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KINGS POOL

A pool (Heb. bĕrēḵaṯ hammeleḵ) mentioned in relation to the Fountain Gate, probably to be identified with the spring En-rogel (Bir Ayub) at the junction of the Kidron and Hinnom valleys (Neh. 2:14). Excavations by Kathleen M. Kenyon suggest that this pool is to be identified either with the still extant Pool of Siloam or the Old Pool (modern Birket el-Hamra), which was the termination point of one of two canals that flowed from the Gihon Spring down the Kidron Valley to the south. This pool must have been used to water the gardens in the valley such as the King’s Garden.

Bibliography. K. M. Kenyon, Jerusalem: Excavating 3000 Years of History (New York, 1967); W. H. Mare, The Archaeology of the Jerusalem Area (Grand Rapids, 1987).

J. Randall Price






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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