Archaeological excavations at the Pool of Siloam, City of David Jerusalem: Snapshots from August 23
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The Pool of Siloam, where Jesus is said to have healed a blind man, will soon be opened to the public for the first time after approximately two thousand years.
The pool, located in the southern part of the City of David archaeological site in Jerusalem, is cherished by Christians and Jews.
It is currently being excavated by archaeologists and will either be opened to the public piece by piece or once the entire site is unearthed.
Plans to open up the Pool of Siloam were announced just before the new year by the Israel Antiquities Authority, the Israel National Parks Authority and the City of David Foundation.
The site was built around 2,700 years ago as part of Jerusalem’s water system in the eighth century B.C. It served as a reservoir for the Gihon Spring from which water was diverted and stored in underground tunnels.
The reference about Jesus and the pool is mentioned in the New Testament’s John 9. It reads: “He told him, ‘Go, wash in the Pool of Siloam.’ So the man went and washed, and came back seeing.”
Traditionally, the Christian site of the Pool of Siloam was the pool and church that were built by the Byzantine empress Eudocia (c. 400-460 A.D.) to commemorate the miracle recounted in the New Testament. However, the exact location of the original pool as it existed during the time of Jesus remained a mystery until June 2004.
During construction work to repair a large water pipe south of Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, at the southern end of the ridge known as the City of David, archaeologists Ronny Reich and Eli Shukron identified two ancient stone steps. Further excavation revealed that they were part of a monumental pool from the Second Temple period, the period during which Jesus lived.
The structure Reich and Shukron discovered was 225 feet long, with corners that are slightly greater than ninety degrees, indicating a trapezoidal shape, with the widening end oriented toward Tyropoeon Valley.
What was the function of the Pool of Siloam during Jesus’ time?
Because the pool is fed by waters from the Gihon Spring, located in the Kidron Valley, the naturally flowing spring water would have qualified the pool for use as a mikveh, a bath used for the purpose of ritual immersion in Judaism to achieve ritual purity.
However, it could also have been an important source of fresh water for the inhabitants in that part of the city. One scholar has even suggested that it was a Roman-style swimming pool.
Whatever its original purpose, the Siloam Pool, where Jesus healed the blind man, is an important Christian site, and its discovery represents a watershed moment in the field of Biblical archaeology.
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Thank you Tzahi for showing us these incredible excavation.
So many historical layers in Holy Holy Holy Jerusalem 🙏🏽✝️💛💛💛
Amazing finds in the ancient City of David. Awesome.
Thank you for showing us this historic place !
Thank you so much for this video Zahi!!! Its so exciting to see how far along they have come!! Love love love it!!!! God bless and Shalom!!💙🇮🇱💙
Praise God.Hallelujah!!!
THANK YOU FOR TAKING TIME TO SHARE WITH THE WORLD! THIS IS AN INCREDIBLE DISCOVERY! CHRISTIAN FROM AMERICA!
Thank you for your time with us and sharing this, B"H, that you keep up this work and share what had been done and found.😊
Love your videos of the beautiful land of Israel. Thank you 😊
thankyou for this great update
Thank you!
Zahi ! So nice to see and hear you! Awesome job as always ❤ shalom
Thanks so much for sharing this. We toured here in late February, just after the excavations started. What wonderful progress!
Thanks Zahi
Awesome thank you
Incredible!!! I’ve wondered about this, since I was there, October/November 2022! I knew they would be excavating, but had no idea this huge stairs was just to the left of where I walked and sat on the steps at the top!!!
Yes thank you for this! I love everything about Jerusalem, and I’m so grateful to find videos that you do!! God Bless you!!
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Zahi thank you for making these amazing, informative and beautiful videos. Sometimes I go back and watch some that I have already seen to refresh my memory and get all of the information. Shalom from USA.
Glad you like them!
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Thank you Jesus 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Nothing to do with Jesus !!!
@@ilanakatz3306 Yes it does, the Messiah would come before the destruction of the 2nd Temple. And guess what that's the Lord Jesus Christ, He came before the 2nd temple was destroyed. And in the future there will be a 3rd temple built, just as the Bible more specifically the New Testament says.
We were there in February, and it is amazing to now see the stairs which were still buried at that time
thanks for sharing
Thank you so much Zahi for this amazing video every inch in Jerusalem is HOLY and you are always blessed making so much effort for your mission, Shalom.
This is so amazing and beautiful. Thank you Hashem for this and thank you for your Salvation.
Fascinating and so touching indeed !! thank you Zahi, God bless you !✌🙏✨
Thank you Zahi, I'll need to buy you more coffee.
Thank you
Tzahi💫thank you for showing us the continued excavations@Pool of Siloam💫This is amazing&exciting🌟🌺Shalom Brother💙🙏👐
Zahi again we see history in the making as well as history of times gone by. You kept your promise to update us on these excavations for which we are so grateful my brother. God bless you Zahi and all our family. David
Such a wonderful video. I have wanted to go to Israel to see all the new findings since I was there in 1998. your video and commentary makes me feel as if I was right beside you. Thank you for posting!!
Thank you for keeping us updated on this. Have a blessed.
Amazing......Israel is wonderful
This makes my spirit leap! 💙Thank you for the update. I would love to see before pics in your next videos (to compare). I was there last year before excavation. I love seeing the progress.
Thank you for this exclusive video... RMB ITS NOT OPENED FOR THE PUBLIC thank you very much ❤🎉🎉🎉🎉
History in the making, what exciting stuff ! Thank you for sharing this with us, dear Zahi !
Wow. Fast progress
Thank you brother for showing the escavation sites. These sites takes our mind to the time of the biblical olden days.Very grateful for your enlightening videos
Thank you very very very much Zahi…………your video is always nice
Great to see you. Thank you for the update
Thank you brother Zahi for the wonderful video.
Спасибо! Прекрасная работа!!!👍👏👏👏👏💥 Удачи!!!💝
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I am so thankful you are back. and most of your vids are restored. Thank you for showing me, who will probably never be able to visit, your wonderful country.
Thank you so much for this video.
Thank you Zahi ❤
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Great update for this major discovery! It still amazes me that, in so many parts of the world, sites of huge cultural and religious importance to the people of the area are inexplicably forgotten about and covered up by later activity. How does that happen? I've never understood that phenomenon.
Thank you for showing
Very interesting vert good discovery! Thank you Zahi ,,thank you,,,,God is great!
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So much history. Thank you for showing it.
Blessed are the meek..God is good, amen.
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Amen
excitinting thanks for a great video as always
Syallom my brother zahi
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How exciting !!
The unique aspect of an archeologist is that they will tell you what they have discovered and expect you to believe it.
Thank you Zahi. I have been looking forward to what they find if anything. It was a pool after all. Not much would be found.
You can climb up...Im not going to do that not this time😂😂 new subscriber here love the video....are there any drawings symbols or writing on any of these uncovered stoneways? Cant wait to watch your other videos! So exciting I would love to be an archeologist there. 😊 Thanks for sharing everything with us all. God Bless 🕊
Thanks Tzahi, chaver, for us, Netsarim, who accept Yeshua has the Mashiach it is very important. Shalom Shalom.
SHALOM ZAHI ДЯКУЮ ВАМ ЗА ВІДЕО МИРУ БОЖОГО ВІЧНОГО ЄРУСАЛИМУ І ВСЬОМУ БОЖОМУ НАРОДУ ІЗРАІЛЮ У ВЕЛИКІЙ ЛЮБОВІ І МИЛОСТІ ВСЕВИШНЬОГО В СПАСІННІ ВІЧНОМУ В ГОСПОДІ І СПАСИТЕЛІ НАШОМУ ІСУСІ ХРИСТІ МАШИАХУ АМІНЬ AMEN
"Wide, short, wide, short, wide..." Modesty is kept for all as they ascend from the mikvah to the Temple. No one's "nakedness" is revealed to another. (Exodus 20:26)
Our Jusess is Lord of Lord
Thank you for another inspiring video ,always something new to see in my second homeland,SHALOM ZAHI
Wow so much has changed since my visit in 2018...would love to walk thru those awesome places again... Shalom
Amazing excavations! ⛏🧺🔦
This is so exciting. Amazing times. 🙏❤️💪
Shalom ZAHI
Great video 🙏🏻🕎
Thank you for showing this excavation! So amazing the hot dry desert air keeps history so well.!
Thank you for your work. Zahi, Shalom Brother may Father Grace your endeavors to all his children.
I so enjoy knowing what the latest is in excavations. Thanks as usual.
Shalom Zahi,, It's great 👍 to see 👀 them the workers excavators digging and finding more history as we walk by at times🚶🚶🚶 the pool Max says Israel 🇮🇱🌴☀️🐫 needs a pool when it's Hot 🥵 so we can swim🩳🎽.. Going to the beach 🏖️ isn't always the right time..We love the History.. Todah..
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Snapshots from August 23 in Israël, today is only August 07 in Brussels.
Definitely, Israël precedes us in all areas...
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Best Upload , The Bible History Place ( Siloam Pool ) In Jerusalem City* At _ August 2023' _ God Bless All , _ Thanks to, - Zahi Shaked Israel Guide Tour* Channel, ..... Cheerio.*****.
It's so cool that we can look back in time, 2000 years back in time! What are they going to do with it once totally done excavating it?
Pls give every week or month update on this
I need to work too, you know
Thank you for sharing! I have never heard about the Messiah needing to be anointed with the water from Jerusalem. Could you please explain that? Thank you!
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messiah
Where can I get the big picture that you showed in the entrance of the túnel?
Maybe at City of David shop
So are these Micveh's that they are uncovering deeper than where the Siloam pool used to be? Does that mean they are older than Siloam pool? Have the stones of the original Siloam pool been repurposed for other uses? Is that why they can't find the base of the pool? Thanks
8 century BC - it's used as a water pool. From first century BC- It was used as A Mikkva
What are your thoughts about Solomon's Temple being in the city of David and not up where the dome is?
The Tample Mounr was part of City Of David
9:28 Someone needs to get ahold of person in charge of the location and tell them to replace the glass they have with better glass or plastic windows to see thru better. Because i think they just used what was more durable. But now they should see that its not that clear for the tourists to see. So someone needs to push them to use better options. Im no window or glass or plastic expert, but i know they have to have a better option then what they using there. Maybe it costs more, but it will be worth it in the long run. Imagine perfectly clear glass or plastic. Maybe its clearer in real life. But from what i see, it seems like its fogged up or scratched and not clear. So yes, i hope someone can get a hold of someone in charge there to let them know to make the place better. I bet if i did some research im sure they can find something better that does not scratch or fog up and stays clear. Or maybe not, but this is what im thinking. Great amazing video as usual, we all love to see them. 🙏🏼
PS: Maybe they can hand a broom brush of some sort tide to the wall by rope so people can use to brush the dust away to see down better also, because people walking will bring dust on top of the glass. So yeah , i had to mention this also.
Question, why would the purification pool be so far away from the temple? What happened if you became impure before you made it to the temple mount, did you have to go back and repurify yourself? The location of the Pool Of Silom is one of the FEW reasonable arguments for the Temple being in the city of David.
Next to the temple there are dozens of mikvahs, but they are small. This pool is the result of Jerusalem's only water source. This is taking advantage of the place where many can purify their bodies. It is also the source of the water in which the kings of Israel were consecrated.
@@zahishaked Questions where there some kind of pumps and filters to keep the water clean as well as circulating? You would think with that many people the water would become filthy very quickly, I am interested to know how they overcame this in ancient times.
you have the kindest eyes I have seen for some time, do you believe in Jesus Christ?
I do the Lord Jesus is my Lord and Saviour, God bless
Where is the spring that Field the bath ?
Look for City of David videos on my UA-cam channel and you will see it
I f8nd this to be very interesting. But I'm curious, if they plan on rebuilding the temple, what will happen to these artifacts? They will be covered up because of the increase in size of the new temple. I know that the original grounds will be basically the same size but the walls will overtake alot more land. I heard talk about it will be much smaller than what Ezekiel spoke about. But than it won't be built to the profits dimension. So I believe it will be built to the exact same size as what Ezekiel spoke about.
As of now, apart from a small minority, there are no plans to build the temple
@zahishaked are there any updates to the Archeological excavations at the Pool of Siloam for 2024 ? 💙
Because of the war I didn't visit it
@@zahishaked I understand, thank you Zahi ♥️🇺🇸🤍🇮🇱💙
What about the Tears of Zedekiah, is that not also a spring in Jerusalem
No. Look for the video of it on my UA-cam channel
Have they found the horn and the oil to anoint Mashiach?
Not yet
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I'm sure you meant well, but the sound was poor.
I checked it again, the sound is wonderful. Please check your device. Big Love
@@zahishaked My device no problem. We may differ as to what wonderful means.
Amazing finds, but at the cost of complete destruction of a beautiful orchard and displacing a family. Could not some arrangement been made to excavate part and preserve part of the orchard?
It's belong to Israel and it's one of the most important places for Jews and Christians and I'm happy that they are digging there.
@@zahishaked AMEN and shalom - I JUST found you - Lord directed me here. Have never been to Israel - praying God gets me and husband there next year. God bless you, sir! and Thank you for your excellent presentation and hard humble work!
8:11 That the steps of the stairs are wide and short could be related to the law of physics about Work, W=F×s×cos(a). When you make the stairs wide, you don't have to go against the gravity all the time, which makes it easier to walk these stairs. Especially maybe for the elderly so they do not end up at the top of the stairs gasping for their breath. It is also one of God's commands that you should not do any Work (W) on the Shabbat. So maybe that could have something to do with it as well. Making the steps alternatingly wide and short makes the path also less steep but longer. In addition, according to this law of physics, walking orthogonal to the Force (F), which is gravity, makes you according to this law of physics not to do any work (W) because cos(90 degrees) = zero. So there you go.
P.S, in addition if someone would loose his or her balance and fall on these stairs the wide step would probably break his or her fall, opposite to stairs with small steps where the fall may continue all the way down, and when many people walk these stairs at the same time, what would happen to the others when one would fall down? So there you go again, stairs like these have many advantages, and are safer as well.
P.P.S, So, I have been thinking about this some more, and there is yet an other explanation for this. When you do not want to make the slope too steep, you need to cover a longer distance to reach the same height. If you now divide this height by the height of one stair step, you will know how many steps you need. And this number is constant and independent of the slope, because you need to climb the same height. But when you make the slope less steep, you need to divide the same amount of steps over a longer distance. As a consequence of this, the steps will be further apart the more you make the slope less steep. And so, when the steps need to be further apart, you already get this pattern all by itself. That's it, and kind regads from Nehemiah who rebuilt Jerusalem with the help of his friends, and from king Salomon who built God's temple with the help of his friends.
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Too bad the rest of the pool isn't there. Do they know what happened to it? Dug up and destroyed sometime in the past I assume.
We don't know yet
The sulaiman temple must be beside or near the pool.
Then..... No
Sorry, it is very difficult for me to understand the English of this archaeologist.
Is this where the angel would stir the water and someone could be healed? If it is filled with water again, would the angel come back?
No, here Jesus healed the blind man. You are talking about Bethasda pools. Please look for it on my UA-cam site
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Had a hard time understanding your accent is very thick, even with CC generator it still misses your words. Try speaking slower in your vids next time, I know English isn't your first language so it's ok, but maybe you could subtitle it instead yourself.
Thank you for your advice. Inside the church it was difficult to talk. If you have the some problem with other videos of mine, please inform me please