dung gate

AI summary: The Dung Gate shows how practical and unglamorous parts of the city still mattered deeply in the work of restoration. Nehemiah names it in his night inspection, in the repair lists, and again in the dedication procession, which means it belonged to both the labor of rebuilding and the joy of completion. Its position near the valley of refuse also ties it to the lived realities of urban maintenance. The cross references present the Dung Gate as a humble but essential point in Jerusalem's restored wall.¹

(Neh. 2:13), a gate of ancient Jerusalem, on the south-west quarter. “The gate outside of which lay the piles of sweepings and offscourings of the streets,” in the valley of Tophet. ³