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The Pool of Bethesda was sometimes identified by commentators with the modern so-called Fountain of the Virgin, in the Kidron Valley, not far from the Pool of Siloam, or alternatively with the Birket Isrâ'il, a pool near the mouth of the valley, which runs into the Kidron south of St. Stephen's Gate.
Archaeologists excavating the site around the Pool of Siloam in the 1880s have noted that there was a stairway of 34 rock-hewn steps to the west of the Pool of Siloam leading up from a court in front of the Pool of Siloam. [17] The breadth of the steps varies from 27 ft (8.2 m) at the top to 22 ft (6.7 m) at the bottom. [17]
Bible commentator Matthew Henry references contemporary theologian Dr. Joseph Lightfoot, who identified the Pool of Siloam with the Pool of Bethesda and conjectured that the Tower of Siloam may have been supporting one of the five porches of the Pool of Bethesda mentioned in the Gospel of John, [8] and that the 18 victims were killed by the ...
The Valley of Gihon. The spring rises in a cave 20 feet by 7, [3] and is located 586 yards (535 m) northwards of the Pool of Siloam. [2] Being intermittent, it required the excavation of the Pool of Siloam, which stored the large amount of water needed for the town when the spring was not flowing.
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.
Neither Quaresmius nor Robinson identified the tunnel with Hezekiah, [9] but in 1871 Warren suggested that the Pool of Siloam may have been "dug by King Hezekiah" [11] and in 1884 following the discovery of the Siloam inscription wrote that: "The inscription thus appears to belong to the later period of the Hebrew monarchy, and may very well be ...
Siloam Springs: Siloam: Luke 13:4 AR Pope County: Smyrna: Smyrna: ... The Pool of Bethesda (Aramaic בית חסדא Beth ḥesda "House of Mercy") is a healing pool ...
The Siloam Tunnel (also known as Hezekiah's Tunnel), an Iron Age water supply system where the Siloam inscription was found; The Siloam Pool - two connected pools, an upper one from the Byzantine period at the exit of the Siloam Tunnel, and the recently discovered, lower pool dating to the Hasmonean part of the Second Temple Period.