Hezekiah's Pool

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Reservoir in the Old City of Jerusalem

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Hezekiah's Pool (, Brikhat Hizkiyahu), or the Patriarch's Pool, located in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, was once a reservoir forming part of the city's ancient water system.

History

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 migdal, meaning 'tower', thus it is believed that the original name was Pool of the Tower or Towers. The pool is also known as the Pool of Pillars, or the Pool of the Patriarch's Bath (Arabic: بركة حمّام البطرك Birkat Hammam el-Batrak).

The pool is believed to be the upper pool referred to in the Books of Kings (), built by King Hezekiah (f. 700 BC), who met messengers from the king of Assyria there. At a later time it was fed from the Mamilla Pool, one of the three reservoirs constructed by Herod the Great during the first century BCE by an underground conduit which still partially exists.

The pool is 240 ft by 140 ft in size, with an estimated capacity of nearly 3000000 gal. The bottom of the pool is cemented and leveled natural rock. , the pool is mostly dry and surrounded by buildings on all sides. It is used as a garbage dump.

References

References

  1. (1905). "Glimpses of Bible Lands: The Cruise of the Eight Hundred to Jerusalem". The Central Committee.
  2. Schwiki, Itzik. (February 8, 2005). "The Total Experience from Dismantling and Rebuilding Teaches that This is a Highly Dubious Way of Preservation". 02net.
  3. The Land of Israel; A Text-Book on the Physical and Historical Geography of the Holy Land Embodying the Results of Recent Research, Robert Laird Stewart, 2008. Page 178
  4. Murphy-O'Connor, Jerome. (March 20, 2008). "The Holy Land: An Oxford Archaeological Guide". Oxford University Press.

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