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God, Science and the Bible

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by Mario Seiglie, Tom Robinson and Scott Ashley

Jerusalem 's Pool of Siloam yields more secrets

In John 9:7 Jesus told a blind man to "wash in the pool of Siloam" to be healed. The March-April 2005 Good News described archaeologists' discovery of this very pool ("Archaeologists discover biblical Pool of Siloam," p. 16). Subsequent excavations in the area have begun to yield more secrets, possibly including the discovery of another, much older pool mentioned in the Bible.

At one end of the steps descending to the Pool of Siloam archaeologists dug a shaft to learn what lay beneath it. According to reports from the Israel Antiquities Authority, there they found remains of a much earlier pool tentatively identified as the one mentioned in Nehemiah 3:15.

Describing the repairs to the city wall initiated by Nehemiah in the fifth century B.C., this passage states: "Shallun . . . repaired the wall of the Pool of Shelah by the King's Garden, as far as the stairs that go down from the City of David ."

The newly discovered pool fits this geographic description very well. The area of "the King's Garden," also mentioned in connection with King Zedekiah's attempted escape from the Babylonians recorded in Jeremiah 39:4-5 and 2 Kings 25:4-5, is thought to be the unexcavated orchard and garden, owned by the Greek Orthodox Church, part of which currently overlays most of the Pool of Siloam.

Read the full article at www.gnmagazine.org/issues/gn62/science62.htm


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