KJV King James Version
Then I went on to the gate of the fountain, and to the king’s pool: but [there was] no place for the beast [that was] under me to pass.
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Nehemiah 2:14
Then I went on to the gate of the fountain, and to the king’s pool: but [there was] no place for the beast [that was] under me to pass.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Then I went on to the Fountain Gate and the King’s Pool, but there was no room for the animal under me to get through;
WEB World English Bible
Then I went on to the spring gate and to the king’s pool: but there was no place for the animal that was under me to pass.
ASV American Standard Version
Then I went on to the fountain gate and to the king’s pool: but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And I pass over unto the gate of the fountain, and unto the pool of the king, and there is no place for the beast under me to pass over,
Surrounding context — Nehemiah 2
11 So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.
12 And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I [any] man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem: neither [was there any] beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon.
13 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.
14 Then I went on to the gate of the fountain, and to the king’s pool: but [there was] no place for the beast [that was] under me to pass.
15 Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall, and turned back, and entered by the gate of the valley, and [so] returned.
16 And the rulers knew not whither I went, or what I did; neither had I as yet told [it] to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest that did the work.
17 Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we [are] in, how Jerusalem [lieth] waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.
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וָאֶֽעֱבֹר֙H5674 · a.varto passאֶל־H413 · elto(wards)שַׁ֣עַרH8179 · sha.argateהָעַ֔יִןH5869 · a.yineyeוְאֶל־H413 · elto(wards)בְּרֵכַ֖תH1295 · be.re.khah(Shelah) Poolהַמֶּ֑לֶךְH4428 · me.lekhkingוְאֵין־H369 · a.yinnothingמָק֥וֹםH4725 · ma.qomplaceלַבְּהֵמָ֖הH929 · be.he.mahanimalלַעֲבֹ֥רH5674 · a.varto passתַּחְתָּֽי׃H8478 · ta.chatunderneath: under
Cross-references
Nehemiah 3:15But the gate of the fountain repaired Shallun the son of Colhozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and the wall of the pool of Siloah by the king’s garden, and unto the stairs that go down from the city of David.2 Kings 20:20And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?2 Chronicles 32:30This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.2 Kings 18:17And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which [is] in the highway of the fuller’s field.
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