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Next to these repaired Ezer the son of Jeshua, the ruler of Mizpah, another piece (on שֵׁנִית מִדָּה, see rem. on Neh 3:11) opposite the ascent to the armoury of the angle. הַנֵּשֶׁק or הַנֶּשֶׁק (in most editions) is probably an abbreviation of בֵּית־הַנֶּשֶׁק, arsenal, armoury; and הַמִּקְצֹועַ is, notwithstanding the article in הַנֶּשֶׁק, genitive; for to combine it as an accusative with עֲלֹותּ, and read, “the going up of the armoury upon the angle,” gives no suitable meaning. The locality itself cannot indeed be more precisely stated. The armoury was probably situate on the east side of Zion, at a place where the wall of the city formed an angle; or it occupied an angle within the city itself, no other buildings adjoining it on the south. The opinion of Bertheau, that the armoury stood where the tower described by Tobler (Dritte Wand. p. 228) stands, viz., about midway between the modern Zion gate and the dung-gate, and of which he says that “its lower strata of stones are undoubtedly of a remoter date than the rebuilding of the wall in the sixteenth century,” coincides with the assumption already refuted, that the old wall of the city of David passed, like the southern wall of modern Jerusalem, over Mount Zion.