23 Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Ahaziah,[a] at Beth Shemesh. Then Jehoash brought him to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate(A) to the Corner Gate(B)—a section about four hundred cubits[b] long.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 25:23 Hebrew Jehoahaz, a variant of Ahaziah
  2. 2 Chronicles 25:23 That is, about 600 feet or about 180 meters

10 You counted the buildings in Jerusalem
    and tore down houses(A) to strengthen the wall.(B)

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24 After Pharaoh’s daughter(A) had come up from the City of David to the palace Solomon had built for her, he constructed the terraces.(B)

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He built up the city around it, from the terraces[a](A) to the surrounding wall, while Joab restored the rest of the city.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 11:8 Or the Millo

The Lord stripped away the defenses of Judah,
    and you looked in that day(A)
    to the weapons(B) in the Palace of the Forest.(C)

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