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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
I passed on to the Gate of the Well and the King's Pool, where there was not enough room for my animal to pass with me.
Nehemiah 3:15
Shallun son of Col-Hozeh, head of the district of Mizpah, worked on the Fountain Gate. He rebuilt it, put on its roof, and positioned its doors, its bolts, and its bars. In addition, he rebuilt the wall of the Pool of Siloam, by the royal garden, as far as the steps that go down from the City of David.

The stairs

Nehemiah 3:15
Shallun son of Col-Hozeh, head of the district of Mizpah, worked on the Fountain Gate. He rebuilt it, put on its roof, and positioned its doors, its bolts, and its bars. In addition, he rebuilt the wall of the Pool of Siloam, by the royal garden, as far as the steps that go down from the City of David.
2 Samuel 5:7
But David captured the fortress of Zion (that is, the city of David).

Water gate

Nehemiah 3:26
and the temple servants who were living on Ophel worked up to the area opposite the Water Gate toward the east and the protruding tower.
Nehemiah 8:1
all the people gathered together in the plaza which was in front of the Water Gate. They asked Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses which the LORD had commanded Israel.

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