Nehemiah 2:14

I went on Literally -I crossed" or -passed over."

to the gate of the fountain R.V. to the fountain gate. On the disputed identification of -the fountain gate," see Nehemiah 3:15; Nehemiah 12:37. It seems to have stood almost at the southernmost part of the city, at the mouth of the narrow valley of the Tyropoeon. It derived its name either from its proximity to the waters of -the only real well at Jerusalem," now known as Bîr Eyub, -the well of Job" (probably En-Rogel) -a little below the junction of the Kidron and Hinnom valleys" (Wilson's Jerusalem, p. 104), or from its proximity to Siloam, called by Josephus -a fountain" (πηγή) in Bell. Jud.v. 4. 1.

the king's pool Probably to be identified with the Pool of Siloam, and here called -the king's pool" because it adjoined -the king's garden." It consisted of an upper and a lower reservoir (Isaiah 7:3; Isaiah 22:9; Isaiah 22:11; 2 Kings 18:17) fed by a subterranean conduit from the waters of Gihon (cf. 2 Kings 20:20).

there was no place Apparently owing to the ruins of the walls and the steepness of the slope Nehemiah could not continue his investigation, following the line of the wall.