II Kings 20:20 and II Chronicles 32:2-4, 30 record that King Hezekiah’s men engineered this watercourse near the end of the 8th century AD. These biblical references were preserved and recorded in biblical manuscripts and translations for millennia even though human knowledge of the whereabouts of the watercourse had been forgotten. As the BAR article notes, “…Hezekiah’s tunnel was discovered in the mid-19th century…” It was not until the mid-19th century that human knowledge “caught up to the Bible” and physically confirmed the accuracy of the biblical accounts about this watercourse’s construction. In 1880, a famous inscription was found at the site where the two teams of tunnelers finally met each other to connect either end of Hezekiah’s underground watercourse.
Posted on: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 11:16:56 +0000
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