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The seven gates at the time of Suleiman were, clockwise and by their current name: the Damascus Gate; Herod's Gate; Lions' Gate; Golden Gate; Dung Gate; Zion Gate; and Jaffa Gate. With the re-sealing of the Golden Gate by Suleiman, the number of operational gates was only brought back to seven in 1887, with the addition of the New Gate .
"The sheep gate": also mentioned in Nehemiah 3:32 and Nehemiah 12:39; could be the same gate as mentioned in John 5:2, Now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew Bethesda. [11] The fact that the priests restored it indicates its proximity to the Temple which is confirmed by the reference to it in Nehemiah 12: ...
Ezra is described as "the scribe" in this verse and as "the priest" in verse 2. Repairs to "the place in front of the Water Gate toward the east" were referred to in Nehemiah 3:26. Whereas the King James Version refers to the "street" before the gate, other translations refer to the "square" [17] or the "courtyard". [18]
"Tower of Hananeel": a well-known landmark, which is mentioned also in Nehemiah 3:1; Jeremiah 31:38; Zechariah 14:10, standing midway between "the sheep gate" and "the fish gate", at the northeast corner of Jerusalem, then from this point, the wall which had run northwestern from the sheep gate now turned to west. [32]
As Jerusalem grew so did the demand for water, of which the city had inadequate supplies. Water works were therefore built to convey water to a storage pool northwest of the Temple Mount, draining both Beit Zeita stream and the Tyropoeon. The tunnel is 80 meters long, approximately 1.20 feet (0.37 m) wide, and 12 feet (3.7 m) high at its ...
The Gate of Darkness (Arabic: باب العتم Bāb al-ʿAtim or -ʿAtam) is one of the three gates located on the north side. It was called "Gate of al-Dawadariya" (باب الدوادرية), after a nearby school. It is now also known as King Faisal's Gate (باب الملك فيصل). The gate is four meters tall, with an arched roof.
The idea of dating the tunnel to Hezekiah's period was derived from the Biblical text that describes construction of a water tunnel in his time. [1] Scientific support for this, however, came from radiocarbon dates of organic matter contained in the original plastering as well as radiometry ( uranium-thorium dating of speleothems ). [ 2 ]
The western set is a double-arched gate (the Double Gate), and the eastern is a triple-arched gate (the Triple Gate). [3] There still are a few Herodian architectural elements visible outside and inside the gates, while most everything else of what we see today is later, Muslim-period work.