Nehemiah 12:37

37 At the Fountain Gate they went straight ahead, up the steps of the City of David using the wall stairway above the house of David to the Water Gate on the east.

Nehemiah 12:37 Meaning and Commentary

Nehemiah 12:37

And at the fountain gate, which was over against them
Of which see ( Nehemiah 2:14 ) and which was to the south of the dung gate:

they went up;
that is, one of the two companies, that which took to the right on the wall, ( Nehemiah 12:31 ) with which these words are to be connected:

by the stairs of the city of David;
which went up to the city of Zion, built on an eminence:

at the going up of the wall, above the house of David;
where the wall was higher, and there was an ascent to it:

even unto the water gate eastward;
of which see ( Nehemiah 3:26 ) ( 8:16 ) turning from the south to the east, and so drew nigh the temple.

Nehemiah 12:37 In-Context

35 Some of the young priests had trumpets. Next, playing the musical instruments of David the man of God, came Zechariah son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micaiah, the son of Zaccur, the son of Asaph,

36 and his brothers Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah, and Hanani. Ezra the scholar led them.

37 At the Fountain Gate they went straight ahead, up the steps of the City of David using the wall stairway above the house of David to the Water Gate on the east.

38 The other choir proceeded to the left. I and half of the people followed them on the wall from the Tower of Furnaces to the Broad Wall,

39 over the Ephraim Gate, the Jeshanah Gate, the Fish Gate, the Tower of Hananel, and the Tower of the Hundred as far as the Sheep Gate, stopping at the Prison Gate.