2 Chronicles 27:3
Good News Translation
It was Jotham who built the North Gate of the Temple and did extensive work on the city wall in the area of Jerusalem called Ophel.

New Revised Standard Version
He built the upper gate of the house of the LORD, and did extensive building on the wall of Ophel.

Contemporary English Version
Jotham rebuilt the Upper Gate of the temple and did a lot of work to repair the wall near Mount Ophel.

New American Bible
It was he who built the Upper Gate of the LORD’s house and did much construction on the wall of Ophel.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He built the high gate of the house of the Lord, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He built the high gate of the house of the Lord, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.

high gate

2 Chronicles 23:20 And he took the captains of hundreds, and the most valiant men, and the chiefs of the people, and all the people of the land, and they brought down the king from the house of the Lord, and brought him through the upper gate into the king's house, and set him on the royal throne.

Jeremiah 20:2 And Phassur struck Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks, that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, in the house of the Lord.

Ophel.

2 Chronicles 33:14 After this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon in the valley, from the entering in of the gate round about to Ophel, and raised it up to a great height: and he appointed captains of the army in all the fenced cities of Juda:

Nehemiah 3:26,27 And the Nathinites dwelt in Ophel, as far as over against the water gate toward the east, and the tower that stood out. . . .

Context
Jotham Reigns in Judah
2And he did that which was right before the Lord, according to all that Ozias his father had done, only that he entered not into the temple of the Lord, and the people still transgressed. 3He built the high gate of the house of the Lord, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.4Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Juda, and castles and towers in the forests.…
Cross References
2 Kings 15:35
But the high places he took not away: the people still sacrificed, and burnt incense in the high places: he built the highest gate of the house of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 33:14
After this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon in the valley, from the entering in of the gate round about to Ophel, and raised it up to a great height: and he appointed captains of the army in all the fenced cities of Juda:

Nehemiah 3:26
And the Nathinites dwelt in Ophel, as far as over against the water gate toward the east, and the tower that stood out.

2 Chronicles 27:2
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