GIHON

Passages on this topic · 19

• Genesis 2:13

  The name of the second river is Gihon. It is the same river that flows through the whole land of Cush.

• 1 Kings 1:33

  The king said to them, “Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride on my own mule, and bring him down to Gihon.

• 1 Kings 1:38

  So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites went down and had Solomon ride on king David’s mule, and brought him to Gihon.

• 1 Kings 1:45

  Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon. They have come up from there rejoicing, so that the city rang again. This is the noise that you have heard.

• 2 Chronicles 32:4

  So, many people gathered together and they stopped all the springs and the brook that flowed through the middle of the land, saying, “Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find abundant water?”

• 2 Chronicles 32:30

  This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper spring of the waters of Gihon, and brought them straight down on the west side of David’s city. Hezekiah prospered in all his works.

• 2 Chronicles 33:14

  Now after this, he built an outer wall to David’s city, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate. He encircled Ophel with it, and raised it up to a very great height; and he put valiant captains in all the fortified cities of Judah.

• Nehemiah 2:13

  I went out by night by the valley gate, even toward the jackal’s well, then to the dung gate, and inspected the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and its gates were consumed with fire.

• Nehemiah 2:14

  Then I went on to the spring gate and to the king’s pool, but there was no place for the animal that was under me to pass.

• Nehemiah 2:15

  Then went I up in the night by the brook, and inspected the wall; and I turned back, and entered by the valley gate, and so returned.

• Nehemiah 3:13

  Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah repaired the valley gate. They built it, and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars, and one thousand cubits of the wall to the dung gate.

• Nehemiah 3:14

  Malchijah the son of Rechab, the ruler of the district of Beth Haccherem repaired the dung gate. He built it, and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars.

• Nehemiah 3:15

  Shallun the son of Colhozeh, the ruler of the district of Mizpah repaired the spring gate. He built it, and covered it, and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars, and the wall of the pool of Shelah by the king’s garden, even to the stairs that go down from David’s city.

• Nehemiah 3:16

  After him, Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of half the district of Beth Zur, made repairs to the place opposite the tombs of David, and to the pool that was made, and to the house of the mighty men.

• Isaiah 7:3

  Then Yahweh said to Isaiah, “Go out now to meet Ahaz, you, and Shearjashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, on the highway of the fuller’s field.

• Isaiah 22:9

  You saw the breaches of David’s city, that they were many; and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool.

• Isaiah 22:10

  You counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall.

• Isaiah 22:11

  You also made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you didn’t look to him who had done this, neither did you have respect for him who purposed it long ago.

• Isaiah 36:2

  The king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to king Hezekiah with a large army. He stood by the aqueduct from the upper pool in the fuller’s field highway.