2 Chronicles 27:3

3 He built the upper gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of `Ofel he built much.

2 Chronicles 27:3 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 27:3

He built the high gate in the house of the Lord
See the note on ( 2 Kings 15:35 )

and on the wall of Ophel he built much;
which Kimchi interprets an high place; it was the eastern part of Mount Zion. Josephus ^F6 calls it Ophlas, and says it joined to the eastern porch of the temple; and some have thought the porch of the temple is meant; the Targum renders it a palace; it is a tradition of the Jews that it was the holy of holies ^F7.

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FOOTNOTES:

F6 De Bell. Jud. l. 5. c. 4. sect. 2.
F7 Vid. Hieron Trad. Heb. in lib. Paralipom. fol. 86. A. F. G.

2 Chronicles 27:3 In-Context

1 Yotam was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Yerushalayim: and his mother's name was Yerusha the daughter of Tzadok.

2 He did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that his father `Uzziyah had done: however he didn't enter into the temple of the LORD. The people did yet corruptly.

3 He built the upper gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of `Ofel he built much.

4 Moreover he built cities in the hill-country of Yehudah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.

5 He fought also with the king of the children of `Ammon, and prevailed against them. The children of `Ammon gave him the same year one hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of `Ammon render to him, in the second year also, and in the third.