The location of the Ophel of the Hebrew Bible is easy to make out from the references from and : it was on the eastern ridge, which descends south of the Temple, and probably near the middle of it. In current terms, the still extant Herodian cased-in Temple Mount is bordered to the south by a saddle, followed by the ridge in case, also known as the southeastern hill, which stretches down to the King's Garden and the (lower) Siloam Pool. If the Ophel was, as it seems, close to its centre, the use of the term Ophel ridge for the entire southeastern hill including the saddle, seems to be wrong.