
	Where results make sense

Topic: Gihon Spring

Related Topics

Colorado Springs, Colorado

hot spring

Prague Spring

Palm Springs, California

The Rite of Spring

Spring and Autumn Period

spring device

Colorado Springs

spring water

Dick Spring

Alice Springs

In the News (Sun 3 Jun 12)

EXECUTIVE POWER

Iran

ANALYSIS

Pakistan

Family compact

	No. 664: Gihon Spring
		Gihon Spring lies outside the city and below it.
		Then ran the water from the spring to the pool for 1200 cubits, and a hundred cubits was the height of the rock above the head of the stone-cutters.
		He did some tunneling to connect with the Spring, But he also used what was already there.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi664.htm (565 words)

	The Fountain Gate: Part III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The conduit itself received its water directly from the Gihon spring, and served as a means of channelling the water away from the spring in a steady and continuous flow.
		The spring itself was a pulsating water source that gushed intermittently as a result of the perpetual gradual filling and sudden emptying of a subterranean siphon.
		This gently flowing current of the channel brook ran from the Gihon spring all the way down the eastern side of the City of David, where it debouched into frequent pools of water through a number of openings that would have been cut in the channel’s eastern side.
	www.bibarch.com /Perspectives/6.3A.htm (4078 words)

	Is the Temple Location Really South of the Dome of the Rock
		Due to the efforts of W.F. Birch and the discovery in 1880 C.E. of the Hezekiahan inscription about the construction of the tunnel from the Gihon Spring to the southern end of the southeast ridge, the controversy over the location of “Zion” was finally settled.
		Martin contends that Jerusalem was built in ancient times around and over the Gihon Spring in order to have water form the only spring within a radius of five miles of the city.
		Martin believes that this water source in the center of the Temple is the Gihon Spring south of the Dome of the Rock and on the southeastern ridge of Jerusalem.
	www.contenderministries.org /prophecy/templelocationPF.php (3086 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Gihon Spring is outside the city walls on the eastern side of Jerusalem in the Kidron Valley.
		The word "Gihon" means "gushing", which is a very suitable name since the spring acts like a siphon and pours out a tremendous amount of water for thirty minutes and then almost dries up for between four and ten hours.
		In the Bible, this pool is referred to as "the reservoir between the two walls" (Isaiah 22:9-11), as the "lower Gihon" in contrast to the "upper Gihon" (II Chronicles 32:30), and simply as "the pool" (II Kings 20:20).
	alpha.furman.edu /~mcknight/pap23.htm (630 words)

	Hez-Tun
		The Gihon Spring, which was outside the city, confronted King Hezekiah with a double dilemma: to ensure water for the besieged city, yet to deny the source of the water to the Assyrian forces.
		The waters of the Gihon were diverted into the Gai wadi by means of a tunnel 533 meters (581 yards) long, which was hewed from both ends simultaneously, probably along the course of a natural cleft in the rock.
		The inscription was discovered in 1880 by a boy who was bathing in the waters of the Gihon Spring, and was studied by Conrad Schick, one of the first explorers of Jerusalem.
	www.biblicalheritage.org /Places/hez-tun.htm (349 words)

	Hezekiah's Tunnel and the Gihon Spring
		This is so because The Gihon Spring was once Jerusalem's main water source and without it, it is questionable whether the city would have been settled at all.
		Hezekiah's Tunnel and the Gihon Spring are located in the Kidron Valley, outside the Old City walls, in the City of David (Ir David), also known by the Arabs as Silwan.
		The Gihon Spring, ancient Jerusalem's main water source, was located outside the city walls during the reign of King Hezekiah (715-687 BCE).
	www.ohav.org /travel/hezekiahtunnel.html (757 words)

	Anti Essays : : The Water of Jerusalem
		From the fountainhead of the spring, a number of waterworks were built throughout the Judean period, to transport the Gihon waters and to safeguard access to the city's water source.
		The Shiloah tunnel was dug along the hill, from the spring southward to the outskirts of the city.
		It channels the water from the Gihon fountainhead to the Shiloah pool, which was within the new walls of the city built by Hezekiah.
	www.antiessays.com /print.php?eid=919 (1222 words)

	Water Management in Herod's Temple
		At this spring is where David pitched his special Tabernacle [a temporary Temple or "House of God"] to house the Ark of the Covenant.
		Medieval Jews (such as the author of Jerahmeel) thought the Gihon Spring was selected by David and Solomon for the eastern entrance to the Temple to simulate in a typical manner this miraculous "Well of Miriam" (the sister of Moses) located at the same spot.
		The Talmud describes it as "the threshold of the House (or, "Temple") of David." This "House of David" was at the entrance to the Gihon Spring.
	www.askelm.com /temple/t011113.htm (9244 words)

	Home Page
		The Gihon Spring is located even today at the base of what was called the "Ophel" (a swelling of the earth in the form of a small mountain dome) once situated just to the north and abutting to "Mount Zion" (the City of David).
		As this spring is outside the city walls the residents cut channels in the stone to retain the water.
		The Gihon fountain, which is also called the fountain of the, is one of Jerusalem's earliest sources of water.
	home.att.net /~professorboris/SPECTRE/Solomon3.htm (1688 words)

	New Evidence for the Site of the Temple in Jerusalem
		The Ark of the Covenant and the Gihon Spring
		Though it is a perennial spring, it was in the past a karst-type of spring that thrusts out its water as much as five times a day in the springtime when water is plentiful (with intervals when there is no water at all).
		Spring waters were an essential part of Temple requirements and water springs are to accompany future Temples that are to be built.
	www.askelm.com /temple/t001211.htm (10268 words)

	Secrets of Gihon
		Reich's team concluded that the spring might have been located within the city walls after all -- on the lower eastern slope below the city they uncovered a fortified wall from the Middle Bronze period which may have been part of the Jebusite city.
		The Gihon Spring was channeled through two long aqueducts at various times in the city's history.
		Warren's Shaft is a vertical tunnel that gave direct access to the spring, and another of this year's findings is that it is wasn't constructed at all, but for the most part is a natural formation.
	www.exn.ca /html/templates/printstory.cfm?ID=1998072361 (674 words)

	Defending the Gihon Spring: Warren's Shaft and the Middle Bronze Towers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Over the Gihon Spring was another huge tower, the first of the two to be discovered by Reich and Shukron.
		Since the Spring Tower was built over its conduit, it must have been dug before that was built, perhaps only shortly before, as part of the whole system.
		The Bible refers to Gihon as a place: "to Gihon," "in Gihon." When David's son Adonijah had himself anointed king near Ein Rogel, a less regular spring just south of the city, David countered by commanding that Solomon be placed on his (David's) own mule and anointed "in Gihon." (Cf.
	www.netours.com /2003/first-jm-MB-water.htm (1992 words)

	Solomon's Pools near Bethlehem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In antiquity, the city relied at first on the Gihon spring, which, gushing intermittently, could provide for a few thousand people.
		There is the spring of Etam, which takes its name from a First Testament city half a mile to the east.
		Herod the Great caught the spring water in two aqueducts, parts of which are still visible at various points.
	www.netours.com /2003/sol.htm (684 words)

	The Siloam Aqueduct
		But a real engineering achievement was in digging the conduit simultaneously from two ends, especially considering the substantial distance from the spring to the reservoir and the depth from the surface of the rock to the conduit beneath.
		And when the tunnel was driven through, the quarrymen hewed (the rock), each man toward his fellow, axe against axe; and the water flowed from the spring toward the reservoir for 1,200 cubits, and the height of the rock above the head(s) of the quarrymen was 100 cubits.
		Even in modern times, with all the developed surveillance methods, road tunnels running under mountain passes, when dug from two ends with the two teams not bypassing each other, are a cause of celebration—a deviation of even a fraction of a degree would result in a failure.
	www.varchive.org /tac/siloam.htm (707 words)

	Garden of Gethsemane: base of Mt
		Gihon Spring: Siloam Road, base of City of David, down Kidron Valley.
		King Hezekiah built superb 8th-century BCE tunnel from Gihon to Pool of Siloam to channel water within his besieged city.
		Gihon is Hebrew for gushing - water gushes out depending on season and rainfall.
	www.travelnet.co.il /israel/jerusalem/g.htm (724 words)

	First Century Jerusalem - Gihon Spring (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		It was fed by waters of the Gihon Spring diver
		This abundant source of water was entirely covered over and concealed from outside the walls and was conducted by a specially built conduit to a pool within the walls where a besieged city could get all the water it needed.
		Conrad Shick in 1891 discovered an ancient surface canal that conveyed water from the Gihon Spring to the old pool of Siloam, located just within the SE extremity of the ancient city.
	www.bible-history.com /jerusalem/firstcenturyjerusalem_gihon_spring.html (268 words)

	The City of David
		The ridge had its own water resource, the Gihon spring in the Kidron Valley, and the steep valleys on three sides made a natural defense.
		The Gihon Spring ('gihon' means gushing) is perennial but trickles slowly and could not support the growing population of Solomon's capital.
		He dug another tunnel, after having cut off the water from the Gihon spring (because the spring was outside the city wall) (II Chronicles 32 and II Kings 20:20).
	www.jewishmag.com /60mag/cityofdavid/cityofdavid.htm (1799 words)

	Isaiah 22
		One of the most energetic projects was the digging of the Gihon spring tunnel through the solid rock of the hill of Ophel which resulted in the reservoir known as the pool of Siloam inside the lower city.
		The tunnel still carries water from the Gihon Spring to the pool of Siloam and it is possible for students to wade through the tunnel from Gihon to Siloam, an experience that this writer has enjoyed.
		The text commemorates the excavation of the tunnel, which connected the spring of Gihon, the principal source of water for ancient Jerusalem, with a reservoir within the city known as the pool of Siloam.
	www.ao.net /~fmoeller/22.htm (3572 words)

	Iron II Jerusalem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Hezekiah's other major public project was the building of the tunnel that stretches from the Gihon Spring to the Siloam Pool inside the city walls.
		A second tunnel was built (date uncertain) to both bring water along the lower eastern slope of the City of David for irrigation purposes and to fill the reservoirs of the Siloam Pool.
		Hezekiah's tunnel was cut through the rock underneath the City of David to bring the water of the Gihon Spring directly to the Siloam Pool without danger of outside interference.
	www.relst.uiuc.edu /Courses/106/IronIISpgs/Jerhez11.html (584 words)

	The Mikvah of the High-Priest Discovered
		Recently taken photographs in Hezekiah's tunnel in the City of David in Jerusalem prove that under the steps leading to the tunnel through which the water from the Gihon Spring runs to the City of David there are more underground spaces which were not previously known.
		Until today it had been thought that the water had streamed directly from the spring to the tunnel and then to the pool from where the water was drawn.
		This is another exciting archaeological discovery around the Temple Mount which has a deep significance for the efforts and campaign for the Temple Mount and the rebuilding of the Temple and the renewal of worship in the house of G—d by the priests and all the children of Israel.
	www.templemountfaithful.org /News/20020212.htm (692 words)

	Shiloach
		Shiloach has biblical roots and is the name applied to the waters of the Gihon spring in Isaiah 8:6.
		The "pool of Shelah" mentioned in Nehemiah 3:15 as, "lying by the king's garden" refers to the pool formed by the overflow of water in Hezekiah's tunnel, which led from the Gihon spring to the city.
		An older open channel, constructed during the reign of Solomon or earlier, carried water from the Gihon along the eastern slope of the city of David in order to irrigate the king's garden, in the kidron, valley.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Society_&_Culture/geo/Shiloach.html (243 words)

	JHOM - Rivers - Four Rivers of Paradise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The name of the second river is Gihon, the one that winds through the whole land of Cush.
		All rivers are lower in altitude than the three [Pishon, Gihon, and Hiddekel (Tigris)], and these three are lower in altitude than the Perat (Euphrates).
		Gihon is the name of a spring in a valley outside of Jerusalem, ancient Jerusalem's main water source.
	www.jhom.com /topics/rivers/eden.htm (881 words)

	[No title]
		Solomon was anointed king at the spring of Gihon.
		The waters of the spring flow through Hezekiah's tunnel to the pool of Siloam, inside the city.
		The tunnel was built about 701 BC as a defense against possible attack from the Assyrian army.
	solo21.abac.com /frodsham/Gihon%20Spring%20.htm (57 words)

	City of Toronto, City Council Legislative Documents
		Gihon Spring Drive between Mount Olive Drive and Kidron Valley Drive is a two-lane roadway; with a sidewalk on both sides of the street.
		The Toronto Catholic District School Board has confirmed that students are not required to cross Gihon Spring Drive at this location.
		Therefore, the implementation of a school bus loading zone at this location would improve traffic conditions on Gihon Spring Drive without compromising the safety of students at St. Angela Catholic School.
	www.city.toronto.on.ca /legdocs/1999/agendas/committees/et/et990715/it002.htm (562 words)

	Ohr Torah Stone - Rabbi Riskin's Shabbat Shalom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Moreover, about one hundred fifty years later King Hezekiah commanded that a tunnel be dug from the Gihon spring which would extend from beneath the City of David (the original City of Jerusalem) and would join the Gihon to the pools of the Siloah.
		It was this original Gihon Spring (or wellspring) which made the ancient City of David attractive and habitable.
		The name of the second river is the Gihon (from a root which means to skip - it skips out from between the rocks - or to make a rushing sound) which surrounds the land of Ethiopia (Genesis 2:10-13).
	www.ohrtorahstone.org.il /parsha/5764/bereishit64.htm (744 words)

	Warren's Shaft (BiblePlaces.com)
		What is clear is that this system was used to access the city's supply of water (the Gihon Spring) from inside the safety of the city walls.
		The Pool Tower was one of two (also the Spring Tower) built by the Canaanite people living in Jerusalem about 1800 B.C. These two massive towers fortified the city's water system and allowed the Jerusalemites to safely access fresh water in times of siege.
		The Pool Tower, pool, and Spring Tower were all discovered during work in preparation for the construction of a visitor's center.
	www.bibleplaces.com /warrenshaft.htm (527 words)

	KNLS Author's Journal - Humble 10
		The Gihon Spring had been Jerusalem’s water supply from time immemorial, but the spring lay outside the city wall, and if the Assyrians captured the spring, Jerusalem would be doomed.
		So Hezekiah cut a tunnel through solid rock, 1/3 of a mile long, to bring water from the Gihon Spring to the Pool of Siloam, and then he covered the spring with rocks and dirt so that the Assyrians would not know where it was.
		Hezekiah’s tunnel was discovered in 1880, and it has been cleaned out and the water again flows from the Gihon Spring to the Pool of Siloam.
	www.knls.org /English/trascripts/humble10.htm (1080 words)

	Daily Bible Study - Hezekiah's Tunnel
		A great many people were gathered, and they stopped all the springs and the brook that flowed through the land, saying, "Why should the kings of Assyria come and find much water?" (2 Chronicles 32:2-4 RSV).
		The water from the Gihon was diverted into the Gai wadi by means of a tunnel 1,740 feet (530 meters) long.
		In 1880, an inscription was discovered by a boy who was bathing in the Gihon Spring.
	www.keyway.ca /htm2002/heztun.htm (564 words)

	wfn.org \| New Archaeological Find Could Revolutionize Jerusalem History
		They say no significant artifacts have been found from David's period, nor from the time of King Solomon, David's son, who, according to the Bible, launched a massive building campaign in the city and constructed the First Temple, which was destroyed in 586 B.C. by the Babylonians.
		Archaeologists had previously believed that during the Canaanite period the spring lay in an unfortified position outside the Canaanite city walls, vulnerable to enemy attack.
		But new excavations show the spring was actually massively fortified as early as 1800 B.C. And the system of aqueducts and channels leading from the spring south along the length of the ancient city fortifications was highly sophisticated.
	www.wfn.org /1998/08/msg00056.html (675 words)

	Warren's Shaft - The Secret to David's Victory?
		In Jerusalem, the Gihon spring has been the sole source of water since the early Bronze Age.
		It is unique in that it is a pulsating spring and gushes water, instead of producing steadily flowing water.
		Hezekiah's Tunnel channels water away from the Gihon Spring into an underground tunnel beneath the city towards the Siloam Pool, on the opposite side of the city.
	www.owlnet.rice.edu /~reli205/scarlett_warren (1246 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)