Silla

Silla appears once in Scripture as the place where King Joash of Judah was assassinated by his servants after his betrayal of the prophet Zechariah: "His servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew Joash in the house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla" (2 Kings 12:20). The "house of Millo" was a fortified terrace on the southern slope of the City of David built by Solomon, and Silla was apparently a nearby location on the descent into the Kidron Valley. The exact site has never been identified — the name may preserve the memory of a stepped road or causeway leading down from the royal quarter to the spring at Gihon.