Posted on 12/17/2020 5:58:48 AM PST by Hebrews 11:6
Thanks for the link--I hadn't gotten that far.
nice pics
Yep!
I trust you realize I’m only messin’ wit ya?!
The “City of David” dig wasn’t fully excavated back when I was in Jerusalem, so I didn’t see that same sight. I did, however, walk into Hezekiah’s Water Tunnel.
“The “City of David” dig wasn’t fully excavated back when I was in Jerusalem, so I didn’t see that same sight. I did, however, walk into Hezekiah’s Water Tunnel.”
I was there in November 2019 with my daughter. We toured the city of David. I had read about its excavation through the 70s. They had a very good animated movie about how it appeared to David and his soldiers when it was the city of Jebus. Before that, it was the city of Salem, when Melchizedek was the priest there in Abraham’s day, 1,000 years before David.
David’s palace was at the top of the city and the water spring was inside the rock at the bottom of the city. A wall surmounted the high rock. The water spring was used to irrigate the fields in Kidron valley. The archeologists speculated David’s soldiers got in through the irrigation tunnel. Then they climbed out of the well.
People were skeptical of the climb, which was 80-100 straight up rough rock. Then an archeologist had a mountain climber free climb it. Difficult, but possible.
Later, my daughter and I walked through Hezekiah’s tunnel, down hill to the bottom of Jerusalem (see the Water Gate). The tunnel is only about 5 feet high and two feet wide at the start and the water gets up to 3 feet deep, but then it opens up at the bottom.
Joab became the head of the army because he was brave enough to crawl through the irrigation tunnel and open the city up to David’s forces (600 men at this point). He was also David’s nephew, the son of his mother’s sister Zeruriah.
Joab was ruthless and unscrupulous and utterly loyal to David. He might have invented the phrase “win by any means necessary”. I’m sure David didn’t fear him, but he was bound by his own promise and family loyalty to keep Joab as head of his army. David was not good at executing justice upon his own family members (Absalom, Amnon, Joab). He was likely torn between family loyalty and love of justice. Take a look at some of his psalms.
I need to go back! There has been so much done since I was in Israel (back in the 20th century!).
Thanks for sharing that experience with us.
Oh that President Trump would have had such Patriots in his administration. Make that will have.
That is interesting, but more fascinating to me is whether I am developing into a person Jesus will find useful during His administration.
Good one!
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