Monday, July 5, 2010

POST #9

In the City of David, overlooking what may be the ruins of King David's palace, though it is certainly very, very old stones.

What may have been officers quarters right outside the palace.

Descending into an ancient tunnel under the City of David, dug by the Yevusim about 3,000 years ago.

This is one of King Chizkiya's tunnels. After Sancherev, the King of Ashur (Assyria) conquered and exiled the north of Israel and its Ten Tribes of Israel (i.e. The Ten Lost Tribes), the Jewish King of the southern three tribes (Yehudah, Levi, Binyamin) dug these tunnels to provide a water source to defend Jerusalem from the Ashurim. As it turned out, no need; Hashem made a miracle and the Ashurim perished.

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