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The Tower of Hananel

A tower on Jerusalem's north wall, named as one fixed end of the city's rebuilt boundary in Jeremiah's New Covenant chapter ('the city will be rebuilt for Jehovah, from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate,' 31:38) — and it recurs: Nehemiah's post-exile wall-builders repair it by name (Nehemiah 3:1, forthcoming on this shelf), and it reappears in Zechariah's vision of a widened, permanently secure Jerusalem (Zechariah 14:10, forthcoming). ⚠ Its exact position is not otherwise recoverable; three separate biblical writers, across roughly two centuries, treat it as a landmark everyone would recognize without needing it described.

in the text Jer 31:37
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