The Fountain Gate was repaired by Shallum son of Col-hozeh, the leader of the Mizpah district. He rebuilt it, roofed it, set up its doors, and installed its bolts and bars. Then he repaired the wall of the pool of Siloam near the king’s garden, and he rebuilt the wall as far as the stairs that descend from the City of David.
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The “pool of Siloah” lies at the southwestern foot of the temple hill, near the lower end of the Tyropoeon. It appears to have been at all times be…
Charles Ellicott
CharlesEllicott
He covered it. —Similar to laid the beams in Nehemiah 3:3; Nehemiah 3:6.
The pool of Siloah.
John Gill
JohnGill
But the gate of the fountain
Of which see (Nehemiah 2:14)
repaired Shallum, the son o…
Matthew Henry
MatthewHenry
The work was divided so that everyone might know what they had to do and attend to it, with a desire to excel, yet without contention or separate i…
Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes