He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.
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Gill's Exposition
Moreover, he built cities in the mountains of Judah,.... In the mountainous part of it, the hill country of Judea, Luk 1:65,
and in the forests he built castles and towers; for the safety of…
Barnes' Notes
Ophel was the name given to the long, narrowish, rounded spur or promontory, which intervenes between the central valley of Jerusalem (the Tyropoeon) and the Kidron, or valley of Jehoshaphat. The…
Adam Clarke
On the wall of Ophel - The wall, says the Targum, of the interior palace. Ophel was some part of the wall of Jerusalem, that was most pregnable, and therefore Jotham fortified it in a particular…
There is not much more related here concerning Jotham than we had before, Kg2 15:32, etc.
I. He reigned well. He did that which was right in the sight of the Lord; the course of his reign was good,…
Cambridge Bible
the high gate R.V. the upper gate; cp. 2Ch 23:20.
Ophel Cp. 2Ch 33:14; Neh 3:26-27. It was a southern spur of the Temple Hill. Bädeker, p. 21.
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