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- Siloam_tunnel abstract "The Siloam Tunnel (Hebrew: נִקְבַּת השילוח, Nikbat HaShiloah), 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 (late 8th and early 7th century BCE) 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" (2 Chronicles 32). Support for the dating to Hezekiah's period is derived from the Biblical text that describes construction of a tunnel and to radiocarbon dates of organic matter contained in the original plastering. However, the dates were challenged in 2011 by new excavations that suggested an earlier origin in the late 9th or early 8th century BCE.The tunnel leads from the Gihon Spring to the Pool of Siloam. If indeed built under Hezekiah, it dates to a time when Jerusalem was preparing for an impending siege by the Assyrians, led by Sennacherib. Since the Gihon Spring was already protected by a massive tower and was included in the city's defensive wall system, Jerusalem seems to have been supplied with enough water in case of siege even without this tunnel. According to Ahron Horovitz, director of the Megalim Institute, the tunnel can be interpreted as an additional aqueduct designed for keeping the entire outflow of the spring inside the walled area, which included the downstream Pool of Siloam, with the specific purpose of withholding water from any besieging forces. Both the spring itself, and the pool at the end of the tunnel, would have been used by the inhabitants as water sources. Troops positioned outside the walls wouldn't have reached any of it, because even the overflow water released from the Pool of Siloam would have fully disappeared into a karstic system located right outside the southern tip of the city walls. In contrast to that, the previous water system did release all the water not used by the city population into the Kidron Valley to the east, where besieging troops could have taken advantage of it.The curving tunnel is 533 m long, and by using the 30 cm altitude difference between its two ends, which corresponds to a 0.6‰ gradient, the engineers managed to convey the water from the spring to the pool. According to the Siloam inscription, the tunnel was excavated by two teams, one starting at each end of the tunnel and then meeting in the middle. The inscription is partly unreadable at present, and may originally have conveyed more information than this. It is clear from the tunnel itself that several directional errors were made during its construction. Recent scholarship has discredited the idea that the tunnel may have been formed by substantially widening a pre-existing natural karst. How the Israelite engineers have dealt with the difficult feat of making two teams digging from opposite ends meet far underground, is still not fully understood, but some suggest that the two teams were directed from above by sound signals generated by hammering on the solid rock through which the tunnelers were digging.".
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- Siloam_tunnel wikiPageExternalLink A_New_Perspective_on_the_Various_Components_of_the_Siloam_Water_System_in_Jerusalem.
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- Siloam_tunnel wikiPageWikiLink Assyria.
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- Siloam_tunnel wikiPageWikiLink Category:Ancient_sites_in_Jerusalem.
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- Siloam_tunnel wikiPageWikiLink Category:City_of_David.
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- Siloam_tunnel wikiPageWikiLink Category:Siloam.
- Siloam_tunnel wikiPageWikiLink Category:Water_tunnels.
- Siloam_tunnel wikiPageWikiLink Charles_Warren.
- Siloam_tunnel wikiPageWikiLink City_of_David.
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- Siloam_tunnel wikiPageWikiLink Edward_Robinson_(scholar).
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- Siloam_tunnel wikiPageWikiLink Gihon_Spring.
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- Siloam_tunnel wikiPageWikiLink Jerusalem.
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- Siloam_tunnel wikiPageWikiLink Karst.
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- Siloam_tunnel wikiPageWikiLink List_of_artifacts_in_biblical_archaeology.
- Siloam_tunnel wikiPageWikiLink List_of_caves.
- Siloam_tunnel wikiPageWikiLink Middle_Bronze_Age.
- Siloam_tunnel wikiPageWikiLink Pool_of_Siloam.
- Siloam_tunnel wikiPageWikiLink Ronny_Reich.
- Siloam_tunnel wikiPageWikiLink Sennacherib.
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- Siloam_tunnel wikiPageWikiLink Tunnel_of_Eupalinos.
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- Siloam_tunnel wikiPageWikiLinkText "533-meter tunnel".
- Siloam_tunnel wikiPageWikiLinkText "Siloam tunnel".
- Siloam_tunnel wikiPageWikiLinkText "The Siloam tunnel".
- Siloam_tunnel wikiPageWikiLinkText "water tunnel".
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- Siloam_tunnel subject Category:Ancient_sites_in_Jerusalem.
- Siloam_tunnel subject Category:Buildings_and_structures_completed_in_the_8th_century_BC.
- Siloam_tunnel subject Category:City_of_David.
- Siloam_tunnel subject Category:History_of_Jerusalem.
- Siloam_tunnel subject Category:Siloam.
- Siloam_tunnel subject Category:Water_tunnels.
- Siloam_tunnel hypernym Tunnel.
- Siloam_tunnel point "31.772358 35.235673".
- Siloam_tunnel type RouteOfTransportation.
- Siloam_tunnel type SpatialThing.
- Siloam_tunnel comment "The Siloam Tunnel (Hebrew: נִקְבַּת השילוח, Nikbat HaShiloah), 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 (late 8th and early 7th century BCE) and corresponds to the waterworks mentioned in 2 Kings 20:20 in the Bible.".
- Siloam_tunnel label "Siloam tunnel".
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- Siloam_tunnel sameAs Tunnel_dxc3x89zxc3xa9chias.
- Siloam_tunnel sameAs נקבת_השילוח.
- Siloam_tunnel sameAs Ezekielov_tunel.
- Siloam_tunnel sameAs Terowongan_Hizkia.
- Siloam_tunnel sameAs Tunnel_di_Ezechia.
- Siloam_tunnel sameAs ഹെസക്കിയായുടെ_തുരങ്കം.
- Siloam_tunnel sameAs Siloamtunnel.
- Siloam_tunnel sameAs Hiskias_tunnel.
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- Siloam_tunnel sameAs m.0c4vmc.
- Siloam_tunnel sameAs Tunelul_lui_Ezechia.
- Siloam_tunnel sameAs Lagusan_ni_Hezekias.
- Siloam_tunnel sameAs Q1620682.
- Siloam_tunnel sameAs Q1620682.
- Siloam_tunnel lat "31.772358".
- Siloam_tunnel long "35.235673".