Ein Rogel

31°46′04″N 35°14′08″E / 31.7677°N 35.2355°E / 31.7677; 35.2355

Ein Rogel (Hebrew: עין רגל‎ ʿĒn Rōgēl) is a spring on the outskirts of Jerusalem, mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. It is most commonly identified as what Arabs refer to as Well of Job (Arabic: بئر أيوب Bir Ayoub) in Silwan,^[2]^[3]^[4] though some scholars dispute this view.^[5]

Ein Rogel was mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as the hiding-place of David's spies, Jonathan and Ahimaaz, during Absalom's uprising against the rule of King David (2 Samuel 17:17). It may also have been a sacred place in pre-Israelite times.^[5]

^ Roberts, The Fountain of Job
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^ Robinson, E.; Smith, E. (1841). Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the Year 1838. Vol. 1. Boston: Crocker & Brewster. pp. 490–491. OCLC 989455877. Frank Christians call this the well of Nehemiah, supposing it to be the same in which the sacred fire is said to have been hid during the Jewish captivity, until again recovered by that leader of the exiles. [Footnote: 2 Macc. i. 19-22. Formerly also Puteus ignis; see Quaresmius II. p. 270, seq. Cotovic. p. 292. Doubdan Voyage p. 136.] But I have not found this name in any writer earlier than the close of the sixteenth century. Those who mention the well before that time, speak of it only as the En-Rogel of the Old Testament. [Footnote: So Brocardus c. 8. Marinus Sanutus III. 14. 9. De Salignac in A. D. 1522, Itin. Tom. X. c. 1. Cotovicus in 1598 calls it Puteus ignis; and Quaresmius seems to be the first to give it the name of Nehemiah.] The native inhabitants call it Bîr Eyûb, the Well of Job. [Footnote: I know not the occasion of this name; yet it occurs in Mejr ed Dîn in A. D. 1495, as if already of long standing; Fundgr. des Or. II. p. 130. It is found also in the Arabic version of Joshua in the Paris and London Polyglotts, for En-Rogel, Josh. xv. 7. The Jewish Itinerary published by Hottinger in his Cippi Hebraici, says this well is properly that of Joab, though the Gentiles call it the well of Job; p. 48. Ed. 2.
^ Levi-Naḥum, Yehuda (1986). "The graves of the fathers and of the righteous". Sefer ṣohar le-ḥasifat ginzei teiman (in Hebrew). Ḥolon, Israel: Mifʻal ḥaśifat ginze Teman. p. 253. OCLC 15417732. There (in Jerusalem) is located Ein Rogel, and they [now] call it Bīr Ayoub.
^ ^a ^b Cheyne, Thomas Kelly; Black, J. Sutherland, eds. (1901). En-rogel. Vol. 2. Toronto: George N. Morang & Company. p. 1297. Retrieved 24 August 2020. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)

[1] Roberts, The Fountain of Job

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[Robinson_name-3] Robinson, E.; Smith, E. (1841). Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the Year 1838. Vol. 1. Boston: Crocker & Brewster. pp. 490–491. OCLC 989455877. Frank Christians call this the well of Nehemiah, supposing it to be the same in which the sacred fire is said to have been hid during the Jewish captivity, until again recovered by that leader of the exiles. [Footnote: 2 Macc. i. 19-22. Formerly also Puteus ignis; see Quaresmius II. p. 270, seq. Cotovic. p. 292. Doubdan Voyage p. 136.] But I have not found this name in any writer earlier than the close of the sixteenth century. Those who mention the well before that time, speak of it only as the En-Rogel of the Old Testament. [Footnote: So Brocardus c. 8. Marinus Sanutus III. 14. 9. De Salignac in A. D. 1522, Itin. Tom. X. c. 1. Cotovicus in 1598 calls it Puteus ignis; and Quaresmius seems to be the first to give it the name of Nehemiah.] The native inhabitants call it Bîr Eyûb, the Well of Job. [Footnote: I know not the occasion of this name; yet it occurs in Mejr ed Dîn in A. D. 1495, as if already of long standing; Fundgr. des Or. II. p. 130. It is found also in the Arabic version of Joshua in the Paris and London Polyglotts, for En-Rogel, Josh. xv. 7. The Jewish Itinerary published by Hottinger in his Cippi Hebraici, says this well is properly that of Joab, though the Gentiles call it the well of Job; p. 48. Ed. 2.

[4] Levi-Naḥum, Yehuda (1986). "The graves of the fathers and of the righteous". Sefer ṣohar le-ḥasifat ginzei teiman (in Hebrew). Ḥolon, Israel: Mifʻal ḥaśifat ginze Teman. p. 253. OCLC 15417732. There (in Jerusalem) is located Ein Rogel, and they [now] call it Bīr Ayoub.

[Cheyne-5] Cheyne, Thomas Kelly; Black, J. Sutherland, eds. (1901). En-rogel. Vol. 2. Toronto: George N. Morang & Company. p. 1297. Retrieved 24 August 2020. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)

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