Reasons to Believe

Hezekiah’s Tunnel

September 1, 2003
By Dr. Hugh Ross

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Skeptics have long denied that the tunnel built to move water from the Gihon spring to the Pool of Siloam in Jerusalem is the tunnel, described in 2 Kings 20:20 and 2 Chronicles 32:3-4, that King Hezekiah commanded to be built as a defense against a large invading Assyrian army. British and Israeli scientists used radiocarbon and uranium-thorium dating to establish that this engineering marvel indeed was built during Hezekiah’s reign.

Amos Frumkin, Aryeh Shimron, and Jeff Rosenbaum, “Radiometric Dating of the Siloam Tunnel, Jerusalem,” Nature, 425 (2003), pp. 169-171.

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v425/n6954/full/nature01875.html

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Dr. Hugh Ross

Reasons to Believe emerged from my passion to research, develop, and proclaim the most powerful new reasons to believe in Christ as Creator, Lord, and Savior and to use those new reasons to reach people for Christ. Read more about Dr. Hugh Ross.