Isaiah the prophet was born in Jerusalem, of the tribe of Judah; and he died at the hands of Manasseh, king of Judah, sawn in two, and was laid beneath the oak of Rogel, hard by the passage of the waters which Hezekiah the king destroyed by blocking them up.

2And God wrought the wonder of Siloam for the sake of the prophet; for before he died, growing faint, he prayed to drink water, and at once living water was sent to him from it.

3For this reason the name was called Siloam, which is interpreted "sent."

4And in the time of Hezekiah the king, before he made the trenches and the pools, at the prayer of the prophet Isaiah a little water came forth, for the people were shut in by the foreigners, and lest the city be destroyed as having no water.

5For the enemies kept asking whence they drank; for they did not know.

6For having the city in their power, they encamped beside Siloam; whenever, therefore, the Jews came out to draw, water came forth for them, and they drew, but the foreigners did not find it.

7For the water fled.

8Wherefore even to this day it comes forth suddenly, that the mystery may be shown.

9And because this came to pass through Isaiah, for the sake of remembrance the people also buried him nearby, carefully and with honor, that through his prayers they might have the enjoyment of the water to the end.

10For an oracle also was given them concerning him.

11And the tomb of Isaiah the prophet is next to the tomb of the kings, behind the tomb of the priests, on the southern side.

12For Solomon, when building Jerusalem, made the tombs of the kings, David having marked them out; and it is to the east of Zion, having an entrance from Gabaoth, twenty stadia distant from the city.

13And he made a winding, intricate, unsuspected passage; and it is unknown to the many even to this day.