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This article will include a discussion on the archaeological evidence for the existence of King David and the size of his kingdom. According to Merrill F. Unger, Archaeology and the Reign of David, as a result of an effective and compelling investigation, the discovery of the enormous borders of the City of David was questionable. However, sections of the Jebusite city wall and ramparts were thought to have included the acclaimed “Great Western Gate.” The Western Gate is an ancient limestone wall in the Old City of Jerusalem. It is a fairly small section of an extended ancient retaining wall. Theoretically, it was thought to have been raised as part of the development of the Second Jewish Temple by Herod the Great. According to Unger, …show more content…
Fritz suggest, even if David and /or Solomon realized the feats credited to them in the Bible, no sources would have revealed their names, hence; we can neither attest nor refute the biblical account of the United Monarchy. Fritz, details accounts of the first millennium intrastate events appear for the first time in the ninth century BCE. He submits there are no extrabiblical sources that mention either David or Solomon. However, with one exception; in the tenth-century engravings of the topographical list of Pharaoh Shishak. The Egyptian king left chronicled places he conquered in the Asiatic campaign. A conclusive examination of topographical list points to a campaign that was undeniably fixed against Israel and the non-Judahite parts of the Negev, eluding almost entirely the Kingdom of Judah. Shishak’s crusade is mentioned to in Kgs …show more content…
These discoveries were exposed by the ongoing excavations in the ancient municipalities; this uncovering would consist of a new segment of the ancient waterworks connected to the Gihon spring. The spring was the main water connection to the aboriginal City of David. The Gihon Springs was positioned at the bottom of the eastern slope of the city in the Kidron Valley. The Gihon Springs delivered water year round by spouting a number of times a day. This water then ran into the Kidron Valley. In the earliest days of Jerusalem’s conquest, reservoirs were constructed to gather the water from the Gihon
This article will include a discussion on the archaeological evidence for the existence of King David and the size of his kingdom. According to Merrill F. Unger, Archaeology and the Reign of David, as a result of an effective and compelling investigation, the discovery of the enormous borders of the City of David was questionable. However, sections of the Jebusite city wall and ramparts were thought to have included the acclaimed “Great Western Gate.” The Western Gate is an ancient limestone wall in the Old City of Jerusalem. It is a fairly small section of an extended ancient retaining wall. Theoretically, it was thought to have been raised as part of the development of the Second Jewish Temple by Herod the Great. According to Unger, …show more content…
Fritz suggest, even if David and /or Solomon realized the feats credited to them in the Bible, no sources would have revealed their names, hence; we can neither attest nor refute the biblical account of the United Monarchy. Fritz, details accounts of the first millennium intrastate events appear for the first time in the ninth century BCE. He submits there are no extrabiblical sources that mention either David or Solomon. However, with one exception; in the tenth-century engravings of the topographical list of Pharaoh Shishak. The Egyptian king left chronicled places he conquered in the Asiatic campaign. A conclusive examination of topographical list points to a campaign that was undeniably fixed against Israel and the non-Judahite parts of the Negev, eluding almost entirely the Kingdom of Judah. Shishak’s crusade is mentioned to in Kgs …show more content…
These discoveries were exposed by the ongoing excavations in the ancient municipalities; this uncovering would consist of a new segment of the ancient waterworks connected to the Gihon spring. The spring was the main water connection to the aboriginal City of David. The Gihon Springs was positioned at the bottom of the eastern slope of the city in the Kidron Valley. The Gihon Springs delivered water year round by spouting a number of times a day. This water then ran into the Kidron Valley. In the earliest days of Jerusalem’s conquest, reservoirs were constructed to gather the water from the Gihon