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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Gihon
Two waters carry the name. One is a river out of Eden that circles Cush and has never been matched to a known river. The other is Jerusalem's only natural spring, in the Kidron Valley, which Hezekiah ran underground into the city before Sennacherib's siege, and the tunnel can still be walked.
Two waters carry the name. One is a river out of Eden that circles Cush and has never been matched to a known river. The other is Jerusalem's only natural spring, in the Kidron Valley, which Hezekiah ran underground into the city before Sennacherib's siege, and the tunnel can still be walked.
Gihon is a name shared by two waters in the Old Testament. It is listed as one of the four rivers flowing out of Eden, encircling the land of Cush (Genesis 2:13), a description scholars have never matched with confidence to a known river. It is also the name of Jerusalem's only natural spring, in the Kidron Valley, whose water Hezekiah rerouted underground into the city ahead of Sennacherib's siege (2 Chronicles 32:30); the resulting tunnel is still walkable today, and the Siloam Inscription carved near its outlet by Hezekiah's workmen is one of the longest surviving inscriptions from ancient Judah.
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- Genesis 2:13
- 1 Kings 1:33
- 1 Kings 1:38
- 1 Kings 1:45
- 2 Chronicles 32:30
- 2 Chronicles 33:14
