Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And at the fountain gate, which was over against them, they went up by the stairs of the city of David, at the going up of the wall, above the house of David, even unto the water gate eastward.

The fountain gate

Bible References

The fountain gate

Nehemiah 2:14
And I shall pass over to the gate of the fountain and pool of the king: and not a place for the beast under me to pass.
Nehemiah 3:15
And the gate of the fountain Shallum son of Colhozeh, ruler of the circuit of Mizpeh, held fast; he will build it and cover it, and set, it up, its doors, its bolts, and its bars, and the walls of the pool of Shiloh by the king's garden, and even to the steps going down from the city of David.

The stairs

Nehemiah 3:15
And the gate of the fountain Shallum son of Colhozeh, ruler of the circuit of Mizpeh, held fast; he will build it and cover it, and set, it up, its doors, its bolts, and its bars, and the walls of the pool of Shiloh by the king's garden, and even to the steps going down from the city of David.
2 Samuel 5:7
And David will take the fastness of Zion: this the city of David.

Water gate

Nehemiah 3:26
And the Nethinims were dwelling in Ophel even to the front of the gate of waters to the sunrising, and the tower coming forth.
Nehemiah 8:1
And all the people will gather together as one man to the broad place that was before the gate of the waters; and they will say to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses which Jehovah commanded Israel.