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Mention is made of “the king's garden†in ; ; (fundamentally the same passage), in connection with the flight of Zedekiah from Jerusalem; and again in . The last passage shows that the “garden†was at the pool of Siloah (the Revised Version (British and American) “Shelahâ€), 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 ). 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 , .