In an article today, archaeologists have discovered that the tunnel of Siloam in Jerusalem exists, and feeds into the Pool of Siloam.
The Pool of Siloam, discovered in 2004 (Photo: Todd Bolen/BiblePlaces.com)
Why is this important? The Pool of Siloam is referenced in the Bible as the place where Jesus healed the blind man:
(The Book of John)
{9:1} And as [Jesus] passed by, he saw a man which was blind from [his] birth.
{9:2} And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?
{9:3} Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the
works of God should be made manifest in him.
{9:4} I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
{9:5} As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
{9:6} When 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,
{9:7} And 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.
What reinforces the Bible’s validity that this IS the Pool of Siloam is an event that occured in the Old Testament, hundreds of years before Jesus came to the pool. King Hezekiah dug a tunnel to feed the pool, anticipating a siege against Jerusalem by the Assyrian monarch Sennacherib:
(2nd Chronicles)
{32:1} After these things, and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to win them for himself.
{32:2} And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem,
{32:3} He took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains which [were] without the city: and they did help him.
{32:4} So there was gathered much people together, who stopped all the fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?
(2nd 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?
It is always amazing to me how we choose to believe things we cannot see but take by faith scientists and humanists viewpoint, and yet even as every year more and more evidence emerges from the ruins of Jerusalem that shows everything in the Bible was REAL, and the characters EXISTED, and that you have to make a decision on what to believe…as for me, I will always believe the God of the Bible.
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