Friday, September 23, 2011




We moved down from Mount Carmel into the Jezreel Valley. There were many fields rich with agriculture. Oozi, our bus driver who did not know any English, took us to Megiddo. The city was ancient ruins having twenty-five layers of civilization, but archeologists removed the top nine layers in most areas. On the sixteenth layer was Solomon’s city. We walked down streets and saw steps that Solomon himself walked. We saw a Karat tree. This tree inspired the diamond karat weight because its seeds weigh exactly one karat. In Megiddo we moved to the cliff and once again, cast our eyes over the Jezreel Valley from a different view. The people were so small, cars were driving down the roads, farmers were busy in the fields, and planes were taking off from the military airport. It was so much to take in. Our tour guide, Mrs. Susan Marcus, took us to a water cistern that was accessible from inside the city.  When Solomon was king there was peace all over the land, thus, it was safe fo the women to walk around the outside of the city to get water.  The water cistern in Megiddo at that time was only accessible from outside the city walls. When Jeraboam was king, the peace ended. Jeraboam devised a way to get to the water from inside the city. In just two years, he had dug through 60 meters of solid rock to get to the same well. We walked through this tunnel and it was large and the walls were very smooth. Its remarkable that people back then could have such ability.

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