¹³ And I went out by night ^(A)through the Valley Gate to the Serpent Well and the ^[a]Refuse Gate, and ^[b]viewed the walls of Jerusalem which were ^(B)broken down and its gates which were burned with fire.

³ And they said to me, “The survivors who are left from the captivity in the ^(A)province are there in great distress and ^(B)reproach. ^(C)The wall of Jerusalem ^(D)is also broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.”

¹³ Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah repaired ^(A)the Valley Gate. They built it, hung its doors with its bolts and bars, and repaired a thousand cubits of the wall as far as ^(B)the Refuse Gate.

¹⁴ Malchijah the son of Rechab, leader of the district of ^(C)Beth Haccerem, repaired the Refuse Gate; he built it and hung its doors with its bolts and bars.

¹⁷ Then I said to them, “You see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lies ^[a]waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come and let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer be ^(A)a reproach.”

³ and said to the king, ^(A)“May the king live forever! Why should my face not be sad, when ^(B)the city, the place of my fathers’ tombs, lies waste, and its gates are burned with ^(C)fire?”

⁹ And Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the ^(A)Corner Gate, at the Valley Gate, and at the corner buttress of the wall; then he fortified them.

³¹ So I brought the leaders of Judah up on the wall, and appointed two large thanksgiving choirs. ^(A)One went to the right hand on the wall ^(B)toward the Refuse Gate.

¹⁵ So I went up in the night by the ^(A)valley,^[a] and ^[b]viewed the wall; then I turned back and entered by the Valley Gate, and so returned.