Garden, The King’s
Garden, The King’s
Mention is made of the king’s garden in 2Ki 25:4; Jer 39:4; Jer 52:7 (fundamentally the same passage), in connection with the flight of Zedekiah from Jerusalem; and again in Neh 3:15. The last passage shows that the garden was at the pool of Siloah (the Revised Version (British and American) Shelah), at the mouth of Tyropoeon, near the fountain gate. This would seem to be the gate between the two walls which was by the king’s garden of the passages in 2 Ki and Jer (compare 2Ch 32:5). On the topography, see JERUSALEM; also Robinson, Palestine, II, 142. Arnold (in Herzog) thinks the garden is probably identical with the garden of Uzza of 2Ki 21:18, 2Ki 21:26.