Nehemiah 3:15 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

He covered it. — Similar to laid the beams in Nehemiah 3:3; Nehemiah 3:6.

The pool of Siloah. — Called before “the king’s pool,” which received its water as “sent” through a long subterranean conduit, and supplied the king’s gardens.

The stairs. — Down the steep sides of Ophel, of which traces are thought still to remain. From this point it is very hard to trace the exact course.

Nehemiah 3:15

15 But the gate of the fountain repaired Shallun the son of Colhozeh, 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.