Horse-Gate
Easton's Bible Dictionary [1]
Nehemiah 3:28 Jeremiah 31:40
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [2]
Horse-Gate . See Jerusalem, p. 439 b .
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [3]
( שׁר הִסּוּסַים , Sha'Ar Has-Susim', Gate Of The Horses; Sept. Πύλη Ἵππων or Ἱππέων ,Vulg. Porta Equorum), a gate in the first or old wall of Jerusalem, at the west end of the bridge leading from Zion to the Temple ( Nehemiah 3:28; Jeremiah 31:40), perhaps so called as being that by which the "horses of the sun" ( 2 Kings 23:11) were led by the idolaters into the sacred enclosure ( 2 Chronicles 23:15; comp. 2 Kings 11:16). (See Strong's Harmony of the Gospels, Append. 1, p. 14.) Barclay, however, thinks of a position near the Hippodrome (which, on the contrary, was a later edifice), at the S.E. corner of the Temple wall (City of the Great King, p. 152). (See Jerusalem).
