King’s Garden
Kings Garden
SEE GARDEN.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
King’s Garden
KINGS GARDEN (2Ki 25:4, Jer 39:4; Jer 52:7, Neh 3:16).This garden was clearly near the gate of the two walls which was near the Pool of Siloam, and it was in all probability just outside the walls, being irrigated by overflow water from the Siloam tunnel and pool, just as the land in this situation is treated to-day. Indeed, the garden may have covered much the same area as is now cultivated as irrigated vegetable garden by the women of Silwn. See Kidron [Brook of], Siloam
E. W. G. Masterman.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
King’s Garden
, gan-ha-melekh): In Neh 3:15, mention is made of the pool of Shelah by the king’s garden; in 2Ki 25:4; Jer 52:7, All the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden; see also Jer 39:4. The king’s winepresses (Zec 14:10), which must have been to the extreme South of the city, were clearly in this neighborhood. The references all point to the one situation in Jerusalem where it is possible for gardens to flourish all the year round, namely, the part of the Kidron valley below the Tyropoeon which is watered by the overflow from the Pool of Siloam (see SILOAM). Here the vegetable gardens of the peasants of Siloam present an aspect of green freshness unknown elsewhere in Jerusalem.