Pools
berakah. Reservoir for water, whether supplied by springs or
rain (Isaiah 42:15). The drying up of the pools involved
drought and national distress. The three pools of Solomon near
Bethlehem are famous, and still supply Jerusalem with water by
an aqueduct (Ecclesiastes 2:6). Partly hewn in the rock,
partly built with masonry; all lined with ce...
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I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst
of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water,
and the dry land springs of water....
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Pools, like the tanks of India, are in many parts of Israel
and Syria the only resource for water during the dry season,
and the failure of them involves drought and calamity. Isa
42:15 Of the various pools mentioned in Scripture, perhaps the
most celebrated are the pools of Solomon near Bethlehem called
by the Arabs el-Burak, from which an aq...
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Of Samaria
1Ki 22:38
-Of Jerusalem
Upper pool
2Ki 18:17; Isa 36:2
Lower pool
Isa 22:9
Siloam (Shelah)
Ne 3:15; Joh 9:7,11
Of Heshbon
So 7:4...
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pool, pond, rez'-er-vwar, rez'-er-vwar ((1) berekhah,
"pool"; compare Arabic birkat, "pool"; compare berakhah,
"blessing," and Arabic barakat, "blessing"; (2) agham,
"pool," "marsh," "reeds"; compare Arabic 'ajam, "thicket,"
"jungle"; (3) miqwah, "reservoir," the King James Version
"ditch" (Isa 22:11); (4) miqweh, "pond," the King James
Versi...
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Solomon's Pools and the Temple Area Reservoir. Two miles south of Bethlehem there are three reservoirs of water that have for centuries been called Solomon's Pools, because it is generally believed that he originally constructed them. Josephus indicated that it was probably Pontius Pilate who rebuilt and enlarged them. Water from these pools was br...
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The Pool of Bethesda is to be found just inside the Eastern wall, between St. Stephen's Gate and the Northern wall of the temple enclosure. It was here that many sick ones bathed in CHRIST's time, believing its waters had healing properties. It was here CHRIST healed the impotent man (John 5). [Manners And Customs of Bible Lands]...
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The Pool of the Sultan lies just outside the Southwestern comer of the wall in this same valley. [Manners And Customs of Bible Lands]...
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Other pools located in and around the city that have supplied water include the Pool of Hezekiah, located inside the walls and fed with water through an underground conduit from the Pool of Mamilla. This latter pool lies 2000 feet to the west of Jaffa Gate outside the walls, and is in the Valley of Hinnom and receives drainage water coming down tha...
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King Hezekiah constructed a conduit or tunnel from this spring through the rock underneath the city to a place in the Tyropean Valley, where a reservoir was constructed to receive the water (II Kings 20:20). This reservoir has gone by the name of The Pool of Siloam. This water project was undertaken mainly to give the city a water supply in time of...
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