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Judah’s defenses have been stripped away.
    You run to the armory[a] for your weapons.
You inspect the breaks in the walls of Jerusalem.[b]
    You store up water in the lower pool.
10 You survey the houses and tear some down
    for stone to strengthen the walls.

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Footnotes

  1. 22:8 Hebrew to the House of the Forest; see 1 Kgs 7:2-5.
  2. 22:9 Hebrew the city of David.

The Lord stripped away the defenses of Judah,
    and you looked in that day(A)
    to the weapons(B) in the Palace of the Forest.(C)
You saw that the walls of the City of David
    were broken through(D) in many places;
you stored up water
    in the Lower Pool.(E)
10 You counted the buildings in Jerusalem
    and tore down houses(F) to strengthen the wall.(G)

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