The pool of Gibeon
Gibeon is identified by inscribed jar handles from the site itself, and it has a great pool of the kind 2 Samuel and Jeremiah both mention.
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A shaft eleven metres across cut straight down through bedrock with a spiral stair around its wall, and a tunnel continuing to the water table. Jar handles from the site are stamped "Gibeon", confirming the identification. 2 Samuel sets a confrontation between Joab's men and Abner's "by the pool of Gibeon".
And they met together by the pool of Gibeon; and they sat down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side.
- Знайдено
- El-Jib (Gibeon), West Bank, 1956 — James Pritchard's excavation
- Зберігається
- In place
- Як це дійшло до нас
- Розкопане або досі стоїть там, де його збудували.
Що вона показує
Whether the biblical "pool" is this shaft or a separate reservoir on the site is discussed; both are there.
Як це використовують історики
The stamped handles make Gibeon one of the securely identified biblical towns.
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Джерела
- Pritchard, Gibeon: Where the Sun Stood Still (1962)
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