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During the Second Temple period, the Pool of Siloam was centrally located in the Jerusalem suburb of Acra (Hebrew: חקרא), also known as the Lower City. [4] Today, the Pool of Siloam is the lowest place in altitude within the historical city of Jerusalem, with an elevation of about 625 metres (2,051 ft) above sea level. [5]
Solomon's Pools, consisting of three large reservoirs, are situated several dozen meters apart, each pool with a roughly 6 metres (20 ft) drop to the next.They are rectangular or trapezoidal in shape, partly hewn into the bedrock and partly built, between 118 and 179 metres (387–587 ft) long and 8 to 23 metres (26–75 ft) deep, with a total capacity of well over a quarter of a million cubic ...
Model of the pools during the Second Temple Period (Israel Museum). The Pool of Bethesda is referred to in John's Gospel in the Christian New Testament, in an account of Jesus healing a paralyzed man at a pool of water in Jerusalem, described as being near the Sheep Gate and surrounded by five covered colonnades or porticoes.
The pool's original date of construction is unknown. [4] [8] Biblical scholar Edward Robinson speculated that the pool may have been the Upper Pool mentioned in the Book of Isaiah (Isaiah 36:2), seeing that it is the only pool situated on the highest ground outside of Jerusalem, [11] and entraps the runoff waters of the upper watercourse of the Hinnom valley. [12]
Hezekiah's Pool (1862); in the background is the double-domed Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Flavius Josephus referred to the pool as Amygdalon, meaning 'almond tree' in Greek, but it is very likely that he derived the name phonetically from the Hebrew word מגדל migdal, meaning 'tower', thus it is believed that the original name was Pool of the Tower or Towers.
A massive 1,500-year-old pool was uncovered at Ein Hanya, according to the Israel Antiquities Authority.
The Sultan's Pool is dry in summer and is used as a major event venue for concerts and festivals. [4] Many international artists have performed at the site during their visit to Israel, including Dire Straits (who played the second concert of the Brothers in Arms Tour in the Sultan Pool's, in 1985), Eurythmics, Leonard Cohen, James Taylor, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Jethro Tull ...
The Struthion Pool, effectually translated from the Greek as 'Sparrow Pool' [1] (Aramaic: אשווח צפרא) is a large cuboid cistern beneath the Convent of the Sisters of Zion in the Old City of Jerusalem, built by Herod the Great in the first century BCE.