Geologist gets to the bottom of a biblical mystery "When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib intended to attack Jerusalem, he planned with his civil and military officers to stop up the water of the springs outside the city . . . `Why should the kings of Assyria come here and find much water?' they asked . . . Hezekiah closed the upper outlet of the waters of Gihon and directed them down to the west side of the city of David." -- 2 Chronicles 32: 2-4,30

From: The Boston Globe | Date: December 16, 1991| Author: David L. Chandler, Globe staff | Copyright information

Thanks to King Hezekiah's rapid action and clever engineering in 701 B.C., Jerusalem's water supply was protected and the invading Assyrians, frustrated in their siege, eventually gave up and went home.

Centuries later, Hezekiah's solution presented a perplexing puzzle for archeologists: How, with primitive tools and little time, could the Israelites have built such a complex waterworks -- a long winding tunnel that carried water from a spring outside the city walls to a reservoir loc...

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