Nehemya 2:13

Ki̇tap (Turkish Bible)

13 Hâlâ karanlıktı. Dere Kapısından Ejder Pınarına, oradan Gübre Kapısına gittim. Yeruşalimin yıkılan surlarını, yanıp kül olan kapılarını gözden geçirdim.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the gate: Nehemiah 2:15, Nehemiah 3:13, 2 Chronicles 26:9

the dung port: This was the gate on the eastern side of the city, through which the filth was carried to the brook Kidron and valley of Hinnom. Nehemiah 3:13, Nehemiah 3:14, Nehemiah 12:31

the walls: Nehemiah 2:3, Nehemiah 2:17, Nehemiah 1:3, Jeremiah 5:10

Reciprocal: Psalms 74:3 - the perpetual

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I went out by night, by the gate of the valley,.... Where that formerly stood, for the gates had been burnt, and were not as yet rebuilt; this was the gate that led to the valley of Jehoshaphat, according to some; or rather to the valley of dead bodies, through which the brook Kidron ran, see 2 Chronicles 26:9 it is the gate through which Christ went to Calvary; it led to Shiloh, Bethhoron, and Golan:

even before the dragon well; so called from its winding about, just as a crooked winding river is called serpentine; though some think here stood an image of a dragon, either in wood, or stone, or brass, out of the mouth of which the water flowed from the well; and others, that since the desolations of Jerusalem, serpents or dragons had their abode here:

and to the dung port; by which they used to carry the dung out of the city, and by which they went to Joppa, the sea, and all the western parts:

and viewed the walls of Jerusalem: in what condition they were, what was necessary to be wholly taken down, and where to begin to build: it must have been a moonlight night or he could not have taken a view; for to have carried torches or lamps with them would have discovered them:

and the gates thereof were consumed with fire; nothing of them remained.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The gate of the valley - A gate opening on the valley of Hinnom, which skirted Jerusalem to the west and south. The exact position is uncertain; as is also that of “the dragon well.”

The dung port - The gate by which offal and excrements were conveyed out of the city, and placed eastward of the valley-gate.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Nehemiah 2:13. The dragon well — Perhaps so called because of the representation of a dragon, out of whose mouth the stream issued that proceeded from the well.

Dung port — This was the gate on the eastern side of the city, through which the filth of the city was carried into the valley of Hinnom.