Episode 19 - The Broad Wall
from Museum Bible Tours Podcast Hosted by Museum Bible Tours
By the year 740 B.C.E. the invading Assyrian armies swept through the land, led by King Sennacherib, and had conquered many Israelite cities including Samaria, the capital of the ten-tribe kingdom of Israel. Now eight years later Sennacherib is determined to destroy the city of Jerusalem. King Hezekiah of the Kingdom of Judah is frantically preparing his capital city for the impending attack as described in the Bible. The Bible also describes Hezekiah as building walls as part of his defensive strategy. Are there any archeological finds from this time period? Yes, 1969, Israeli archeologist and Professor Nahman Avigad discovered remains from this period. One of the excavations revealed a section of a massive wall. The wall was most impressive at 23 feet thick and 20 feet high! It was suggested that it might be the “Broad Wall” referred to by Nehemiah some 250 years after the time of Hezekiah. Today it lies exposed as an open-air centerpiece of the Jewish Quarter of the Old City.
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