Scripture: Isaiah 22:10; 2 Chronicles 32:5; Nehemiah 3:8
Preparing for Assyria, Hezekiah strengthens Jerusalem's walls. Isaiah says houses were torn down to fortify the wall.
In 1970–71 Nahman Avigad uncovered a stretch of city wall about 7 meters thick in Jerusalem's Jewish Quarter, dated to the late 8th century BCE. It was built straight through the foundations of houses that had been demolished to make way for it.
Jewish Quarter, JerusalemView on OpenStreetMap
