Everything about Siloam totally explained
Siloam (Hebrew:
Shiloah) (Arabic:
Silwan) is a neighborhood in
East Jerusalem, south of the
Old City.
Antiquity
The ancient community was built around the "
serpent-stone",
Zoheleth, where
Adonijah gave his feast in the time of
Solomon. Siloam is the site of the
Pool of Siloam, where
Jesus healed a man blind from birth as described in the
Gospel of John, and the legendary
Tower of Siloam, whose collapse is an omen in the
Gospel of Luke.
Inscription
The
Siloam inscription was discovered in the
water tunnel built during the reign of
Hezekiah, in the early
7th century BCE. The Siloam inscription is now preserved in the Archeological Museum of Istanbul, Turkey.
Commemoration
Biblical Siloam has been honored, for its healing pool, in the names of many
Baptist churches and is commemorated by the US towns of:
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