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1. One of the rivers in the garden of Eden, now quite unknown. Gen. 2: 13.
2. Place near Jerusalem where Solomon was anointed and proclaimed king. Hezekiah stopped the upper water-courses of Gihon and brought the water down to the west side of the city of David. Manasseh also built a wall "on the west side of Gihon, in the
valley even to the entering in at the fish-gate." 1 Kings 1: 33, 38, 45;
2 Chr. 32: 30; 2 Chr. 33: 14. Some locate Gihon at the Pool of Siloam, others at the Fountain of the Virgin; and some associate the 'lower pool of Gihon' with the Birket es Sultan at the S.W. of the city.