In verse 15, Shallun, who repairs the Fountain Gate, repairs also “the wall of the Pool of Shelah by the king’s garden.” Allow that Shelah is Siloam, yet this need not be a wall running down to Siloam--if we were to take that line we should go wrong all the rest of the way--it is the transverse wall in the same valley above. Through a gate in this wall the Pool of Siloam would be conveniently reached from the Suburb; and this would be the “Gate between two walls,” through which Zedekiah fled away (2 Kings, xxv. 4; Jer. xxxix. 4; lii. 7). The wall was by the king’s garden (_le_ = by or near). Shallun pursues his work along the transverse wall eastward “unto (_ad_) the Stairs (_maaloth_) that go down from the City of David.” So the City of David includes Ophel, and the Stairs descend the Ophel slope westward into the bed of the Tyropœon. [Illustration: NEHEMIAH’S SOUTH WALL, ACCORDING TO GEORGE ST CLAIR. ⁂ The contour lines represent successive steps of ten feet. The height at the Triple Gate is 2379 feet. REFERENCE. Suggested line of wall -- -- -- 1 Valley gate. 2 Dung gate. 3 Fountain gate. 4 King’s pool. 5 Wall of Pool of Shelah. 6 King’s Gardens. 7 Stairs of the City of David. 8 Sepulchres of David. 9 The Pool that was made. 10 House of the mighty. 11 Turning of the wall. 12 The Armoury. 13 Turning of the wall. 14 House of Eliashib. 15 Turning of the wall. 16 The Corner. 17 Turning of the wall. 18 Tower at King’s house. (Tower that standeth out.) 19 Water gate. 20 Tower that lieth out. 21 Great Tower that lieth out. 22 Wall of Ophel. 23 Horse gate. 24 Houses of priests. 25 Gate Miphkad. 26 Ascent of the corner. 27 Going up of the wall. 28 House of David. 29 Gate between two walls. 30 Gate of the Guard (2 Kings, xi. 19). 31 Gate of the Guard (Neh. xii. 39).]