Then - that is, after having passed through the gate of the Essenes.
I went on to the gate of the fountain - that is, Siloah, from which turning round the fount of Ophel.
to the king’s pool: but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass - that is, by the sides of this pool (Solomon’s) there being water in the pool, and too much rubbish about it to permit the passage of the beast.