Bible Dictionary
Conduit
A conduit is a channel, trench, or aqueduct for carrying water. Hezekiah made a conduit bringing the waters of Gihon into Jerusalem so the city would have water during a siege.
Definition
A conduit is a watercourse, channel, trench, or aqueduct used to carry water. In Jerusalem, Hezekiah constructed a conduit to bring water from the upper pool in the valley of Gihon into the city. The term can also refer to other channels conveying water.
Biblical Usage
Hezekiah’s conduit supplied Jerusalem with water and helped protect the city during a siege by drawing water away from the enemy. The conduit of the upper pool is mentioned in connection with the city’s defenses and water supply.
Historical Background
The supplied material also mentions remains of a channel bringing water from the pools associated with Solomon beyond Bethlehem into Jerusalem. Tradition attributed an original aqueduct to Solomon.
Scripture References
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Historical Bible Dictionaries
Easton's Bible Dictionary
A water-course or channel (Job 38:25). The “conduit of the upper pool” (Isa. 7:3) was formed by Hezekiah for the purpose of conveying the waters from the upper pool in the valley of Gihon to the west side of the city of David (2 Kings 18:17; 20:20; 2 Chr. 32:30). In carrying out this work he stopped “the waters of the fountains which were without the city” i.e., “the upper water-course of Gihon”, and conveyed it down from the west through a canal into the city, so that in case of a siege the inhabitants of the city might have a supply of water, which would thus be withdrawn from the enemy. (See SILOAM.) There are also the remains of a conduit which conducted water from the so-called “Pools of Solomon,” beyond Bethlehem, into the city. Water is still conveyed into the city from the fountains which supplied these pools by a channel which crosses the valley of Hinnom.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
meaning an aqueduct or trench through which water was carried. Tradition, both oral and as represented by Talmudical writers, ascribes to Solomon the formation of the original aqueduct by which water was brought to Jerusalem.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE)
<p>kon'-dit.</p><p>See CISTERN.</p>