En-rogel

En-rogel, meaning fountain of the fuller or the spy's fountain, was a spring located just south of Jerusalem at the junction of the Kidron and Hinnom valleys, on the boundary between the territories of Judah and Benjamin. Its water source served the lower city and was prominent enough to serve as a boundary marker in the tribal land allotments.

En-rogel appears several times in the historical narratives: Jonathan and Ahimaaz positioned themselves there as intelligence couriers during Absalom's rebellion, receiving information from a servant girl and relaying it to David. Later it was the site where Adonijah held a feast and sacrificed oxen and fatlings when he attempted to seize the throne before Solomon's coronation—an act close enough to Jerusalem to be politically significant yet outside the immediate palace precincts. The spring was distinct from the Gihon spring, which lay to the north and was the source used for Solomon's anointing. Modern identification is with Bir Ayyub (Job's Well) at the confluence of the two valleys.