king's pool

king's pool

’s Pool, a reservoir in the royal gardens at Jerusalem (Neh 2:14), probably the Pool of Shelah receiving water from the Gihon spring. It may be identical with the Upper Pool (Isa 7:3).

Neh 2:14

14Then I went on to the Fountain Gate and to the King's Pool; but there was no place for the animal I was riding to continue.

Isa 7:3

3Then the Lord said to Isaiah, Go out to meet Ahaz, you and your son Shear-jashub, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool on the highway to the Fuller's Fi ... View more

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