To get here I walked through Silwan (Biblical Siloam). There was a riot here last night because the State want to make some space for a Museum about King David here so they'd like to demolish a mere 22 Palestinian homes. 6 police and 22 locals were hurt.Zedekiah's Cave is a breath takingly huge cave. It's also called Solomon's Quarry, King Solomon used stone from here to build the 1st Temple. Unusually there's no church here! Its a long 230m dark cave (even with the lights very spooky).
Zedekiah, last King of Judah, may have run from here (see Jeremiah 52) before being caught, seeing his kids killed and then having his own eyes put out. The cracks in the ceiling let down water into a pool, you now know why they call it Zedekiah's Tears.
I lost a bet with Bettina (german) that England would win last night's game. I owe her a bag of M&Ms.
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