Special Treat!!! City of David!

Sign outside Ir David




Inside the Palace of David.....


This afternoon we were honored by an invitation from Prime Minister Netanyahu (hope I spelled it correctly)to a private tour of The City of David! Well, it really wasn't an invitation to Rex and I, it was for Former Congressman Bob McEwan and his wife Liz, but they graciously invited us to join them..... :)

Over 3000 years ago King David came to Jerusalem and captured the Jebusite city that lay on the slopes of Mount Moriyah, establishing it as "Ir David", the eternal capital of the Jewish People. Here's a shout out to the girls in my David bible study......I got to see the well/water source that David's soldiers risked their lives for in order to bring David some Jerusalem water!!! HOW COOL IS THAT?

Inside this archeological site, I was also priviledged to stand in the ruins of King David's Palace, view the aqueduct sited in 2 Samuel 5:8 which was used by David and his soldiers to capture Jerusalem, walk on a portion of the Herodian Road, view the Gihon Spring (believed to be the holiest spring inthe world), and walk through a portion of Hezekiah's tunnel! I also got to see the exact location where Solomon was annointed King at the ripe old age of 13! Wowza!