Solomon's Tombs and Jeremiah's End

God performed many wonders through the hand of Elisha; and having died, he was buried in Samaria in Sebaste. This man prophesied concerning the coming of the Lord. And the waters of Jericho, being barren, he made to heal by making them salty, saying: Thus says the Lord: Let these waters be healed. And they were healed until this very day. He also raised the dead, and Naaman the Syrian, being a leper, he cleansed of his leprosy, and made Gehazi his servant a leper. And being dead, he raised one dead.

8. Isaiah the prophet; indeed he was born in Jerusalem from the tribe of Judah; but he dies by Manasseh the king of Judah, being cut in two, and was placed under a tree, Rogelim, near the crossing of the waters which Hezekiah the king destroyed in anger. But God made the Siloam through the prophet, because before dying, having thirsted, he prayed to drink water; and immediately living water was sent to him from it. Because of this, the name Siloam was called, which is interpreted 'sent'.

And in the time of Hezekiah the king, before he made the pits and the cisterns, a little water came out by the prayer of the prophet Isaiah, because the people were in a siege by the foreigners and so that the city might not be destroyed as not having water. For the enemies were asking, 'From where do they drink?' for they remained unawareware. Having the city, they sat by the Siloam; so when the Jews were coming, water used to go out to them and they were watered, but the foreigners did not find it. For the water used to flee. Therefore also until this day it comes out suddenly, so that the mystery might be shown. And since this happened through Isaiah, for the sake of memory, the people near him buried him carefully and gloriously, so that through his prayers they might have the enjoyment of the water until the end. For an oracle was given to them concerning him. And the tomb of Isaiah the prophet is located behind the tomb of the lions, after the tomb of the priests, toward the part...

Toward the south. For while Solomon was building Jerusalem, he made the tombs of the kings of David after marking them out; and they are east of Zion, which has an entrance from Gaboth, four stadia from the city. He also made a winding, complex, and unperceived path, which remains unknown to many even until today.

8. The prophet Jeremiah was from Anathoth, and he ended his life in Tafnis in Egypt, having been stoned by the people. He lies in the place of Pharaoh's habitation, because the Egyptians honored him, having been benefited by him. For the hunters of both the asp and the waters—whom the Egyptians call Nephoth, but the Greeks call crocodiles, which were killing them—were present; and after the prophet Jeremiah prayed, the wrath of the asps was restrained from that land, and likewise the habitat of the beasts was restrained from the river. And as many as are faithful even until today pray in that place, and by taking the skin of an asp, they heal, and the very beasts of the water flee.

This prophet gave a sign to the priests of Egypt, saying that all their idols must be shaken and all things made by hands must fall, when a virgin in labor in Egypt shall come with a child, divinely sent, which also happened to them. This prophet, before the capture of the temple, snatched away the ark of the law and all things in it, and caused them to be laid down in a rock; and he said to the priests of the people and to the elders standing by: 'The Lord has departed from Sinai into the heavens, and again he will come in holy power. And this shall be a sign of his presence, when all the nations shall worship wood.' He said to them that no priest or prophet shall ever open this ark, except Moses, the chosen of God, and no one shall refloat the tablets in it except Aaron. And in the resurrection, first the ark shall be raised, and it shall come out from the...