Matthew Poole and continuators on Nehemiah 2:14

14 Then I went on to the gate of the fountain , and to the kings pool : but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass .

i. e. Which led to the fountain, to wit, of Siloah or Gihon.

That which King Hezekiah had made: of which see 2 Chron. 32. 3. 30.

The way being obstructed with heaps of rubbish.