{"id":3635,"date":"2021-09-10T11:35:36","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T16:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/?p=3635"},"modified":"2025-08-28T09:06:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T14:06:59","slug":"%e8%a5%bf%e7%bd%97%e4%ba%9a%e6%b1%a0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/bible-faith\/devotional-notes\/2021\/09\/%e8%a5%bf%e7%bd%97%e4%ba%9a%e6%b1%a0\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pool of Siloam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Pool of Siloam (Hebrew: \u05d1\u05e8\u05d9\u05db\u05ea \u05d4\u05e9\u05d9\u05dc\u05d5\u05d7, “sent”) means “the pool whose waters were sent from outside the city.” The Pool of Siloam is a rock-cut pool on the southern slope of the City of David in Jerusalem, located outside the southeastern walls of the Old City. Its water came from the Gihon Spring and was transported via two aqueducts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The image above: The Pool of Siloam. (Used with permission from Holy Light Biblical Geography.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Pool of Siloam is mentioned several times in the Bible. Isaiah 8:6 mentions the pool’s waters, while Isaiah 22:9 refers to the construction of the Siloam Tunnel. In the Gospel of John, the Pool of Siloam is the site where Jesus healed a man who was born blind by putting mud and saliva on his eyes. After Jesus’ time, the Jews continued to use this pool for ritual purification until it was covered up by the Romans when they destroyed the Jewish Temple in 70 AD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, the remains of the Pool of Siloam can be seen on the southern side of Jerusalem. Archaeologists have discovered several terraced pools, a pathway leading to the pool, and a channel that connected the pool to its water source. They have also found many coins, as well as pottery and stone fragments, in the vicinity of the pool. These new discoveries are helping people understand what the Pool of Siloam looked like more than 2,000 years ago and deepen their understanding of the Bible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The image above: Water pipes running along the mountain wall, channeling water downhill beside the Pool of Siloam. (Used with permission from Holy Light Biblical Geography.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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*The image above: The ruins of the Pool of Siloam in Jerusalem, which was the largest mikvah (ritual bath) of its time. In the era of Jesus, during the seven days of the Feast of Tabernacles, a priest would go to the Pool of Siloam with a golden pitcher to draw water every morning. This ritual was an acknowledgement that the Israelites’ captivity in Babylon was because they had “rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah” (Isaiah 8:6). It was a call to repentance and to look forward to the promise of “Immanuel” (Isaiah 8:8), to “joyfully draw water from the springs of salvation” (Isaiah 12:3). Before ascending the Temple Mount for the festival, Jews would perform a ritual cleansing here. They would then walk up the steps to the Temple while chanting the Songs of Ascents (Psalms 125-129).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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The Pool of Siloam (Hebrew: \u05d1\u05e8\u05d9\u05db\u05ea \u05d4\u05e9\u05d9\u05dc\u05d5\u05d7, “sent”) means “the pool whose waters were sent from outside the city.” The Pool of Siloam is a rock-cut pool on the southern slope of the City of David in Jerusalem, located outside the southeastern walls of the Old City. Its water came from the Gihon Spring and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-devotional-notes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3635"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11680,"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635\/revisions\/11680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}