The City of David
( Hebrew: עיר דוד, Ir David ),
it’s the home to the ancient Biblical Jerusalem!?
Something a little different this post!
Many folks are not able to visit Israel or experience actually walking in the places we read of in the Scriptures.
It is one reason why so many pictures are added into the posts because we are very visual creatures and love to see what we are talking about.
Having not too long ago remembered Shavout/Pentecost and previous to that, Passover/Pesach. It is timely that in the following videos, both Appointed Times were mentioned because they were recorded only a few weeks ago and contain some archeological dig sites and discoveries as yet unseen by the general public!
The claims of those excavating are certainly food for thought!
Please note, this post is simply reporting some recent archeological news and is not making claims or statements to cause confusion or argument… everyone is encouraged to do their own research concerning any information included here.
Jerusalem is built with Jerusalem stone, a pale limestone common 3000 years ago and today, and up until 150 years ago, everybody thought that the ancient Biblical Jerusalem lies within the confines of the Old City within the walls there.
Apparently, while the history of the City of David goes back 3000 years to King David, only in the past 150 years was it clear that the original biblical Jerusalem lay just south of and outside what’s today known as the Old City.
Here is a portion of the interview:
The City of David,” Heymann told CBN News. “It’s the home to the ancient biblical Jerusalem and up until 150 years ago, everybody thought that the ancient biblical Jerusalem lies within the confines of the Old City right behind you in the wall – within the walls there. So the question is what happened 150 years ago and where is the ancient biblical Jerusalem?”
The area in red shows probable borders of Davids Jerusalem and Parking Lot (Givati) excavation site above left.
Starting at the ancient site of the City of David, they show the roads that would have been walked on by the thousands of people who made their annual pilgrimages to the temple in Jerusalem, bringing their sacrifices with them;
obeying the biblical commandment to travel to Jerusalem three times a year for a Temple sacrifice – at Passover, Shavuot (Pentecost), and Succoth (Feast of Tabernacles).
The Jerusalem pilgrim road is an ancient road used by ritual processions ascending from the Pool of Siloam to the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site, via the Hulda Gates in the Southern Wall.
These places have been mentioned in so many previous posts and in stumbling upon them, it seemed right to share them.
The city of David in relationship and proximity to Jerusalem is shown below.
What we read in the scripture comes alive as we see with our own eyes the original stone steps and roads just now uncovered after almost 2000 years.
These are the same stones that they would have walked on as they ascended up the Temple with their families and singing the Psalms of Ascent.
The ancient drainage channel/tunnel is underneath the road.
The Songs of Ascent are a special group of psalms comprising Psalms 120—134.
They are also called Pilgrim Songs, Gradual Psalms, Songs of Degrees, Songs of Steps or Songs for going up to Worship.
Shir Hama’aloth
Song of the Ascents
Hebrew: שִׁיר המַעֲלוֹת
The Strong’s number for the word “ascent,” as used in the collection of psalms, is H4609. In Hebrew, the word is מעלה (ma’alah) which is used to describe upward movement, such as going up a hill or climbing stairs.
The Bible is true,
these places are real,
and events described within its pages actually happened.
A bell found in the excavations, thought to have come from the High Priests Garments.
An Exceptional woman’s 500 year-old seal unearthed
and the ear ring mentioned in the videos.
A few notes follow that may help in clarifying the locations mentioned in the videos.
The second video is the one that was spoken of at the end of the first so there is a continuation.
City of David The Struggle over Mount Zion City of the Great King.
“Here am I, and the children the LORD has given me. We are signs and symbols in Israel from the LORD Almighty, who dwells on Mount Zion.” (Isaiah 8:18)
Mount Zion is a hill just outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem. It is actually older than the Old City: it is the original city.
A view of the Old City of Jerusalem extending from Mount Zion at the left edge of the frame to the corner of the Temple Mount near the right edge.
The first time Zion is mentioned in the Hebrew Scriptures is in 2 Samuel 5:7, when David captured Jerusalem from the Jebusites.
“David captured the fortress of Zion—which is the City of David [Ir David].” (2 Samuel 5:7)
Zion originally referred only to that ancient fortress and was called the City of David (2 Chronicles 5:2).
An 1845 map of Ancient Jerusalem identifying Mount Zion with the Pool of Siloam beside it. To the right of Mount Zion is the Hill of Offense, so named because Solomon built high places to false gods there.
Silwan is built on its steep western face and now extends down into the Kidron Valley (Valley of Jehoshaphat) and up to Mount Zion. The Mount of Olives is the elevation just north of Silwan.
After Solomon built the First Temple in 967 BC on Mount Moriah, however, Zion came to refer to the Temple and its surrounding area and, later, the entire City of Jerusalem, which had expanded uphill and northward, beyond the original Mount Zion site.
From the time of King Solomon’s reign through the reign of Hezekiah,
water from the Gihon spring (above) was brought up to the Temple on Mount Moriah for use in the sacrifices during God’s commanded feasts.
Psalm 48:2 calls Mount Zion the city of the great King. It sounds majestic and it truly was in Solomon’s day when the First Temple stood in all its glory!
“Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.” (Psalm 48:2)
Although ancient rabbinic commentaries describe the area of Mount Zion/ City of David as the center of the Land of Israel (Zamib i 5), today, the mostly Arab village of Silwan extends into Mount Zion, making the area the subject of hot dispute.
The Spring That Runs Through It: Silwan, Siloam, and Shiloach
The Arabic name Silwan comes from the Greek term Siloam, which is derived from the Hebrew name Shiloach. Where we also get the name Shiloh.
Both the Arabic and Hebrew mean Gihon spring, which flows through the Kidron Valley that runs north-south between the Mount of Olives and the City of David on the southern edge of the Temple Mount.
FULFILLED IN ISRAEL: THE ROCKS ARE CRYING OUT IN THE CITY OF DAVID
“You can see exactly how she (Jerusalem) slowly disappeared from civilization because one city was built upon the other, and you could see how probably the city could have lost hope, thinking ‘who’s ever going to discover me again? Until God says, but in a time of favor, nothing can stop it and that’s what we see … Jerusalem is slowly being revealed.” -Anarina Heymann
City of David and the Mount of Olives
Silwan is located on a steep ridge
southeast of the Temple Mount called the Ophel in Hebrew, which means climb, extending to the ridge of the southern peak of the Mount of Olives.
The houses of Silwan
The original City of David was built on the Ophel ridge. David’s palace was located on the crest and the people’s houses cascaded down the hill. That slope, in fact, enabled King David to see Bathsheba bathing on her roof (2 Samuel 11:2).
Today, houses still stretch down the hill, likely appearing much as they did in King David’s time.
The City of David lay hidden for nearly 2,000 years until a British archaeologist began a discovery that continues to this day.
In 1867, British officer and engineer Charles Warren set out to discover Jerusalem. He was the first to begin to unearth 2000 years of civilizations that had been buried as foreign occupiers destroyed and then built new atop the old.
For thousands of years, while the world looked inside the relatively modern walls of the Old City, the original Jerusalem lay buried.
Warren’s Shaft, which was discovered in 1867 by Charles Warren, is thought to be the shaft through which King David conquered Mount Zion from the Jebusites. (2 Samuel 5:6–10)
Another remarkable discovery during construction of the visitor center in 1997, unexpectedly uncovered two monumental towers that date back to the age of the kings of Judea: one protecting the base of Warren’s Shaft (a tunnel that allows access to the Gihon Spring from inside the city walls), and the other protecting the spring itself.
More than 10 years ago, archaeologists uncovered another Biblical site, the Pool of Siloam,
The Pool of Siloam
Hebrew: בריכת השילוח ,
Breikhat Hashiloah
was a rock-cut pool on the southern slope of the City of David, the original site of Jerusalem, located outside the walls of the Old City to the southeast.
The pool was fed by the waters of the Gihon Spring, carried there by two aqueducts.
It’s the place where Jesus healed the blind man and also where the Jewish people would gather for the Feasts of the Lord.
Below is the place when Charles Warren came through the fascia that he found. He saw something. And when Charles Warren saw this, he knew that he rediscovered the ancient biblical Jerusalem.”
Asked if this Warren’s work was the beginning of the unveiling of the City of David in modern times, she responded, “Exactly because we’re speaking of a 2,000 year period where nobody knew where the ancient city was. Most people thought when they – when they came – that what they saw in the Old City, that was ancient biblical Jerusalem. It’s only when he found this that they discovered…the ancient Jerusalem lies outside of what we call today the Old City.”
The discovery of the tunnel system known as Warren’s Shaft visually tells how King David captured the city and brings the Bible to life.
Is this final ascent a merger between archaeology and prophecy?
Something amazing is happening because as they are now excavating this road, prophecy is being fulfilled because it says in Isaiah: ‘build up, build up the road,’ the highway remove the stones for My people’s return,”
The entire history of Jerusalem is being revealed as if
the rocks are crying out.
It’s said [In Hebrew] ‘shake off your dust, arise, take your rightful place, Jerusalem.’ If you see the excavations here on a daily basis, you can see the buckets flying. You can see the dust literally flying about, how she’s shaking off her dust.”
It certainly seems that The Stones of Jerusalem Cry Out as She Shakes The Dust of Her Feet!
If you love archeology and Israel, the country and the people where our Heavenly Father chose to send His Son, Yeshua/Jesus you will enjoy these videos.
The Journey along the Pilgrimage Road in the City of David, the Heart of Ancient Jerusalem..mp4
Underground Journey from the City of David to the Temple Mount Foundation Stones.mp4
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