Dave met Mark, our Navajo friend, for coffee in the morning and then we walked to Zedekiah’s Cave, also known as King Solomon’s Quarry. It is located between the Damascus Gate and Herod’s Gate beneath the Muslim section of the old city. It is believed that Solomon used this site to quarry stones for the first temple (I Kings 6:7). The cave is 9000 square meters of caverns, 230 feet in length with an average height of a 4 story building. Zedekiah was the last Judean King (he did evil in the sight of the Lord) and he was captured by the Chaldeans and made to watch the execution of his sons before his eyes were put out and he was brought to Babylon to die (II Kings 25:7). There is a small pool at the far end of the cave that collects the seeping water from the cave’s rocks known as Zedekiah’s tears.
We walked home via Jaffa Square and several bookstores. At the first bookstore we met a wonderful Messianic Jew who pastors a congregation that we hope to visit next Sabbath. At the second bookstore we met another excited believer that moved to Israel from Montana several years ago. He is a friend of someone we met on our first tour of Israel in 2003. Small world.
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