2 Chronicles 27:3

3 He built the upper gate of the house of the LORD and did much building on the wall of ¹Ophel.

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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.

FOOTNOTES:

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

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

2 Chronicles 27:3 In-Context

1 Jotham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jerushah the daughter of Zadok.

2 And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD according to all that his father Uzziah had done, except he did not enter the temple of the LORD. But the people still followed corrupt practices.

3 He built the upper gate of the house of the LORD and did much building on the wall of Ophel.

4 Moreover, he built cities in the hill country of Judah, and forts and towers on the wooded hills.

5 He fought with the king of the Ammonites and prevailed against them. And the Ammonites gave him that year 100 talents of silver, and 10,000 cors of wheat and 10,000 of barley. The Ammonites paid him the same amount in the second and the third years.

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1. 2 Chronicles 33:14; Nehemiah 3:26, 27; Nehemiah 11:21

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2 Chronicles 27:3 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 27:3 In-Context

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