2Ki 18:17, 20:20, 2Ch 32:30, Neh 3:15 | TSK | STEP | A.M. 3294. B.C. 710. the king. Tartan.Calmet remarks, that these are not the names of persons, but of offices: {Tartan} signifies "he who presides over gifts or tribute;" {Rabsaris,} "the chief of the eunuchs;" and {Rabshakeh,} "the chief cup-bearer." great. Heb. heavy. the conduit of the upper pool.If the Fuller's field were near En-Rogel, or the Fuller's fountain, east of Jerusalem, as is generally supposed, then the conduit of the upper pool may been an aqueduct that brought the water from the upper or eastern reservoir of that fountain, which had been seized in order to distress the city.

2 Kings 18:17

A.M. 3294. B.C. 710. the king.

Tartan.Calmet remarks, that these are not the names of persons, but of offices: {Tartan} signifies "he who presides over gifts or tribute;" {Rabsaris,} "the chief of the eunuchs;" and {Rabshakeh,} "the chief cup-bearer."

great. Heb. heavy. the conduit of the upper pool.If the Fuller's field were near En-Rogel, or the Fuller's fountain, east of Jerusalem, as is generally supposed, then the conduit of the upper pool may been an aqueduct that brought the water from the upper or eastern reservoir of that fountain, which had been seized in order to distress the city.

20:20; Isa 7:3; 22:9-11; 36:2

2 Kings 20:20

he made a pool.

2Ch 32:4,30,32; Ne 3:16; Isa 22:9-11

the book.

8:23; 15:6,26; 16:19; 1Ki 14:19; 15:7,23

2 Chronicles 32:30

Hezekiah.Or, "Hezekiah stopped the upper going out ({motza,} i.e., the egress into the open air,) of the waters of Gihon, and brought them underneath, ({lemattah,} by a subterraneous course,) to the west of the city of David:" See Note on 1 Ki 1:45.

stopped.

4; Isa 22:9-11

Gihon.

1Ki 1:33,38,45

And Hezekiah.

Jos 1:7,8; Ps 1:1-3

Nehemiah 3:15

the gate.

2:14; 12:37; 2Ch 32:30

the ruler.

9,12,14

Mizpah.

7; Jud 20:1,3

Mizpeh.

Jer 40:6

Siloah.Siloah was situated under the eastern wall of Jerusalem, between that city and the brook Kedron, and is described by Chateaubriand as lying at the foot of Mount Zion. Dr. Richardson represents the pool of Siloam as occurring higher up the valley of Jehoshaphat, towards the north, than the well of Nehemiah, a little beyond the village of Siloa, and nearly opposite the tombs of Jehoshaphat and Zechariah.

Isa 8:6

Shiloah.

Lu 13:4; Joh 9:7

Siloam. the stairs.

2Sa 5:6,7