Village of Silwan. It was a graveyard for the City of David.
"By the eighth century BCE, the Judean city had spread to the west across the Central Valley and beyond. King Hezekiah built a new wall aroudn this expanded city (part of which can be seen in the current Jewish Quarter of the Old City). He also had his engineers hew a tunnel from the Gihon Spring under the City of David to bring water farther west into the city. These actions may have been precipitated by an encroaching threat of Assyrian invasion. The tunnel is about 1,750 feet long, and if walkers scrutinize the left wall about twenty feet before the end, they can see where the Siloam inscription had been, describing how the engineers hewed from both ends and met at this spot." An Illustrated Guide to the Holy Land by Lamontte M. Luker
Where Jesus healed the man born blind, John 9.
Heading back to Area A and our hotel
Paul and I took an adventure on our own once we got back to the hotel. We walked up the hill to check out more of Beit Jala and The Church of St. Nicholas. Bethlehem is about 25% Christians, but Beit Jala is about 75%, mosting Greek Orthodox. According to tradition the church is built on a cave where St. Nicholas spent four years living.
Cars drive on this steep street, as we soon found out.
Bacon!!!!
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