December 20, 2010

Holy land Tour | The City of David

The City of David
In the ancient pre-Israelite period, the City of David  (Holyland) was separated from the Temple Mount by the Ophel, an uninhabited area which became the seat of government under Israelite rule. During the reign of Hezekiah, the walls of the city were expanded westward, enclosing a previously unwalled suburb in the area now known as the Old City of Jerusalem, west of the Temple Mount.

Pool of Siloam: Siloam is an ancient Greek name derived from the more ancient Hebrew Shiloah. The Arabic: Silwan, was derived form the Greek, Siloam. It is an ancient site in Jerusalem, south of the Old City. (holyland) According to the Hebrew Bible, the ancient community of Siloam was built around the "serpent-stone", Zoheleth, where Adonijah gave his feast in the time of Solomon.

Holyland, Exavation of David Palace
Siloam is the site of the Pool of Siloam, the outlet of the waters of the Gihon Spring. According to the Christian New Testament, this is the site where Jesus healed a man blind from birth as described in the Gospel of John, and the legendary Tower of Siloam, whose collapse is an omen in the Gospel of Luke.
Exavation of David Palace 2005

The Siloam inscription was discovered in the water tunnel built during the reign of Hezekiah, in the early 7th Century BC. The Siloam inscription is now preserved in the Archeological Museum of Istanbul, Turkey. King Hezekiah secured the city's water supply against siege by digging the Hezekiah Tunnel through bedrock and covering over all signs of the Gihon Spring and the fortifications that had surrounded it in earlier periods. He built the Pool of Siloam as a water reservoir. Hezekiah then surrounded the new reservoir and the city's burgeoning western suburbs with a new city wall city wall.


Map Nazareth (Pool of Siloam):