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Hezekiah’s Tunnel

Hezekiah’s Tunnel



‎The tunnel was excavated approximately 40 meters beneath Ophel, the City of David, in Old Jerusalem during the reign of Hezekiah, King of Judea, around 710 BC. The tunnel was cut into over half a kilometer of bedrock with a 6 percent gradient designed to allow water to flow from the Gihon Spring into the Pool of Siloam.

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