Below the city ...

Today, after the service at St Andrew's Church of Scotland in Jerusalem we headed to the City of David outside the city wall to see the archaeological sites and to see Hezekiah's Tunnel, or the Siloam Tunnel. This is a tunnel that was dug underneath the City of David to divert the water supply into the city during a time of impending siege. You can walk through the tunnel which takes about 30 minutes - for the first few minutes the water is thigh deep then it drops. The water ended in the Pool of Siloam. However we weren't wearing suitable shoes and had no torch so we opted to go the dry route through the older Cananite Tunnel which in places is only 30 cm wide.

"It was Hezekiah who blocked the upper outlet of the Gihon spring and channeled the water down to the west side of the City of David. He succeeded in everything he undertook." 2 Chronicles 32:30