Verse 14 The gate of the fountain - Of Siloah. The king's pool - Probably the aqueduct made by Hezekiah, to bring the waters of Gihon to the city of David. See 2Chr 32:30.

No place - The way being obstructed with heaps of rubbish.

Neh 2:14

The gate of the fountain. A gate near the pool of Siloam (which, though bearing that name in Neh 3:15, seems to be here called "the king’s pool" ); perhaps the "gate between two walls of 2Ki 25:4. There was no place for the beast that was under me to pass. The accumulated rubbish blocked the way. The animal could not proceed. Nehemiah therefore dismounted, and "in the night, dark as it was, pursued his way on foot.