Siloam Tunnel
The Siloam Tunnel, also known as Hezekiah's Tunnel, is a water tunnel that was dug underneath the City of David in Jerusalem in ancient times. Its popular name is due to the most common hypothesis of its origin, namely that it dates from the reign of Hezekiah of Judah and corresponds to the waterworks mentioned in 2 Kings 20:20 in the Bible. According to the Bible, King Hezekiah prepared Jerusalem for an impending siege by the Assyrians, by "blocking the source of the waters of the upper Gihon, and leading them straight down on the west to the City of David".
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Even today one can still get through the 500 m long aqueduct that Hezekiah built underneath the City of David to divert the water of the Gihon Spring to the Pool of Siloam.
2 Kings 20:20; 2 Chron 32:30
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