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.
Ver. 15. He built it, and covered it] A Chaldee word. This people, in their captivity, though they had not lost the use of their native tongue, yet they had got a tincture of the Chaldee; and of the Hebrew and Chaldee came the Syriac, the mother tongue in Christ's time, as appears by Talitha cumi, and other like passages.
And unto the stairs] By these David descended into the lower city, and suitors ascended to his palace. This is allegorically applied by some to Christ (the true Jacob's ladder, Joh 1:51), who came down and humbled himself to the utmost; that we by him might have access, with success, in all our suits.