¹⁴ Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.

³² In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me: