7/15/2023 0 Comments Walls of jerusalem dragon spring‘Why should the king of Assyria come here and find much water?’ they asked … Hezekiah closed the upper outlet of the waters of Gihon and directed them down to the west side of the City of David. They gathered together a large number of people and stopped up all the springs and the stream which flowed through the land. The Walls Of Jerusalem ONE FOR ISRAEL By sunset, Jerusalem’s stone walls are radiant with rosy golden and tawny hues, making it glow like a city of gold. When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib intended to attack Jerusalem, he planned with his civil and military officers to stop up the water of the springs outside the city and they helped him. Hezekiah’s extraordinary achievement is even recorded in the Bible: The city’s only supply of fresh water, the Gihon Spring, lay outside the city wall, so Hezekiah’s tunnelers excavated a remarkable 1,750-foot, S-shaped tunnel under the city that connected the spring to the Siloam Pool on the other side of the city. often the case with other springs in the neighbourhood of Jerusalem and elsewhere. NET Bible I proceeded through the Valley Gate by night, in the direction of the Well of the Dragons and the Dung Gate, inspecting the walls of Jerusalem that had been. at the examination of the ruined walls of J elusalem by Nehemiah at. came, as the poet Lord Byron said, “like a wolf on the fold,” King Hezekiah of Judah dug his famous tunnel to ensure the city besieged would have adequate water. I rode out at night by the Valley Gate, passed by the Dragon Spring, and came to the Dung Gate, observing how the walls of Jerusalem were breached and its gates consumed by fire. In preparation for the Assyrian king Sennacherib’s attack on Jerusalem, which in 701 B.C.E. And it is also one of the most exciting to visit-Hezekiah’s Tunnel. It is one of the most famous sites in Jerusalem-right up there after the Dome of the Rock, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Western Wall.
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