John Gill's Exposition on 2 Chronicles 32:30

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper water course of Gihon, etc.] Which Procopius Gazeus says was the same with Siloam, and which it seems had two streams, and this was the upper one; Mr. Maundrell says f138, the pool of Gihon “lies about two furlongs without Bethlehem gate westward; it is a stately pool, one hundred and six paces long, and sixty seven broad, and lined with wall and plaster, and was, when we were there, well stored with water:” and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David; through canals under the plain of the city of David; as the Targum, by a subterraneous passage; and Siloam, as Dr. Lightfoot f139 observes from Josephus, was behind the west wall, not far from the corner that pointed toward the southwest: and Hezekiah prospered in all his works; natural, civil, and religious, (<143121>2 Chronicles 31:21).

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