Nehemiah 3:13-14
the valley gate.2:13Zanoah.There were two towns of the name of Zanoah in the tribe of Judah: see the parallel passages. 11:30; Jos 15:34,56; 1Ch 4:18 the dung gate.2:13; 12:31the ruler.9,12,15-18Beth-haccerem.Beth-haccerem was a town of Judah, situated on a mountain, between Jerusalem and Tekoa, according to Jerome on Jer. ch. 6. Dr. Pococke conjectures that the Mountain of the Franks, called also the Mount of Bethulia, from a village of that name near it, west-north-west of Tekoa, is the ancient Beth-haccerem; the position of which seems to agree with the citadel of Herodium, built by Herod, on a moderate-sized hill, sixty furlongs from Jerusalem. Jer 6:1Nehemiah 12:31
the princes.1Ch 13:1; 28:1; 2Ch 5:2two great.38,40dung gate.2:13; 3:13,14
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