2 Chronicles 32:5

Also he strengthened himself. — And he took courage. (2 Chronicles 15:8; 2 Chronicles 18:1.)

Built up all the wall that was broken. — Isaiah 22:9, where “many breaches” are spoken of, and it is said that “houses were pulled down to fortify the wall.”

Raised it up to the towers. — Heb., and went up on the towers, or, and caused to go up on the towers. A different division of the Hebrew letters will give the sense “and raised upon it towers,” which is probably correct. Thenius prefers to keep the ordinary reading, which he understands to mean, and heightened the towers; alleging that 2 Chronicles 26:9 shows that the wall was already furnished with towers. The LXX. has simply καί πύργους, “and towers;” the Vulgate, “et exstruxit turres desuper.” The Syriac renders, “Let them show themselves strong, and make another wall opposite the wall, and let them stop up the ditch which David made.”

Another wall without. — Literally, and on the outside of the wall (he built) another — viz., the wall enclosing the lower city or Aera, which he “built,” that is, repaired and strengthened. (See Isaiah 22:11, “the two walls.”)

Repaired. — 2 Chronicles 11:11.

Millo. — The rampart. See Note on 1 Chronicles 11:8.

In the city of David. — To wit, the city of David.

Darts. — Shelah. See Note on 2 Chronicles 23:10, and comp. 2 Chronicles 26:14. The Hebrew is “missiles in abundance, and shields.”