BENJAMIN, GATE OF bĕn’ jə mən (שַׁ֤עַר בִּנְיָמִנ׃֙, gate of the right-hand son). A gate of pre-exilic Jerusalem (Jer 37:13; 38:7).

Since it led to Jeremiah’s home in Anathoth (37:12) but lay opposite the Corner Gate on the W (Zech 14:10), it seems to approximate the postexilic Muster Gate (Neh 3:31; Miphkad, KJV), at the N end of the city’s E wall. Others suggest the Sheep Gate (v. 32), at the E end of the N wall (cf. Ezek 9:2). It corresponds to the Upper Benjamin Gate into the Temple (Jer 20:2), built by King Jotham (2 Kings 15:35; cf. Ezek 9:2); see Jerusalem, III, A.