined, but the expression built a wall, points rather to the erection of a new wall.
On the west side of Gihon — Rather, westward to Gihon, in the valley. The description seems to begin from the centre of the northern wall, and pass first westward to the valley, (either of Gihon, which was the northern part of the Hinnom valley, or of that branch of the Tyropoeon which begins near the modern Yaffa gate,) and then eastward even to the entering in at the fish gate, which was near the northeast corner of the ancient city. Neh_3:3, note.
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Compassed about Ophel — The southern slope of Moriah, on whose wall Jotham had “built much.” See note on 2Ch_27:8. Manasseh strengthened and completed this work of his great-grandfather.
Raised it up a very great height — This wall, as exposed by modern excavations at Jerusalem, is found at present to be over seventy feet in height. “Upward of fifty shafts,” says Captain Warren, “were sunk about Ophel in search of the wall. Eight of these shafts were in connexion with the line of wall which is now found to extend as far as seven hundred feet from the first tower in a southeasterly direction along the eastern ridge of Ophel.”
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 14–17 (not in 2 Kin.). The Later Deeds of…
14–17 (not in 2 Kin.). The Later Deeds of Manasseh
14. a wall without the city] R.V. an outer wall to the city.
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even to the entering in] Or, “and [on the west] of the entering in.”
and compassed about] R.V. and he compassed about.
Ophel] Cp. 2Ch_27:3 (note).
and put captains of war] R.V. and he put valiant captains.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (14) Now after this . . . valley.—Rather, And…
(14) Now after this . . . valley.—Rather, And afterwards he built an outer wall to the city of David westward unto Gihon in the ravine. Manasseh completed the wall begun by Hezekiah (2Ch_32:5). This highly circumstantial account of the public works undertaken by Manasseh after his restoration, is utterly unlike fiction, and almost compels the assumption of a real historical source, no longer extant, from which the whole section has been derived.
Even to the entering in of the fish gate.—The fish-gate lay near the north-east corner of the lower city (Neh_3:3). The direction of the outer wall is described first westward, and then eastward.
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And compassed about Ophel.—And surrounded the Ophel (mound); seil., with the wall, which he carried on from the north-east to the south-east. Uzziah and Jotham had already worked upon these fortifications (2Ch_26:9; 2Ch_27:3). Manasseh now finished them, “raising them up to a very great height.”
Raised it—i.e., the outer wall.
And put captains of war.—(Comp. 2Ch_17:2; 2Ch_32:6.) Literally, captains of an army ( sârê chayil).
Of Judah.—Heb., in Judah. Some MSS. and the Vulgale read as the Authorised Version.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The wall without; or, Revised Version, the outer wall,…
The wall without; or, Revised Version, the outer wall, is probably one with that of Hezekiah, (2Ch_32:5) which now Manasseh repairs, or rebuilds, and perhaps lengthens as well as heightens.
The fish gate, (Neh_13:16) left on the north of Jerusalem, and opened on the main road for the sea (Conder"s "Handbook," etc., p. 343). The wall traversed the north and east sides to Ophel, "on the wall" of which, it is said, (2Ch_27:3) "Jotham built much." Hezekiah also built much there, and now Manasseh raised it up a very great height.
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Manasseh built ... He surrounded ... He took away ... he had built on the mount
Manasseh did not do the building and construction himself, rather, he commanded his workers to do it. AT: "Manasseh commanded his workers to build ... They surrounded ... He commanded his workers to take away ... they had previously built on the mount" (See: Metonymy)
Gihon
This was the name of a spring and a stream. See how you translated the "waters of Gihon" in 2 Chronicles 32:30. AT: "the waters of Gihon" (See: How to Translate Names)
the hill of Ophel
Translate the name of this hill as you did in 2 Chronicles 27:3. (See: How to Translate Names)
raised the wall up
"built the wall up"
the fortified cities
This refers to cities with walls around them.
the foreign gods
"the false gods from other countries"
translationWords
city of David
false god
altar
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 33:14-17 Manasseh might have been repairing damage done to…
33:14-17 Manasseh might have been repairing damage done to the walls when he was taken captive. His religious reforms were similar to Hezekiah’s but incomplete; Josiah later removed the Temple altars that Manasseh built (2 Kgs 23:12).
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