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Pools of Solomon: The name given to three large open cisterns at Etam, at the head of
the Wady Urtas, having an average length of 400 feet by 220 in
breadth, and 20 to 30 in depth. These pools derive their chief supply
of water from a spring called "the sealed fountain," about 200 yards
to the north-west of the upper pool, to which it is conveyed by a
large subterranean passage. They are 150 feet distant from each other,
and each pool is 20 feet lower than that above it, the conduits being
so arranged that the lowest, which is the largest and finest of the
three, is filled first, and then in succession the others. It has been
estimated that these pools cover in all a space of about 7 acres, and
are capable of containing three million gallons of water. They were,
as is generally supposed, constructed in the days of Solomon. They are
probably referred to in
(Ecclesiastes 2:6) On the fourth day after his
victory over the Ammonites, etc., in the wilderness of Tekoa,
Jehoshaphat assembled his army in the valley of Berachah ("blessing"),
and there blessed the Lord. Berachah has been identified with the
modern Bereikut, some 5 miles south of Wady Urtas, and hence the
"valley of Berachah" may be this valley of pools, for the word means
both "blessing" and "pools;" and it has been supposed, therefore, that
this victory was celebrated beside Solomon's pools
(2 Chronicles 20:26)
These pools were primarily designed to supply Jerusalem with water.
From the lower pool an aqueduct has been traced conveying the water
through Bethlehem and across the valley of Gihon, and along the west
slope of the Tyropoeon valley, till it finds its way into the great
cisterns underneath the temple hill. The water, however, from the
pools reaches now only to Bethlehem. The aqueduct beyond this has been
destroyed.
