Step deeper into the excavation at the Ophel, where history and Scripture come to life 🔍🏛️ These walls may have stood when Solomon built the very foundations of Jerusalem 📖✨ Follow for more on the Davidson Center in Jerusalem! 🎥: Jim Scudder, Jr. #HolyLand #Pilgrimage #Jerusalem #SouthernSteps | Spirit of the Holy Land

At the Davidson Center in Jerusalem, the Ophel is actively being excavated, uncovering chambered walls dating back to the time of Solomon🏺✨ Will you come and experience this ancient history up close for yourself? 🙌📖 "Here is the account of the forced labor King Solomon conscripted to build the Lord’s temple, his own palace, the terraces, the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, Megiddo and Gezer."( 1 Kings 9:15) 🎥: Jim Scudder, Jr. #HolyLand #Pilgrimage #Jerusalem #SouthernSteps #DavidsonCenter #Op

In this part of the Ophel, archaeologists uncovered pithoi, large storage jars with inscriptions dating back to Solomon’s time. 🏺🔍 These vessels were destroyed during the Babylonian destruction of the First Temple, a moment we remember each 9th of Av, when sorrow meets history in the very soil of Jerusalem 📖🔥 Follow for more on the uncovering of the Davidson Center in Jerusalem! 🎥: Jim Scudder, Jr. #HolyLand #Pilgrimage #Jerusalem #SouthernSteps | Spirit of the Holy Land