He built the high gate in the house of the Lord,.... See the note on 2Ki 15:35and on the wall of Ophel he built much; which Kimchi interprets an high place; it was the eastern part of Mount Zion. Josephus calls it Ophlas, and says it joined to the eastern porch of the temple; and some have thought the porch of the temple is meant; the Targum renders it a palace; it is a tradition of the Jews that it was the holy of holies .
De Bell. Jud. l. 5. c. 4. sect. 2. Vid. Hieron Trad. Heb. in lib. Paralipom. fol. 86. A. F.