As we drive up to
Jerusalem, the landscape is treeless and rocky.
We pass by a number of Bedouin camps that are nothing more than primitive shacks with a few animals being tended.
As we come in sight of Jerusalem, the sound system of the bus plays some wonderful music – all of it praising Jerusalem. Not a dry eye to be found!
In Jerusalem, we head for the City of David where last year they found the palace of King David. We slosh our way through Hezekiah’s tunnel and exit by the Pool of Siloam. Glen reads from 2 Kings 18-20 and we learn Hezekiah “did what was right in the eyes of the Lord” and he was able to hold off the Assyrians because their water supply was assured through the tunnel he built for that purpose. What a walk through the tunnel! It was about 30 minutes of walking through a narrow and sometimes short passage, using flashlights. It was some feat of engineering to cut that tunnel in 800 BC.
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