. A dictionary of the Bible .. . ools; hardlythe sixth part of the Birkct el-Mamilla; hardly thetenth of tlie Birket-cs-Sidtan, or of the lowest ofthe three pools of Solomon at El-Burak. Yet itis a sacred spot, even to the Moslem ; much moreto the Jew ; for not only from it was the watertaken at the Feast of Tabernacles, but the waterfor the ashes of the red heifer (Dachs Talm. ). Jewish tradition makes Gihon and Siloamone (Lightfoot, Cent. Chor. in Matt. p. 51 ;Schwarz, p. 265), as if Gihon were the burst-ing forth (n*!, to break out), and Siloam thereceptacle of the waters sent. If
. A dictionary of the Bible .. . ools; hardlythe sixth part of the Birkct el-Mamilla; hardly thetenth of tlie Birket-cs-Sidtan, or of the lowest ofthe three pools of Solomon at El-Burak. Yet itis a sacred spot, even to the Moslem ; much moreto the Jew ; for not only from it was the watertaken at the Feast of Tabernacles, but the waterfor the ashes of the red heifer (Dachs Talm. ). Jewish tradition makes Gihon and Siloamone (Lightfoot, Cent. Chor. in Matt. p. 51 ;Schwarz, p. 265), as if Gihon were the burst-ing forth (n*!, to break out), and Siloam thereceptacle of the waters sent. If this were thecase, it might be into Siloam, through one of themany subterranean aqueducts with which Jerusa-lem abounds, and one of which probably went downthe Tyropoeon, that Hezekiah turned the waters onthe other side of the city, when he stopped theupper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straightdown to the west side of the city of David (2Chr. xxxii. 30). The rush of water down these conduits is referred SILOAM 131i ^%^*^. The Village of Silv:&n (Siloam). and the lower pan of the Valley of the Kedron, shewing the Kings gardens, which are watereijby the Pool. The background is the highlands of Judah. The view is from a Photogi-aph by James Graham, Esq., taken frombeneath the S. wall of the Uaram. to by Jerome ( per terrainim concava et antrasaxi durissimi cum magno soiiitu venit, In. 6), as heard in his day, showing that thewater was more abundant tiien than now. Theintermittent character of Siloam is noticed byhim; but in a locality perforated by so manyaqueducts, and supplied by so many large wellsand secret springs (not to speak of the discharge ofthe great city-baths), this irregular flow is easilyaccounted for, both by the direct and the siphonicaction of the water. How this natiiral intermit-tency of Siloam could be made identical with themiraculous troubling of Bethesda (John v. 4) onedoes not see. The lack of water in the pool nowis no proof that th
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