2 Chronicles 33:14
Good News Translation
After this, Manasseh increased the height of the outer wall on the east side of David's City, from a point in the valley near Gihon Spring north to the Fish Gate and the area of the city called Ophel. He also stationed an army officer in command of a unit of troops in each of the fortified cities of Judah.

New Revised Standard Version
Afterward he built an outer wall for the city of David west of Gihon, in the valley, reaching the entrance at the Fish Gate; he carried it around Ophel, and raised it to a very great height. He also put commanders of the army in all the fortified cities in Judah.

Contemporary English Version
Later, Manasseh rebuilt the eastern section of Jerusalem's outer wall and made it taller. This section went from Gihon Valley north to Fish Gate and around the part of the city called Mount Ophel. He also assigned army officers to each of the fortified cities in Judah.

New American Bible
Afterward he built an outer wall for the City of David to the west of Gihon in the valley, extending to the Fish Gate and encircling Ophel; he built it very high. He stationed army officers in all the fortified cities of Judah.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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:

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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:

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2 Chronicles 32:5 He built up also with great diligence all the wall that had been broken down, and built towers upon it, and another wall without: and he repaired Mello in the city of David, and made all sorts of arms and shields:

Gihon

2 Chronicles 32:30 This same Ezechias was, he that stopped the upper source of the waters of Gihon, and turned them away underneath toward the west of the city of David: in all his works he did prosperously what he would.

1 Kings 1:33,45 He said to them: Take with you the servants of your lord, and set my son Solomon upon my mule: and bring him to Gihon: . . .

fish gate

Nehemiah 3:3 But the fish gate the sons of Asnaa built: they covered it, and set up the doors thereof, and the locks, and the bars. And next to them built Marimuth the son of Urias the son of Accus.

Nehemiah 12:39 And the two choirs of them that gave praise stood still at the house of God, and I and the half of the magistrates with me.

Zephaniah 1:10 And there shall be in that day, saith the Lord, the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and a howling from the Second, and a great destruction from the hills.

Ophel.

2 Chronicles 27:3 He built the high gate of the house of the Lord, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.

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. . . .

put

2 Chronicles 11:11,12 And when he had enclosed them with walls, he put in them governors and storehouses of provisions, that is, of oil and of wine. . . .

2 Chronicles 17:19 All these were at the hand of the king, beside others, whom he had put in the walled cities, in all Juda.

Context
Manasseh's Repentance and Restoration
13And he entreated him, and besought him earnestly: and he heard his prayer, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom, and Manasses knew that the Lord was God. 14After 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:15And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the Lord: the altars also which he had made in the mount of the house of the Lord, and in Jerusalem, and he cast them all out of the city.…
Cross References
1 Kings 1:33
He said to them: Take with you the servants of your lord, and set my son Solomon upon my mule: and bring him to Gihon:

2 Chronicles 27:3
He built the high gate of the house of the Lord, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.

Nehemiah 3:3
But the fish gate the sons of Asnaa built: they covered it, and set up the doors thereof, and the locks, and the bars. And next to them built Marimuth the son of Urias the son of Accus.

Zephaniah 1:10
And there shall be in that day, saith the Lord, the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and a howling from the Second, and a great destruction from the hills.

2 Chronicles 33:13
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