( הגּיא שער , sha‛ar ha - gay' , "Gate of the Gai"): Is placed ( Nehemiah 3:13 ) between the "tower of the furnaces" and the "dung gate"; from here Nehemiah (Nehemiah 2:13 ) set out on his ride down the "Gai" (Hinnom) to Siloam, and, too (Nehemiah 12:31 , Nehemiah 12:38 ), from here the Levites commenced their compass of the city in two directions. It must have been an ancient gate, for Uzziah added towers to it (2 Chronicles 26:9 ). It was probably near the Southwest corner of the city and near to, if not identical with, the gate found by Bliss near (now in) the Protestant Cemetery. See JERUSALEM , VI, 13.
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