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    Judah was left defenseless.

At that time you trusted in the weapons you had stored in Forest Palace.[a] You saw the holes in the outer wall of Jerusalem, and you brought water from the lower pool.[b] 10 You counted the houses in Jerusalem and tore down some of them, so you could get stones to repair the city wall.

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Footnotes

  1. 22.8 Forest Palace: Built by Solomon (1 Kings 7.2) and used as a place for storing weapons.
  2. 22.9 the lower pool: Mentioned only here; probably in the southern part of the Central Valley (Tyropoean Valley) of Jerusalem.

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