The place referred to by the word "Siloam" is now the Arab
neighborhood in East Jerusalem called Silwan, formerly Kefr Silwan,
on the east of the valley of Kidron, and to the north-east of the
pool.
It stands on the west slope of the Mount of Olives. In 1897 it
was stated, "as illustrative of the movement of small bands of
Canaanites from place to place, and the intermingling of Canaanites
and Israelites even in small towns in earlier times, M.C. Ganneau
records the following curious fact: "Among the inhabitants of the
village (of Siloam) there are a hundred or so domiciled for the
most part in the lower quarter, and forming a group apart from the
rest, called Dhiabrye, i.e., men of Dhiban. It appears that at some
remote period a colony from the capital of king Mesha (Dibon-Moab)
crossed the Jordan and fixed itself at the gates of Jerusalem at
Silwan. The memory of this migration is still preserved; and I am
assured by the people themselves that many of their number are
installed in other villages round Jerusalem" (quoted by Henderson,
Palestine).
This entry incorporates text from the public domain Easton's
Bible Dictionary, originally published in 1897.