Gihon

Gihon is the second of the four rivers named in the account of Eden: “A river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became the source of four rivers” (Genesis 2:10). “The name of the second river is Gihon. It is the same river that flows through the whole land of Cush” (Genesis 2:13). The others are the Pishon, the Hiddekel and the Euphrates (Genesis 2:11–14). Its course cannot be traced with certainty today. It is a different place from the Gihon spring outside Jerusalem, where Solomon was anointed king (1 Kings 1:45).