15 Shallun the son of Col-Hozeh, leader of the district of Mizpah, repaired (A)the Fountain Gate; he built it, covered it, hung its doors with its bolts and bars, and repaired the wall of the Pool of (B)Shelah[a] by the (C)King’s Garden, as far as the stairs that go down from the City of David.

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 3:15 Or Shiloah

And He said to him, “Go, wash (A)in the pool of Siloam” (which is translated, Sent). So (B)he went and washed, and came back seeing.

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“Inasmuch as these people refused
The waters of (A)Shiloah that flow softly,
And rejoice (B)in Rezin and in Remaliah’s son;

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37 (A)By the Fountain Gate, in front of them, they went up (B)the stairs of the (C)City of David, on the stairway of the wall, beyond the house of David, as far as (D)the Water Gate eastward.

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Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them, do you think that they were worse sinners than all other men who dwelt in Jerusalem?

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14 Then I went on to the (A)Fountain Gate and to the (B)King’s Pool, but there was no room for the animal under me to pass.

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(A)Then Jeremiah went to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, to (B)Mizpah, and dwelt with him among the people who were left in the land.

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

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12 And next to him was Shallum the son of Hallohesh, leader of half the district of Jerusalem; he and his daughters made repairs.

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And next to them Rephaiah the son of Hur, leader of half the district of Jerusalem, made repairs.

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And next to them Melatiah the Gibeonite, Jadon the Meronothite, the (A)men of Gibeon and Mizpah, repaired the (B)residence[a] of the governor of the region [b]beyond the River.

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 3:7 Lit. throne
  2. Nehemiah 3:7 West of the Euphrates

30 (A)This same Hezekiah also stopped the water outlet of Upper Gihon, and [a]brought the water by tunnel to the west side of the City of David. Hezekiah (B)prospered in all his works.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 32:30 Lit. brought it straight to (cf. 2 Kin. 20:20)

Then (A)the city wall was broken through, and all the men of war fled at night by way of the gate between two walls, which was by the king’s garden, even though the Chaldeans were still encamped all around against the city. And (B)the king[a] went by way of the [b]plain.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 25:4 Lit. he
  2. 2 Kings 25:4 Or Arabah, the Jordan Valley

The Conquest of Jerusalem(A)

(B)And the king and his men went to Jerusalem against (C)the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who spoke to David, saying, “You shall not come in here; but the blind and the lame will repel you,” thinking, “David cannot come in here.” Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion (D)(that is, the City of David).

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(Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.)

Then the children of Israel said, “Tell us, how did this wicked deed happen?”

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Israel’s War with the Benjamites

20 So (A)all the children of Israel came out, from (B)Dan to (C)Beersheba, as well as from the land of Gilead, and the congregation gathered together as one man before the Lord (D)at Mizpah.

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