Nehemiah 2:14

Nehemiah 2:14 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)Then I moved on toward the Fountain Gate and the King’s Pool, but there was not enough room for my mount to get through;
• English Standard Version (ESV)Then I went on to the Fountain Gate and to the King's Pool, but there was no room for the animal that was under me to pass.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Then I went on to the Fountain Gate and to the King’s Pool, but there was no room for the animal under me to pass.

Context of Nehemiah 2:14

12I went out at night. I took a few of my friends with me. I was riding on a donkey. That was the only animal that we took with us. I did not tell anyone the idea that God had put in my mind about Jerusalem. 13I went through the Valley Gate to the Jackal Well and the Dung Gate. As I went, I looked carefully at Jerusalem's walls. They were broken. Fire had destroyed the city's gates. I went to the Fountain Gate and then to the King's Pool. The path there was too narrow for my donkey to pass through. 15So I went along the path in the valley while it was still night. I continued to look at the wall. I reached the Valley Gate again and I went back into the city. 16The city's officers did not know that I had done this. I had not told anyone what I had decided to do. I had not told any of the other Jews, their priests, their leaders or the city's officers. I had not told any of the people who would help to do the work on the wall.

Nehemiah 2:14 word by word

וָאֶֽעֱבֹר֙ אֶל־שַׁ֣עַר הָעַ֔יִן וְאֶל־בְּרֵכַ֖ת הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ וְאֵין־מָק֥וֹם לַבְּהֵמָ֖ה לַעֲבֹ֥ר תַּחְתָּֽי׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Then I went onעָבַר‛âbar · to passH5674
• to the gateשַׁ֫עַרsha‛ar · gateH8179
• of the fountainעַ֫יִן‛ayin · Fountain (Gate)H5869
• and to the king’sמֶ֫לֶךְmelek · King'sH4428
• poolבְּרֵכָהberêkâh · (Shelah) PoolH1295
• no placeמָקוֹםmâqôm mâqôm meqômâh meqômâh · placeH4725
• for the beastבְּהֵמָהbehêmâh · animalH929

Cross-references for Nehemiah 2:14

• Nehemiah 3:15Col-Hozeh's son, Shallun, repaired the Fountain Gate. He was the ruler of the region of Mizpah. Shallun built a roof over the Fountain Gate. He fixed its doors in their place, as well as their wooden bars and iron bars. Shallun also repaired the wall of the Pool of Siloam, near the king's garden. He repaired the wall as far as the steps that come down from the City of David.
• 2 Kings 18:17King Sennacherib of Assyria sent his three most important officers from Lachish to Jerusalem, to speak to King Hezekiah. The three officers took a large army with them. They arrived in Jerusalem. They went and stood at the stream of water that came from the higher pool. It was on the road to the field where people washed clothes.
• 2 Kings 20:20The other things that happened while Hezekiah was king are written in a book. The book is called ‘The history of Judah's kings’. It tells about the things that Hezekiah did. It includes a report about the pool and the stream that he built to bring water into the city of Jerusalem.
• 2 Chronicles 32:30Hezekiah had stopped the water coming out from the higher spring at Gihon. Instead, he caused the water to go down to the west side of the City of David. Hezekiah was successful in all the things that he did.

Commentaries on Nehemiah 2:14

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 14The 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 2 Chronicles 32:30.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 9-18Verses 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.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 14The King’s Pool was likely the Pool of Siloam or another pool southeast of the city. Both pools were made from the overflow of the Gihon Spring (see 2 Kings 20:20).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 13-1513-15. 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.Read the comment

Topics related to Nehemiah 2:14

• Country
• Gihon
• Hezekiah
• Jerusalem
• Prudence

In the dictionaries

• King's Pool
• Laugh
• Pool
• Reproach
• Scorn
• En-
• Ezra-Nehemiah
• Jerusalem
• Pool; Pond; Reservoir
• Siloam; Siloah; Shelah; Shiloah

Commentaries on Nehemiah 2

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings