Rebuilding the Walls

3 The high priest Eliashib^(A) and his fellow priests began rebuilding the Sheep Gate.^(B) They dedicated it and installed its doors. After building the wall to the Tower of the Hundred and the Tower of Hananel,^(C) they dedicated it.

³⁹ above the Ephraim Gate,^(A) and by the Old Gate,^(B) the Fish Gate,^(C) the Tower of Hananel, and the Tower of the Hundred, to the Sheep Gate.^(D) They stopped at the Gate of the Guard.^(E)

³⁸ ‘Look, the days are coming’ – the Lord’s declaration – ‘when the city^[a] from the Tower of Hananel^(A) to the Corner Gate^(B) will be rebuilt for the Lord. ³⁹ A measuring line will once again stretch out straight to the hill of Gareb^(C) and then turn towards Goah. ⁴⁰ The whole valley – the corpses, the ashes, and all the fields as far as the Kidron Valley^(D) to the corner of the Horse Gate^(E) to the east – will be holy to the Lord. It will never be uprooted or demolished again.’