Horse-gate

The Horse Gate was one of the gates in the walls of Jerusalem, located on the east side of the city between the Water Gate and the East Gate, apparently near the southeast corner of the temple mount. Nehemiah 3:28 records that the priests repaired the wall above the Horse Gate during the reconstruction project. The gate's name likely derived from its use as the entry point for horses serving the royal stables or the cavalry units quartered in the nearby palace complex.

The Horse Gate also appears in the dramatic account of Queen Athaliah's execution: when she rushed to the temple upon hearing the coronation shouts for the young king Joash, Jehoiada the priest commanded that she be led out to the Horse Gate to be executed there rather than within the temple precincts (2 Kings 11:16; 2 Chronicles 23:15). The gate's proximity to the palace made it the natural place for this act of royal justice. Jeremiah 31:40 includes the Horse Gate in the boundary description of the future holy city that will never again be plucked up or overthrown.