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.
I went out by night by the gate of the valley - i:e., the Jaffa gate, near the tower of Hippicus.
Even before the dragon well - i:e., fountain on the opposite side of the valley, called "the dragon well," according to conjecture, from the spout being in the form of a dragon-mouth, or from the water meandering through the valley in a serpentine course. [The Septuagint calls it: stoma peegees toon sukoon, mouth of the fountain of figs.] The Syriac designates it, 'the fountain of the hills;' and the Arabic, 'the torrent.'
And to the dung port - the gate on the east of the city, through which there ran a common sewer to the brook Kidron and the valley of Hinnom.