Teks -- Nehemiah 2:14 (NET)

2:14 I passed on to the Gate of the Well and the King’s Pool, where there was not enough room for my animal to pass with me.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Neh 2:14 - No place

The way being obstructed with heaps of rubbish.

JFB: Neh 2:13-15 - I went out by night by the gate of the valley

That is, the Jaffa gate, near the tower of Hippicus.

JFB: Neh 2:13-15 - even before the dragon well

That is, fountain on the opposite side of the valley.

JFB: Neh 2:13-15 - and to the dung port

The gate on the east of the city, through which there ran a common sewer to the brook Kedron and the valley of Hinnom.

JFB: Neh 2:14 - Then

That is, after having passed through the gate of the Essenes.

JFB: Neh 2:14 - I went on to the gate of the fountain

That is, Siloah, from which turning round the fount of Ophel.

JFB: Neh 2:14 - to the king's pool: but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass

That is, by the sides of this pool (Solomon's) there being water in the pool, and too much rubbish about it to permit the passage of the beast.

Clarke: Neh 2:14 - The gate of the fountain

The gate of the fountain - Of Siloah

Clarke: Neh 2:14 - The king’ s pool

The king’ s pool - Probably the aqueduct made by Hezekiah, to bring the waters of Gihon to the city of David. See 2Ch 32:30.

TSK: Neh 2:14 - the gate of the fountain // the king’ s pool

the gate of the fountain : The gate leading either to the fountain of Siloam, on the east of the city, or to that of Gihon, on the west. Neh 3:15; 2Ki 18:17, 2Ki 20:20; 2Ch 32:30

the king’ s pool : Probably the aqueduct made by Hezekiah to bring the waters of Gihon to the city of David.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Neh 2:14 - The gate of the fountain // The king’ s pool // There was no place for the beast to pass

The gate of the fountain i.e. which led to the fountain, to wit, of Siloah or Gibon.

The king’ s pool that which king Hezekiah had made: of which see 2Ch 32:3,30 .

There was no place for the beast to pass the way being obstructed with heaps of rubbish.

Haydock: Neh 2:14 - Aqueduct

Aqueduct, or reservoir, made by Ezechias, 2 Paralipomenon xxxii. 30.

Gill: Neh 2:14 - Then I went on to the pool of the fountain, and to the king's pool // but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass

Then I went on to the pool of the fountain, and to the king's pool..... That led to the fountain Siloah or Gihon, so called; it was the way to the potter's field, to Bethlehem, Hebron, Gaza, and Egypt. Rauwolff says ^t there is still standing on the outside of the valley Tyropaeum (which distinguishes the two mountains Zion and Moriah) the gate of the fountain, which hath its name, because it leadeth towards the fountain of Siloah, called the king's pool:

but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass; because of the heaps of rubbish that lay there.