Solomon's Pools

The road which runs southwest from Bethlehem to Hebron (24km/15mi) passes on the left, a few kilometers from Bethlehem, three large open cisterns known as Solomon's Pools, built in ancient times to provide water for Jerusalem. A reliable tradition dates them to the reign of Solomon in the 10th century B.C.: "I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees" (Ecclesiastes 2,6).