[1] The work identified numerous Biblical localities for the first time, as well as significant Jerusalem archaeological sites such as Robinson's Arch (subsequently named for the author), and undertook the first scientific surveys of other sites such as the Siloam tunnel.

[2] Robinson received a Royal Geographical Society Patron's Medal as a result of his work.

[6] Albrecht Alt described the work as "epoch-making", and in describing the influence of the work in dispelling previously accepted knowledge of the region, stated: "he was able definitively to disprove a large part of what his predecessors had thought and had written.

[7] Professor Thomas W. Davis noted that "all later archaeological research in Palestine is in some way indebted to [Robinson].

What they have to say is important as raw material, which will ultimately be made to take the shape of a word that occurs in the Bible.