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Tower of the furnaces

Historical dictionary entry

(Neh. 3:11; 12:38), a tower at the north-western angle of the second wall of Jerusalem. It was probably so named from its contiguity to the “bakers’ street” (Jer. 37:21).

Scripture references

Nehemiah 3:11Nehemiah 12:38Jeremiah 37:21

Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.

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