Yet another stunning archaeological discovery, which dramatically affects the Bible, was
announced within the past two weeks!
John 9:1-7
John 9
1And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.
2And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he
was born blind?
3Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God
should be made manifest in him.
4I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man
can work.
5As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
6When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he
anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,
7And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He
went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.
Internet Resource: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+9&version=KJV
The exact location of the Siloam Pool in Jerusalem has been located and verified. This
means that another important reference in the Bible is supported by archaeological study.
There are three Siloam pools in Jerusalem's history and they are all three referenced in the
Bible. Two are in the Old Testament and one is the pool referenced above in John 9:7. The
exact locations of the two Siloam Pools from the Old Testament are not known.
The first Siloam Pool is documented in 2 Kings 20:20.
And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a
conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of Judah?
The "conduit" above refers to Hezekiah's Tunnel, which he built to secure Jerusalem's water
supply from attack. It ran for 1,750 feet under the ridge on which the City of David lay,
from the Gihon Spring to the "pool" (Siloam Pool).
The second Siloam Pool is documented in Nehemiah 3:15.
But the gate of the fountain repaired Shallun the son of Colhozeh, the ruler of part of
Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the
bars thereof, and the wall of the pool of Siloah by the king's garden, and unto the stairs that
go down from the city of David.
The "pool of Siloah" is the Siloam Pool.
All three of the Siloam Pools were in slightly different locations, though they were all fed by
Hezekiah's tunnel from the Gihon spring.
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