Tower of the furnaces
Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)
(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).
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