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Lexicon :: Strong's H2346 - ḥômâ

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חוֹמָה
Transliteration
ḥômâ
Pronunciation
kho-maw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Act. participle of an unused root apparently meaning to join
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 674c

Strong’s Definitions

חוֹמָה chôwmâh, kho-maw'; feminine active participle of an unused root apparently meaning to join; a wall of protection:—wall, walled.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 133x

The KJV translates Strong's H2346 in the following manner: wall (131x), walled (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 133x
The KJV translates Strong's H2346 in the following manner: wall (131x), walled (2x).

  1. wall

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חוֹמָה chôwmâh, kho-maw'; feminine active participle of an unused root apparently meaning to join; a wall of protection:—wall, walled.
STRONGS H2346: Abbreviations
חוֺמָה 133 noun feminine wall (as protection; construct חמת MI21; 21) — absolute ח׳ Leviticus 25:29 + 59 times (including לְהַחוֺמָה Nehemiah 12:38); חֹמָה Exodus 14:29 + 8 times; construct חוֺמַת Joshua 6:5 + 28 times; suffix חוֺמָתָהּ Nahum 2:6; Nahum 3:8; plural, absolute חוֺמוֺת 2 Chronicles 8:5; Isaiah 26:1; חֹמוֺת Songs 5:7; construct חוֺמוֺת Psalm 51:20; חוֺמֹת 2 Kings 25:10 + 9 times; suffix חוֺמֹתַי Isaiah 56:5; חֹמֹתֶיךָ Deuteronomy 28:52; Isaiah 25:12; חוֺמוֺתַיִךְ Ezekiel 26:10, 12; Ezekiel 27:11 (twice in verse); חוֺמֹתַיִךְ Isaiah 49:16 + 2 times; חֹמֹתַיִךְ Isaiah 60:10; חֹמוֺתָ֑יִךְ Ezekiel 26:9; חוֺמוֺתֶיהָ Jeremiah 50:15; חוֺמֹתֶיהָ Psalm 55:11; Jeremiah 1:15; dual חוֺמֹתַיִם Isaiah 22:11; חֹמֹתַיִם 2 Kings 25:4 = Jeremiah 52:7; חֹמֹתָ֑יִם Jeremiah 39:4 (on form see Ol§ 113 a); —
1. usually term for wall of city Deuteronomy 28:52; Joshua 2:15; Joshua 6:5, 20 (all J E), 1 Samuel 31:10, 12; 2 Samuel 11:20, 21 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 18:26, 27 = Isaiah 36:11; Isaiah 36:12; Amos 1:7; Amos 1:10; Amos 1:14; Isaiah 2:15; Isaiah 20:10; Isaiah 20:11; Isaiah 25:12; Nahum 2:6; Nahum 3:8; Ezekiel 26:9 +, Jeremiah 1:15 +, Joel 2:7, 9; בֵּין הַחֹמֹתַיִם (of Jerusalem) i.e. between the two walls of the Ophel and the southwest hill respectively, of a reservoir Isaiah 22:11, a gate 2 Kings 25:4 = Jeremiah 34:4 = Jeremiah 52:7; symbol of Israel, Amos 7:7; 2 Chronicles 8:5; 2 Chronicles 14:6; 2 Chronicles 25:23; 26:6 (3 times in verse); Psalm 51:20 [Psalm 51:18]; Nehemiah 1:3 + 31 times in Nehemiah; חוֺמַת אֲנָךְ Amos 7:7 (literally wall of a plummet) is of doubtful meaning: a wall built plumb, or by means of a plumb-line ? We thinks unintelligible; עִיר חוֺמָה = walled city, Leviticus 25:29, עִיר אשׁר לֹא ח׳ Leviticus 25:30 (לֹא = לוֺ), opposed to הַחֲצֵרִים אשׁר אין להם ח׳ Leviticus 25:31 (all H); more elaborately גְבֹהָה דְּלָתַיִם וּבְרִ֑יחַ עָרִים בְּצֻרֹת ח׳ Deuteronomy 3:5, compare 2 Chronicles 8:5; גְּדֹלוֺת חוֺמָה וּבְרִיחַ נְחשֶׁת ע׳ 1 Kings 4:13; בְצוּרָה ח׳ Isaiah 2:15; ח singular׳ of wall of Jerusalem 1 Kings 3:1 + often; contempt. חוֺמַת אַבְנֵיהֶם Nehemiah 3:35; less often plural Nehemiah 2:13 +; of specific portions of wall הָעֹפֶל ח׳ 2 Chronicles 27:3; Nehemiah 3:27; בְּרֵבַת הַשֶּׁלַח ח׳ Nehemiah 3:15; הַח׳ הָֽרְחָבָה Nehemiah 3:8; Nehemiah 12:38; also (generally) of Babylon Jeremiah 51:58. — Men build, בנה, the ח׳ 1 Kings 9:15 +, especially (of rebuilding), Nehemiah 2:17 +; fortify it בִּצֵּר Isaiah 22:10; it is joined together קשׁר Nehemiah 3:38; is repaired עָֽלְתָה אֲרוּכָה לְח׳ Nehemiah 4:1; it falls נפל Joshua 6:5, 20; 1 Kings 20:30; Ezekiel 38:20; the enemy makes it fall הִפִּיל 2 Samuel 20:15 (preceded by מַשְׁחִית si vera lectio, see Dr); destroys it הִשְׁחִית Lamentations 2:8; שִׁהֵת Ezekiel 26:4; makes a breach in it בּ׳ פָּרַץ2 Kings 14:13 2 Chronicles 25:23, compare פרץ with accusative 2 Chronicles 26:6; Nehemiah 3:35 [Nehemiah 4:3], and וֶיִּבֶן אֶתכֿלהֿח׳ הַפְּרוּצָה 2 Chronicles 32:5; also (in simile) עִיר מְּרוּצָה ואין ח׳ Proverbs 25:28; and Punic participle מְפֹרָ֑צֶת Nehemiah 1:3; one breakes it down נָתַץ 2 Kings 25:10; 2 Chronicles 36:19; Jeremiah 39:8; Jeremiah 52:14; tears it down הָרַס Ezekiel 26:12, compare passive Jeremiah 50:15; Amos predicts that י׳ will send fire into wall (of Gaza, etc.): וְשִׁלַּחְתִּי אֵשׁ בְּח׳ Amos 1:7, 10; or kindle fire in וְהִצַּתִּי אֵשׁ בְּח׳ Amos 1:14, so Jeremiah 49:27.
2. wall of a building:
a. citadel, fortress; ארמנותיה ח׳ Lamentations 2:7.
b. surrounding new temple Ezekiel 40:5; Ezekiel 42:20.
3. figurative of waters of Red Sea Exodus 14:22, 29 (P), compare Nahum 3:8; of David's men as protectors of Nabal's shepherds 1 Samuel 25:16; of prophet as object of assault חוֺמַת נְחשֶׁת Jeremiah 1:18; נחשׁת בְּצוּרָה ח׳ Jeremiah 15:20; of strong, virtuous woman Songs 8:9, 10; of salvation, יְשׁוּעָה, as defence Isaiah 26:1 (|| חֵל); of י׳ himself ח׳ אֵשׁ Zechariah 2:9; a dangerous political scheme is called breach in נִשְׁגָּבָה ח׳ Isaiah 30:13; נִשְׂגָּבָה ח׳ in simile of wealth Proverbs 18:11 (|| קִרְיַת עֻזּוֺ); a reckless man is ח׳ אֵין פְּרוּצָה עִיר Proverbs 25:28.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

14:22; 14:29; 14:29

Leviticus

25:29; 25:29; 25:30; 25:31

Deuteronomy

3:5; 28:52; 28:52

Joshua

2:15; 6:5; 6:5; 6:5; 6:20; 6:20

1 Samuel

25:16; 31:10; 31:12

2 Samuel

11:20; 11:21; 20:15

1 Kings

3:1; 4:13; 9:15; 20:30

2 Kings

14:13; 18:26; 18:27; 25:4; 25:4; 25:10; 25:10

2 Chronicles

8:5; 8:5; 8:5; 14:6; 25:23; 25:23; 26:6; 26:6; 27:3; 32:5; 36:19

Nehemiah

1:3; 1:3; 2:13; 2:17; 3:8; 3:15; 3:27; 4:1; 4:3; 12:38; 12:38

Psalms

51:18; 55:11

Proverbs

18:11; 25:28; 25:28

Song of Songs

5:7; 8:9; 8:10

Isaiah

2:15; 2:15; 22:10; 22:11; 22:11; 25:12; 25:12; 26:1; 26:1; 30:13; 36:11; 36:12; 49:16; 56:5; 60:10

Jeremiah

1:15; 1:15; 1:18; 15:20; 34:4; 39:4; 39:8; 49:27; 50:15; 50:15; 51:58; 52:7; 52:7; 52:14

Lamentations

2:7; 2:8

Ezekiel

26:4; 26:9; 26:9; 26:10; 26:12; 26:12; 27:11; 38:20; 40:5; 42:20

Joel

2:7; 2:9

Amos

1:7; 1:7; 1:10; 1:10; 1:14; 1:14; 7:7; 7:7

Nahum

2:6; 2:6; 3:8; 3:8; 3:8

Zechariah

2:9

H2346

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Strong's Number H2346 matches the Hebrew חוֹמָה (ḥômâ),
which occurs 133 times in 123 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 3 (Exo 14:22–Neh 4:1)

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:22 - and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 14:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:29 - But the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:29 - “ ‘Anyone who sells a house in a walled city retains the right of redemption a full year after its sale. During that time the seller may redeem it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:30 - If it is not redeemed before a full year has passed, the house in the walled city shall belong permanently to the buyer and the buyer’s descendants. It is not to be returned in the Jubilee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:31 - But houses in villages without walls around them are to be considered as belonging to the open country. They can be redeemed, and they are to be returned in the Jubilee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:5 - All these cities were fortified with high walls and with gates and bars, and there were also a great many unwalled villages.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:52

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:52 - They will lay siege to all the cities throughout your land until the high fortified walls in which you trust fall down. They will besiege all the cities throughout the land the LORD your God is giving you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:15 - So she let them down by a rope through the window, for the house she lived in was part of the city wall.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:5 - When you hear them sound a long blast on the trumpets, have the whole army give a loud shout; then the wall of the city will collapse and the army will go up, everyone straight in.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:20 - When the trumpets sounded, the army shouted, and at the sound of the trumpet, when the men gave a loud shout, the wall collapsed; so everyone charged straight in, and they took the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:16 - Night and day they were a wall around us the whole time we were herding our sheep near them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 31:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:10 - They put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths and fastened his body to the wall of Beth Shan.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 31:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:12 - all their valiant men marched through the night to Beth Shan. They took down the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth Shan and went to Jabesh, where they burned them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:20 - the king’s anger may flare up, and he may ask you, ‘Why did you get so close to the city to fight? Didn’t you know they would shoot arrows from the wall?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:21 - Who killed Abimelek son of Jerub-Besheth[fn]? Didn’t a woman drop an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you get so close to the wall?’ If he asks you this, then say to him, ‘Moreover, your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:24 - Then the archers shot arrows at your servants from the wall, and some of the king’s men died. Moreover, your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:24 - While David was sitting between the inner and outer gates, the watchman went up to the roof of the gateway by the wall. As he looked out, he saw a man running alone.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 20:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:15 - All the troops with Joab came and besieged Sheba in Abel Beth Maakah. They built a siege ramp up to the city, and it stood against the outer fortifications. While they were battering the wall to bring it down,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 20:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:21 - That is not the case. A man named Sheba son of Bikri, from the hill country of Ephraim, has lifted up his hand against the king, against David. Hand over this one man, and I’ll withdraw from the city.” The woman said to Joab, “His head will be thrown to you from the wall.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 3:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:1 - Solomon made an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt and married his daughter. He brought her to the City of David until he finished building his palace and the temple of the LORD, and the wall around Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 4:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:13 - Ben-Geber—in Ramoth Gilead (the settlements of Jair son of Manasseh in Gilead were his, as well as the region of Argob in Bashan and its sixty large walled cities with bronze gate bars);

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:15 - Here is the account of the forced labor King Solomon conscripted to build the LORD’s temple, his own palace, the terraces,[fn] the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, Megiddo and Gezer.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 20:30

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:30 - The rest of them escaped to the city of Aphek, where the wall collapsed on twenty-seven thousand of them. And Ben-Hadad fled to the city and hid in an inner room.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 3:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:27 - Then he took his firstborn son, who was to succeed him as king, and offered him as a sacrifice on the city wall. The fury against Israel was great; they withdrew and returned to their own land.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 6:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:26 - As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, “Help me, my lord the king!”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 6:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:30 - When the king heard the woman’s words, he tore his robes. As he went along the wall, the people looked, and they saw that, under his robes, he had sackcloth on his body.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 14:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:13 - Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Ahaziah, at Beth Shemesh. Then Jehoash went to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate—a section about four hundred cubits long.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 18:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:26 - Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, and Shebna and Joah said to the field commander, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don’t speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 18:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:27 - But the commander replied, “Was it only to your master and you that my master sent me to say these things, and not to the people sitting on the wall—who, like you, will have to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 25:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:4 - Then the city wall was broken through, and the whole army fled at night through the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden, though the Babylonians[fn] were surrounding the city. They fled toward the Arabah,[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 25:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:10 - The whole Babylonian army under the commander of the imperial guard broke down the walls around Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 8:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:5 - He rebuilt Upper Beth Horon and Lower Beth Horon as fortified cities, with walls and with gates and bars,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 14:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:7 - “Let us build up these towns,” he said to Judah, “and put walls around them, with towers, gates and bars. The land is still ours, because we have sought the LORD our God; we sought him and he has given us rest on every side.” So they built and prospered.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:23 - Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Ahaziah,[fn] at Beth Shemesh. Then Jehoash brought him to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate—a section about four hundred cubits[fn] long.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 26:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:6 - He went to war against the Philistines and broke down the walls of Gath, Jabneh and Ashdod. He then rebuilt towns near Ashdod and elsewhere among the Philistines.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 27:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 27:3 - Jotham rebuilt the Upper Gate of the temple of the LORD and did extensive work on the wall at the hill of Ophel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 32:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:5 - Then he worked hard repairing all the broken sections of the wall and building towers on it. He built another wall outside that one and reinforced the terraces[fn] of the City of David. He also made large numbers of weapons and shields.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 32:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:18 - Then they called out in Hebrew to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to terrify them and make them afraid in order to capture the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 33:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:14 - Afterward he rebuilt the outer wall of the City of David, west of the Gihon spring in the valley, as far as the entrance of the Fish Gate and encircling the hill of Ophel; he also made it much higher. He stationed military commanders in all the fortified cities in Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 36:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:19 - They set fire to God’s temple and broke down the wall of Jerusalem; they burned all the palaces and destroyed everything of value there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:3 - They said to me, “Those who survived the exile and are back in the province are in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been burned with fire.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:8 - And may I have a letter to Asaph, keeper of the royal park, so he will give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel by the temple and for the city wall and for the residence I will occupy?” And because the gracious hand of my God was on me, the king granted my requests.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:13 - By night I went out through the Valley Gate toward the Jackal[fn] Well and the Dung Gate, examining the walls of Jerusalem, which had been broken down, and its gates, which had been destroyed by fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:15 - so I went up the valley by night, examining the wall. Finally, I turned back and reentered through the Valley Gate.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:17 - Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in: Jerusalem lies in ruins, and its gates have been burned with fire. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, and we will no longer be in disgrace.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:8 - Uzziel son of Harhaiah, one of the goldsmiths, repaired the next section; and Hananiah, one of the perfume-makers, made repairs next to that. They restored Jerusalem as far as the Broad Wall.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:13 - The Valley Gate was repaired by Hanun and the residents of Zanoah. They rebuilt it and put its doors with their bolts and bars in place. They also repaired a thousand cubits[fn] of the wall as far as the Dung Gate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:15 - The Fountain Gate was repaired by Shallun son of Kol-Hozeh, ruler of the district of Mizpah. He rebuilt it, roofing it over and putting its doors and bolts and bars in place. He also repaired the wall of the Pool of Siloam,[fn] by the King’s Garden, as far as the steps going down from the City of David.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:27 - Next to them, the men of Tekoa repaired another section, from the great projecting tower to the wall of Ophel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:1 - When Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, he became angry and was greatly incensed. He ridiculed the Jews,

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