13 And I proceeded to go out by the Valley Gate+ by night and in front of the Fountain of the Big Snake* and to the Gate of the Ash-heaps,*+ and I was constantly examining the walls+ of Jerusalem, how they were broken down and the gates+ of it had been eaten up by fire.

13 The Valley Gate+ was what Haʹnun and the inhabitants of Za·noʹah+ repaired; they themselves built it and then set up its doors,+ its bolts+ and its bars,+ also a thousand cubits* in the wall as far as the Gate of the Ash-heaps.*+