Over against them, to wit, on the other side of the city, northward and eastward. The broad wall; which they made thicker and stronger than the rest of the wall, for some special reason.
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Nehemiah 12:38
38 And the other company of them that gave thanks went over against them, and I after them, and the half of the people upon the wall, from beyond the tower of the furnaces even unto the broad wall;