Siloam
Where Siloam sits on the map, and the 5 verses where it appears, in biblical order and linked to the full chapter.
- Coordinates
- 31.7706, 35.2350
- Mentions
- 5 mentions
Coordinates and the modern identification come from the open atlas at OpenBible.info. For regions, peoples and large features there is no identification: the marked point only places the area on the map, and stands for neither a particular site nor its boundaries.
Can you visit it today?
In 2004 sewer works uncovered the steps of the Second Temple pool, the one John names; it is being excavated in sections and only part of it is exposed. The small pool shown to visitors before that, with its minaret beside it, is Byzantine and later.
- Where it is
- At the southern foot of the City of David, where Hezekiah’s tunnel ends, beside the Silwan neighbourhood.
What to read there
The passage that gives this site its meaning, to read while you are here.
John 9, 1-11Open in the readerPassages where it appears
5 verses, in biblical order.
Nehemiah
- Nehemiah 2:14
And I continued on to the gate of the fountain, and to the aqueduct of the king. And there was no room for the beast on which I was sitting to pass through.
- Nehemiah 3:15
And Shallum, the son of Colhozeh, the leader of the district of Mizpah, built the gate of the fountain. He built it, and he covered it, and he set up its double doors and locks and bars, and the walls of the pool of Shelah at the garden of the king, and as far as the steps that descend from the City of David.
Luke
- Luke 13:4
And those eighteen upon whom the tower of Siloam fell and killed them, do you think that they also were greater transgressors than all the men living in Jerusalem?
John
- John 9:7
And he said to him: “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which is translated as: one who has been sent). Therefore, he went away and washed, and he returned, seeing.
- John 9:11
He responded: “That man who is called Jesus made clay, and he anointed my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam and wash.’ And I went, and I washed, and I see.”