Nehemiah 2 · Verse 14

Nehemiah 2:14

Then I went on to the gate of the fountain, and to the king’s pool: but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass.
Nehemiah 2:14, King James Version

Nehemiah 2:14 in other translations

BSBThen I went on to the Fountain Gate and the King’s Pool, but there was no room for the animal under me to get through;
WEBThen I went on to the spring gate and to the king’s pool, but there was no place for the animal that was under me to pass.
ASVThen I went on to the fountain gate and to the king’s pool: but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass.
YLTAnd 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,
DARBYAnd I went on to the fountain-gate, and to the king's pool; and there was no place for the beast under me to pass.
BBEThen I went on to the door of the fountain and to the king's pool: but there was no room for my beast to get through.
WebsterThen I went on to the gate of the fountain, and to the king's pool: but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass.

What does Nehemiah 2:14 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Nehemiah 2:13-15

13-15. I went out by night by the gate of the valley--that is, the Jaffa gate, near the tower of Hippicus. even before the dragon well--that is, fountain on the opposite side of the valley. and to the dung port--the gate on the east of the city, through which there ran a common sewer to the brook Kedron and the valley of Hinnom.

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 14 The gate of the fountain - Of Siloah. The king's pool - Probably the aqueduct made by Hezekiah, to bring the waters of Gihon to the city of David. See 2Chr 32:30.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Nehemiah 2:9-18

When Nehemiah had considered the matter, he told the Jews that God had put it into his heart to build the wall of Jerusalem. He does not undertake to do it without them. By stirring up ourselves and one another to that which is good, we strengthen ourselves and one another for it. We are weak in our duty, when we are cold and careless.

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Nehemiah 2:14 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וָאֶֽעֱבֹר֙va.'e.'e.Vorand I passed onH5674
אֶל\־'el-toH413
שַׁ֣עַרSha.'ar[the] gate ofH8179
הָעַ֔יִןha.'A.yinthe springH5869
וְאֶל\־ve.'el-and toH413
בְּרֵכַ֖תbe.re.Khat[the] pool ofH1295
הַמֶּ֑לֶךְha.Me.lekhthe kingH4428
וְאֵין\־ve.'ein-and there notH369
מָק֥וֹםma.Kom[was] roomH4725
לַבְּהֵמָ֖הla.be.he.Mahfor the animalH929
לַעֲבֹ֥רla.'a.Vorto pass throughH5674
תַּחְתָּֽי\׃tach.Taiunder meH8478

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Nehemiah 2:14

  • Nehemiah 3:15

    But the gate of the fountain repaired Shallun the son of Col–hozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and the wall of the pool of Siloah by the king’s garden, and unto the stairs that go down from the city of David.

  • 2 Kings 20:20

    And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

  • 2 Chronicles 32:30

    This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.

  • 2 Kings 18:17

    And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rab–shakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller’s field.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
the gate of the fountain.The gate leading either to the fountain of Siloam, on the east of the city, or to that of Gihon, on the west.
3:15; 2Ki 18:17; 20:20; 2Ch 32:30
the king's pool.Probably the aqueduct made by Hezekiah to bring the waters of Gihon to the city of David.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Nehemiah 2:13

    And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire.

  • Nehemiah 2:14

    Then I went on to the gate of the fountain, and to the king’s pool: but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass.

  • Nehemiah 2:15

    Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall, and turned back, and entered by the gate of the valley, and so returned.

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Nehemiah 2:14 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Pasé luego á la puerta de la Fuente, y al estanque del Rey; mas no había lugar por donde pasase la cabalgadura en que iba.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et je passai à la porte de la fontaine, et à l’étang du roi, et il n’y avait pas de place où puisse passer la bête qui était sous moi.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und ich zog hinüber zum Quellentore und zum Königsteiche, und es war kein Raum zum Durchkommen für das Tier, welches unter mir war.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Et transivi ad portam fontis, et ad aquæductum regis, et non erat locus jumento cui sedebam ut transiret.