Horatio Spafford
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Horatio Gates Spafford was an American lawyer and Presbyterian church elder. He is best known for penning the Christian hymn "It Is Well With My Soul" following the Great Chicago Fire, and the deaths
Portrait of Spafford
Anna Spafford
Siloam inscription
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The Siloam inscription, Silwan inscription or Shiloah inscription, known as KAI 189, is a Hebrew inscription found in the Siloam tunnel which brings water from the Gihon Spring to the Pool of Siloam,
Horatio Spafford
…and his wife adopted a teenager named Jacob Eliahu (1864–1932), born in Ramallah to a Turkish Jewish family. As a schoolboy, Jacob discovered the Siloam inscription. Spafford died of malaria on September 25, 1888, at age 59. He was buried in Mount Zion Cemetery in Jerusalem…
Siloam Inscription 2
A copy of the inscription, in its original location inside Hezekiah's Tunnel, 2010
The inscription and display case at the Istanbul Archaeology Museum, 2014.
A copy of the inscription, with English translation