Gihon in Biblical History

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What is Gihon?
GI'HON
(fountain, or stream). 1. The name of the second river of Eden, Gen 2:13. Some identify it with the Nile. See Eden. 2. A place near Jerusalem where Solomon was proclaimed king, 1 Kgs 1:33-45. Hezekiah stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and Manasseh built a wall on the west side of Gihon in the valley. 2 Chr 32:30; 2 Chr 33:14. Upper Gihon has been identified by some with Birket Mamilla, 150 rods west of the wall of Jerusalem, which is a pool 300 feet long, 200 wide, and 20 deep. Lower Gihon is supposed to have been the same as Birket es-Sultan, south-west of the Jaffa gate, a pool 600 feet long, 250 broad, and 40 deep. Warren, however, proposes the Pool of the Bath or Hezekiah as the Lower Gihon, the valley being that from the Jaffa gate to the temple-site, now filled up, while Grove and Conder favor the pool Siloam as the site of Gihon. See Jerusalem.

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