Nehemiah 3:15

15 And the fountain-gate repaired Shallun the son of Colhozeh, the chief of the district of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up its doors, its locks and its bars, and the wall of the pool of Shelah by the king's garden, and to the stairs that go down from the city of David.

Nehemiah 3:15 Meaning and Commentary

Nehemiah 3:15

But the gate of the fountain
Of which see ( Nehemiah 2:14 )

repaired Shallum, the son of Colhozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah;
of a tract, district, town, or city so called; perhaps that in the tribe of Benjamin; see ( Nehemiah 3:7 ) ,

he built it, and covered it;
roofed it, which is not said of any of the other gates, whether because of the fountain at it:

and set up the doors thereof
finished it completely:

and the wall of the pool of Siloah, by the king's garden;
which was formerly without the wall, on the west, but afterwards taken in by Manasseh, who built it; see ( 2 Chronicles 33:14 ) , and from hence the king's garden was watered:

and unto the stairs that go down from the city of David:
Zion, which was built on an eminence, from which they went down by steps into the lower city Acra.

Nehemiah 3:15 In-Context

13 The valley-gate repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of Zanoah; they built it, and set up its doors, its locks and its bars, and a thousand cubits of the wall as far as the dung-gate.

14 And the dung-gate repaired Malchijah the son of Rechab, the chief of the district of Beth-haccerem; he built it, and set up its doors, its locks and its bars.

15 And the fountain-gate repaired Shallun the son of Colhozeh, the chief of the district of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up its doors, its locks and its bars, and the wall of the pool of Shelah by the king's garden, and to the stairs that go down from the city of David.

16 After him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the chief of the half district of Beth-zur, even over against the sepulchres of David, and to the pool that was made, and to the house of the mighty [men].

17 After him repaired the Levites, Rehum the son of Bani. Next to him repaired Hashabiah, the chief of the half district of Keilah, for his district.

Footnotes

• [a]. Siloam, John 9.7.
• [b]. The part of Jerusalem thus called.