Verse 37
37. At the fountain gate Near the pool or fountain of Siloam.
Which was over against them Rather, and before them, ( נגדם ,) referring not to the position of the gate but to the advance of the procession. The word is here used as in Joshua 6:5; Joshua 6:20, in the sense of straight forwards. The procession passed by the fountain-gate, and straight forwards they went up by the stairs of the city of David. These stairs were situated somewhere on the eastern slope of Zion. Nehemiah 3:15.
At the going up of the wall Or, in the ascent to the wall. The exact meaning is difficult to determine. The reference may be to some ascent by which the procession moved up to the wall, or went up upon it; or to some rise of ground over which the wall itself was built. Bertheau thinks it was an ascent by which the procession mounted upon the wall, having descended from it at some previous point.
Above the house of David The probable meaning is, opposite to the building or place where David once had his royal dwelling.
Unto the water gate Somewhere in the vicinity of the bridge over the Tyropoeon, which connected mounts Zion and Moriah. Nehemiah 3:26. It opened upon a broad street in which the people gathered to hear the law read. Nehemiah 8:1. In this broad place, perhaps, both processions united, and marched together to the house of God. Nehemiah 12:40.
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