King David’s Tomb–A Closer Look
The Hebrew Bible makes it clear that King David and his successors were buried somewhere on the narrow ridge of the City of David near the Gihon Spring where the earliest city of Jerusalem was located. But where exactly? In an early-20th-century excavation, Raymond Weill believed he had discovered the royal necropolis, but many have challenged the identification. Was Weill right?
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These drawings are published in The City of David: Revisiting Early Excavations by Raymond Weill and L.-H. Vincent.
This article was originally published in Bible History Daily on October 09, 2012
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A.S.K. org. believes David’s tomb was on the southern wall of the temple which was on the city of David (David Sieloff & all), I agree. His palace is in Givati, & his tent was next to it.
It became consecrated ground, Solomon built the temple on top. The podium on Pilgrim’s Road may have had a statue commemorating David & his tomb’s entrance, since
torn down by the Romans. In Jesus, C.C. – June 8, 2020.
In Ephraim, Gilead, of two caves , to where he laid his two sons, as they had wished their bones, like his mother and only sister, to be layed next to each other, he also wanted to laid with them. His body was promised to not decay by Thy Most High.
[…] and missing body, witnesses to the resurrected Christ, and that by comparison everyone knew where David’s body was interred. Anyone wanting to flatten Christianity at that moment in history had only to produce […]
30°58′14.57″N 031°53′10.18″E
These coordinates are for Tanis, capital of Egypt, about 800 BC.
Sorry Rose I should have said, to place David’s tomb in Egypt is a complete misunderstanding of the Bible, history and archaeological evidence.
Are you nuts?
They are looking in the wrong place. According to the book of Ezra modern Jerusalem was not the site of the ‘first temple’. Ezra laid the foundation for the temple in modern Jerusalem. Until then modern Jerusalem was an abandoned ancient city with broken down walls. (Nehemiah 2)
Ezra 3:6
From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt offerings unto the LORD. But the foundation of the temple of the LORD was not yet laid.
Ezra then says the building stopped all throughout the reign of Cyrus and wasn’t completed until the 6th year of Darius. According to Nehemiah 2:1-3 the Temple was still not completed by the 20th year of Artaxerxes. This means the second Temple wasn’t completed until the 6th year of Darius II or about 418 BCE.
All the stories about Solomon in the book of Kings, (i.e. cedars from Lebanon, 666 talents of gold, pharaoh’s daughter etc.), all happened at the temple in the unexcavated buried city at the Google Earth coordinates below. They have already excavated the Kings Sepulchres to the North.
30°58′14.57″N 031°53′10.18″E
Believe it or not, the evidence from archeology, the Old Testament and Herodotus all point here, nothing points to modern Jerusalem (other than the name) until after Cyrus the Great.
Why look for David in modern Jerusalem?
Shalom,
Rose