Ein Rogel

Ein Rogel lay close to a stone, Zoheleth, where Adonijah, Solomon's half-brother of, held a sacrificial feast when he attempted to assert his claims to the throne (1 Kings 1:9).

[7][8] Ein Rogel is mentioned in "Topography of Jerusalem", a document found in the Cairo Geniza, which describes how the water breaks through to the riverbed after a winter of plentiful rainfall.

[12] The application of the Biblical name Ein Rogel to this well in Silwan is long-standing amongst early European travellers to Jerusalem.

[3] Israeli geographer, Zev Vilnay, brings down an etymological account of the Arabic name Bir Ayyub, reporting in the name of the Jewish traveler, Moshe Yerushalmi, who visited Palestine in circa 1765 that there was a well-established tradition amongst Jews in the city that the original name of the well was called Be'er Yoav (Eng.

Moshe Yerushalmi wrote in his book, "The Ishmaelites say that it is Bir Ayyub ('the well of Job'), but they do not know, nor do they understand, that it is the 'well of Joab' (Heb.

[3][14][15][16] Robinson, during his tour of Palestine in 1838, describes Bir Ayoub (Job's Well) as being "a very deep well, of an irregular quadrilateral form, walled up with large squared stones, terminating above in an arch on one said, and apparently of great antiquity.

A water plant was established near Bir Ayoub, which involved large expenses and a lot of labor.

[19] Today there is a modern pumping station there, drawing water from a 38 m deep well, whose stone lining may be partially of Roman date.

[20] During periods of great rain downpour, as happened in February 1927, a gushing spring would issue out of the earth some 47 metres (154 ft) downstream from the Well of Job.

[21] Other scholars, namely Charles Warren, thought that Ein Rogel was to be identified with the Virgin's fountain, or what is also known as Gihon Spring.