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The newer Siloam Tunnel (Hebrew: נִקְבַּת הַשִּׁלֹחַ, Nikbat HaShiloaḥ), also known as Hezekiah's Tunnel (Hebrew: תעלת חזקיהו, Te'alát Ḥizkiyáhu), is a water tunnel that was carved within the City of David in ancient times, now located in the Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan in East Jerusalem.
A copy of the inscription, in its original location inside Hezekiah's Tunnel, 2010. In July 1890 a resident of Jerusalem had the inscription removed from the wall of the tunnel. During this work the inscription cracked into six or seven pieces and several letters were damaged at the breakpoints. [9] [10] [11] [12]
This long tunnel—also known as the Siloam Tunnel or Hezekiah's Tunnel—begins at the west end of Tunnel VI, near the base of Warren's Shaft, and winds its way south to the Siloam Pool at the southern end of the City of David. Tunnel VIII was built as a replacement for the surface Channel II and diverted waters from Gihon inside the walled city.
The pool was fed by the newly constructed Siloam tunnel. An older Canaanite tunnel had been vulnerable to attackers, so, under threat from the Assyrian king Sennacherib, Hezekiah sealed the old outlet of the Gihon Spring and built the new underground Siloam tunnel in place of the older tunnel (Books of Chronicles, 2 Chronicles 32:2–4).
The Siloam Tunnel (also known as Hezekiah's Tunnel), an Iron Age water supply system where the Siloam inscription was found; The Siloam Pool - two connected pools, an upper one from the Byzantine period at the exit of the Siloam Tunnel, and the recently discovered, lower pool dating to the Hasmonean part of the Second Temple Period.
Sennacherib's Annals describe how the king trapped Hezekiah of Judah in Jerusalem "like a caged bird" and later returned to Assyria when he received tribute from Judah. In the Hebrew Bible, Hezekiah is described as paying 300 talents of silver and 30 talents of gold to Assyria. The biblical story then adds a miraculous ending in which ...
Despite experiencing vast wealth and strong economy for being God-fearing, Hezekiah was not without faults (2 Chronicles 32:24–26; cf. 2 Kings 20:1–19; Isaiah 38–39; "there is no one who does not sin" in 2 Chronicles 6:36), but like David, (1 Chronicles 21:8, 17) and Rehoboam (2 Chronicles 12:7), Hezekiah prayed and humbled himself before ...
Hezekiah's Pool (1862); in the background is the double-domed Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Flavius Josephus referred to the pool as Amygdalon, meaning 'almond tree' in Greek, but it is very likely that he derived the name phonetically from the Hebrew word מגדל migdal, meaning 'tower', thus it is believed that the original name was Pool of the Tower or Towers.