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 pass over unto the gate of the fountain, and unto the pool of the king, and there is no place for the beast under me to pass over,
Nehemiah 3:15
And the gate of the fountain hath Shallum son of Col-Hozeh, head of the district of Mizpah, strengthened: he doth build it, and cover it, and set up its doors, its locks, and its bars, and the wall of the pool of Siloah, to the garden of the king, and unto the steps that are going down from the city of David.

The stairs

Nehemiah 3:15
And the gate of the fountain hath Shallum son of Col-Hozeh, head of the district of Mizpah, strengthened: he doth build it, and cover it, and set up its doors, its locks, and its bars, and the wall of the pool of Siloah, to the garden of the king, and unto the steps that are going down from the city of David.
2 Samuel 5:7
And David captureth the fortress of Zion, it is the city of David.

Water gate

Nehemiah 3:26
And the Nethinim have been dwelling in Ophel, unto over-against the water-gate at the east, and the tower that goeth out.
Nehemiah 8:1
And all the people are gathered as one man unto the broad place that is before the water-gate, and they say to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, that Jehovah commanded Israel.