Identifier: holylandbible01geikuoft (find matches)
Title: The Holy Land and the Bible;
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Geikie, John C. (John Cunningham), 1824-1906
Subjects: Bible Palestine -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ards west of the Joppa Gate, from which point itruns underground. This seems to be the reservoir which Hezekiahconstructed when he made a pool and a conduit, and stopped theupper water-course of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the westside of the city of David,* and digged the hard rock with iron, andmade wells for water. ^ Its south side is separated only by a line ofhouses from the street; the Coptic monastery is at its northern end,and at a little distance to the north-west is the Church of the HolySepulchre, with its high dome and its unfinished tower. The housesbordering tlic )iool are of all heights; one with a sloping roof and aprojecting rickety balcony, just above the water; another, roofed in 1 It is an irregular parallelograiii. measuring on the west 536 yards; on the east, 512 yards: onthe north. 348 vards; on tlie soutli, 309 yards. 2 Mieali iii. 12. 3 Tiie respective lieiglits are 2,440leet and 2,663feet. 4 2 Kings xx. 20; 2 Chron. xxxii. 30. 5 Eeclus. xlviii. 17.
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And Hezekiah had exceed-\n^ uiucli riclies and lionor :and he made himself treas-uries for silver and for gold. storehouses also for the increase of cornand wine and oil ; and stallsfor all manner of beasts, andcotes for flocks. Moreover heprovided him cities and pos-sessions of flocks and herds inabundance : for God had givenhim substance ver)^ much. This same Hezekiah alsostopped the upper water-course of Gilion. and broughtit straight down to the westside of the city of David. AndHezekiah prospered in all hisworks.—2 Chvonicles xxxii.37-30. HEZEKIAHS POOL (See page X>il) JEBUSALEM. 293 the same way, but more than a story higher, with a square woodenchamber, supported by slanting beams, built out, partly, it would seem,to let the inmates drop a bucket through a hole in the floor, to thewater. A frame of poles covered one flat roof, to serve as support fora mat awning in the hot months, a wooden railing acting as parapeton the pool side ; projecting windows, larger or smaller, w

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