 | 1886 - 194 pàgines
...inscription in it were executed in the reign of Hezekiah. According to the Chronicler (2 Chr. xxxii. 30), Hezekiah "stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of DATE OF THE INSCRIPTION. 89 the city of David," and we read in 2 Kings xx. 20, that "he... | |
 | Jason Nelson Fradenburgh - 1886 - 488 pàgines
...of 1,200 cubits. And (part) of a cubit was the height of the rock over the head of the excavators." Hezekiah "stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David," and " he made a pool and a conduit, and brought water into the city."... | |
 | James Hammond Trumbull - 1886 - 802 pàgines
...eminently suggestive, and suitable to the time. Its text was the passage: "This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper water-course of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works." In it he especially disclaimed... | |
 | Cunningham Geikie - 1888 - 582 pàgines
...This seems to be the reservoir which Ilezekiah constructed when he " made a pool and a conduit, and stopped the upper water-course of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David,"2 and " digged the hard rock with iron, and made wells for water."3... | |
 | Edward Livingston Wilson - 1890 - 426 pàgines
...mountain apart, and was transfigured before them. — Matthew xvii. 1-2. 713. This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his wo-ks.. —2 Chronicles xxxii. 30.... | |
 | William Smith - 1890 - 1000 pàgines
...probably went down the Tyropoeon, that Hezekiah turned the waters on the other side of the city, when he " stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David " (2 C'hr. xxxii. 30). The rush of water down these conduits is referred... | |
 | J. G. Kitchin - 1890 - 106 pàgines
...pierced. The prevalent opinion of scholars is that the tunnel was made in the reign of Hezekiah, who " stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David" (2 Chron. xxxii. 30).* The difficulties of exploring the tunnel and... | |
 | Sir William Smith - 1892 - 996 pàgines
...probably went down the Tyropœon, that Hezekiah turned the waters on the other side of the city, when he "stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David" (3 Uhr xxxii. 30). The rush of water down these conduite is referred... | |
 | 1893 - 984 pàgines
...had taken the trouble to consult his Bible, he would have read as follows : " This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David.'1 * The spurious Hezekiah's Pool is not in the city of David, and is... | |
 | Archibald Henry Sayce - 1894 - 610 pàgines
...that the tunnel of Siloam was the work of that king. It is said of him (2 Chr. xxxii. 30) that he " stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David " ; we are further told (2 Kings xx. 20) that " he made a pool and a... | |
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This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. 
