Nehemiah 3:15

3:15 Shallun son of Col-Hozeh, head of the district of Mizpah, worked on the Fountain Gate. He rebuilt it, put on its roof, and positioned its doors, its bolts, and its bars. In addition, he rebuilt the wall of the Pool of Siloam, ¹  by the royal garden, as far as the steps that go down from the City of David.

Nehemiah 13:19

13:19 When the evening shadows ²  began to fall on the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I ordered ³  the doors to be closed. I further directed that they were not to be opened until after the Sabbath. I positioned ⁴  some of my young men at the gates so that no load could enter on the Sabbath day.

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¹ tn The Hebrew word translated “Siloam” is הַשֶּׁלַח (hashelakh, “water-channel”; cf. ASV, NASB, NRSV, TEV, CEV “Shelah”). It apparently refers to the Pool of Siloam whose water supply came from the Gihon Spring via Hezekiah’s Tunnel built in 701 B.C. (cf. Isa 8:6). See BDB 1019 s.v. שִׁלֹחַ; W. L. Holladay, Concise Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon, 372. On the etymology of the word, which is a disputed matter, see HALOT 1517 s.v. III שֶׁלַח.

² tn Heb “the gates of Jerusalem grew dark.”

³ tn Heb “said” (so also in v. 22).

⁴ tn Heb “caused to stand.”