Ishodad of Merv, on 1Kgs 1:33

“He said to them: Take with you the servants of your lord, and set my son Solomon upon my mule: and bring him to Gihon.”

“[David] orders them to bring [Solomon] down to Šiloha, where the tabernacle was, not far from the spring of water, which is called Šiloha. Šiloha is a Hebrew name, which is given because the water of the spring gushes out straight up and on and off; indeed, it does not gush out regularly and all the time. And the same can be said about the Nile: since, at different intervals, it suddenly becomes full and then overflows, it is called Gihon, because its waters spread out.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.