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 went on to the Fountain Gate, and to the King's Pool. But there was no place for the animal that was under me to pass.
Nehemiah 3:15
And the Fountain Gate was repaired by Shallum the son of Colhozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah. He built it and covered it, and set up its doors, its locks, and its bars, and the wall of the Pool of Shelah by the King's Garden, and to the stairs that go down from the City of David.

The stairs

Nehemiah 3:15
And the Fountain Gate was repaired by Shallum the son of Colhozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah. He built it and covered it, and set up its doors, its locks, and its bars, and the wall of the Pool of Shelah by the King's Garden, and to the stairs that go down from the City of David.
2 Samuel 5:7
And David took the stronghold of Zion; it is the city of David.

Water gate

Nehemiah 3:26
And the temple-slaves who lived in Ophel repaired across from the Water Gate toward the east, and the tower that sticks out.
Nehemiah 8:1
And all the people gathered themselves as one man into the street before the water gate. And they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the Book of the Law of Moses, which Jehovah had commanded to Israel.