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Living water (Hebrew: מַֽיִם־חַיִּ֖ים, romanized: mayim-ḥayyim; Greek: ὕδωρ ζῶν, romanized: hydōr zōn) is a biblical term which appears in both the Old and New Testaments. In Jeremiah 2:13 and 17:13 , the prophet describes God as "the spring of living water", who has been forsaken by his chosen people Israel.
Water services in the West Bank continue to be provided by municipalities, two multi-municipal utilities and village councils. [91] The largest and oldest multi-municipal utility in the West Bank is the Jerusalem Water Undertaking (JWU) in the Ramallah and Al-Bireh area.
Gihon Spring (Hebrew: מעיין הגיחון) or Fountain of the Virgin, [1] also known as Saint Mary's Pool, [2] is a spring in the Kidron Valley.It was the main source of water for the Pool of Siloam in Jebus and the later City of David, the original site of Jerusalem.
A 5th water line to Jerusalem is planned to be completed by Mekorot by the year 2065. To store and regulate water from the 5th line, Hagihon plans to build a water reservoir at the Jerusalem Sacher park with a volume of 25,000 cubic meters. A sports field is planned to be built above the reservoir. [8]
Laying water pipe to Jerusalem, c. 1946. Because the coastal plain had few water resources, Theodor Herzl already envisioned the transfer of water from the Jordan River to the coast for irrigation and drinking water supply. In 1937 the national water company Mekorot was created, more than a decade before the creation of the state of Israel.
A spring is the "eye of the landscape", the natural burst of living water, flowing all year or drying up at certain seasons. In contrast to the "troubled waters" of wells and rivers (Jer. 2:18), there gushes forth from it "living water", to which Jesus compared the grace of the Holy Spirit (John 4:10; 7:38; compare Isaiah 12:3; 44:3).
In the ancient period, the area where the village stands was occupied by the necropolis of the Biblical kingdom. [12] [13] In the valley below, according to the Hebrew Bible, "the waters of Shiloah go softly" (from the Gihon Spring; Isaiah 8:6) and "the Pool of Siloam" (Nehemiah 3:15) to water what since King Solomon became known as the king's garden (Jeremiah 39:4; 52:7; 2 Kings 25:4 ...
The Jerusalem Water Channel is a central drainage channel of Second Temple Jerusalem, now an archaeological site in Jerusalem. It is a large drainage tunnel or sewer that runs down the Tyropoeon Valley and once drained runoff and waste water from the city of Jerusalem .