July
26
/ 2015
For over 300 years, Zedekiah’s Cave was the stuff of legend, another story out of Jerusalem. However, one day in the winter of 1854, American missionary James Turner Barclay was walking his dog with his son along the outskirts of the city. Suddenly, the dog, in hot pursuit of a fox, sifted through some dirt alongside the Old City wall and disappeared through an opening in the earth. Barclay called to the animal, whistling to it, but there was no response. His son continued searching at the foot of the rocky cliffs and came upon a deep reservoir created by the flow of water from recent rainfall. Peering inside, he heard barking emanating from the depths of the earth. The
