Day 8

Today we had a partial free day. It started off with a quiz, since TJ is taking this class for credit. I was going to take it also just for fun, but they didn’t have enough copies of the quiz. The quiz was rather brutal. There are plenty of names, locations, and other things they are trying to teach us in a short amount of time. After the quiz, we went to a museum and wandered the city of Jerusalem. Since there is not a whole lot to say about today, I’m going to go back and talk about day 3 again, since we left out a part from that day. Wednesday we went to “City of David” which is Jerusalem in David’s time that is actually located outside of current city walls from 1500AD. There we walked through Hezekiah’s Tunnel. It is a tunnel that Hezekiah built to divert the water from a spring outside the city walls to bring in to the city. This gives Jerusalem a supply of fresh water even when they were under siege from Assyria. The Lord delivered Jerusalem did not fall in the siege. This tunnel is referenced in 2 Chronicles 32:1-8 and 2 Kings 20:20. The tunnel was a little wider than me and amount my height the whole way through which is about 1/3 of a mile long. Water still runs through the tunnel at knee height. Tomorrow night we are leaving for a different hotel that may not have internet, so we don’t know when we will be able to post next.