Nehemiah 2:14
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New International Version (©2011)
Then I moved on toward the Fountain Gate and the King's Pool, but there was not enough room for my mount to get through;

New Living Translation (©2007)
Then I went to the Fountain Gate and to the King's Pool, but my donkey couldn't get through the rubble.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Then I went on to the Fountain Gate and to the King’s Pool, but there was no room for the animal that was under me to pass.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then I passed on to the Fountain Gate and the King's Pool, but there was no place for my mount to pass.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
I went on to the Fountain Gate and the King's Pool, but farther down it became too narrow for my animal to go through.

International Standard Version (©2012)
I proceeded to the Fountain Gate, and then to the King's Pool, but there wasn't sufficient clearance for the animal I was riding to pass.

NET Bible (©2006)
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.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Passing through Fountain Gate, I arrived at King's Pool, but the animal I was riding couldn't get through.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Then I went on to the gate of the fountain, and to the king's pool: but there was no place for the animal that was under me to pass.

American 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.

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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I passed to the gate of the fountain, and to the king's aqueduct, and there was no place for the beast on which I rode to pass.

Darby Bible Translation
And I went on to the fountain-gate, and to the king's pool; and there was no place for the beast under me to pass.

English Revised 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.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

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.

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,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

2:9-18 When Nehemiah had considered the matter, he told the Jews that God had put it into his heart to build the wall of Jerusalem. He does not undertake to do it without them. By stirring up ourselves and one another to that which is good, we strengthen ourselves and one another for it. We are weak in our duty, when we are cold and careless.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 14. - The gate of the fountain. A gate near the pool of Siloam (which, though bearing that name in Nehemiah 3:15, seems to be here called "the king's pool" ); perhaps the "gate between two walls of 2 Kings 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.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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.

(t) Travels, par. 3. c. 3. p. 227.

Wesley's Notes on the Bible

2:14 No place - The way being obstructed with heaps of rubbish.

Nehemiah 2:14 Parallel Commentaries
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Nehemiah Inspects the Walls
…13And 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. 14Then 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. 15Then 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. …

2 Kings 20:20 As for the other events of Hezekiah's reign, all his achievements and how he made the pool and the tunnel by which he brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?
Nehemiah 3:15 The Fountain Gate was repaired by Shallun son of Kol-Hozeh, ruler of the district of Mizpah. He rebuilt it, roofing it over and putting its doors and bolts and bars in place. He also repaired the wall of the Pool of Siloam, by the King's Garden, as far as the steps going down from the City of David.
Nehemiah 12:37 At the Fountain Gate they continued directly up the steps of the City of David on the ascent to the wall and passed above the site of David's palace to the Water Gate on the east.
Ecclesiastes 2:6 I made reservoirs to water groves of flourishing trees.