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Stakelbeck Tonight | Erick Stakelbeck: December 24, 2024 | Stakelbeck Tonight | December 19, 2024
- Tonight, it's part three of our
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- Very special stakelbeck tonight series, digging up the bible.
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- We're uncovering
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- Some of the most incredible archeological discoveries
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- That confirm the bible's accuracy and bring its stories
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- To life.
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- From the dead sea scrolls, the oldest biblical manuscripts
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- Ever found to the silver scrolls inscribed with the priestly
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- Blessing to the tel dan inscription, which provides
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- Historical evidence of king david's dynasty.
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- We'll also explore hezekiah's tunnel,
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- A remarkable feat of engineering straight out of the bible
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- And the seal of king hezekiah himself.
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- A personal connection
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- To one of the greatest of all biblical kings.
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- See why these spines are reshaping our understanding
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- Of the bible and its history.
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- Next.
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- Welcome to stakelbeck tonight.
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- I'm erick stakelbeck and this is part
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- Three of our three part series, digging up the bible.
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- Tonight, we're exploring one of the most
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- Monumental archeological discoveries of all time,
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- The dead sea scrolls
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- Found hidden deep in the case of qumran in the judean desert.
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- These ancient texts include some of the oldest known copies
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- Of the hebrew bible and provide a remarkable glimpse into
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- The world of the second temple period, the time of jesus.
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- These scrolls have reshaped
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- Our understanding of biblical history and prophecy.
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- And our good friend
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- Danny the digger herman joined us for a closer look.
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- Let's
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- Start with what exactly the dead sea scrolls are, danny
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- And by the way,
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- They were found in the cliffs just over our shoulders
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- Right here. between 1947 to 1956.
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- And the total of these 11 caves, over
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- 16,000 fragments of scrolls were uncovered.
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- 20 of them are more or less complete and intact.
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- The rest are little tiny pieces in some cases.
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- The fact that they were found in 1947, 1948
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- As the modern state of israel was reborn,
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- I think is very telling.
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- And here we are returning to our homeland
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- And finding texts by our ancestors left here
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- To be read again.
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- It's almost like a road map.
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- And by the way, we're not
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- Allowed in these caves, unfortunately.
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- The israeli antiquities authority has very strict rules,
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- But you can get a very, very clear view of them now.
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- Now, who found the scrolls?
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- This is a very interesting wrinkle to the story, danny,
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- Who actually found the scrolls in these caves?
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- Yes, the official version.
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- It was a chance find by two bedouins.
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- Winter of 1946.
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- They're wondering in this area, looking for a lost goat.
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- That's the official version.
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- I suspect that they may have been scouting for antiquities,
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- But one way or the other, they found a cave which is later
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- Listed as cave number one with ten jars.
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- Eight are empty.
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- One has a lot of brown soil in it, according to the report,
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- And the 10th one has seven wrapped scrolls.
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- Now they're not know what they're holding.
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- So they go to an antiquity dealer in bethlehem.
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- That's where the antiquities shops are to this day.
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- He, the first guy, takes a look at this until them guys,
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- You're messing,
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- You're taking a big risk because this is from a synagogue.
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- He could tell that it's hebrew writing
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- And you should take it back to the synagogue or both.
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- You and i will go into jail.
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- The british are still around. i'm reminding you.
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- Okay.
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- The bedouins, as you say in english. what?
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- Maybe they'll get a second opinion
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- And they go to another dealer known as mr.
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- Kundu, who has maybe less of an ethical, moral.
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- He decides to buy it.
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- He tries to play a poker face saying,
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- Oh, they're probably worth nothing.
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- He pays them the value of $28 for the first of the
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- Seven dead sea scrolls.
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- The greatest archeological find in the history of israel. yes.
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- And that's a that's a bargain. yeah. not bad
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- For 2000 year old manuscripts.
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- And then he goes to professor eliezer lipase, who?
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- Kennedy of the hebrew university
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- And the institute of archeology is a young student.
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- I used to work in the same office, by the way.
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- Yeah. and he introduces it to him.
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- And i can only imagine sicknick's jaw dropping
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- When he takes a first look at those scrolls,
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- Because as a scholar, he knew right away,
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- This is not modern hebrew, it's not even medieval hebrew.
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- That the shape of the letters was in use 2000 years ago,
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- The day that satanic ends up buying some of the scrolls.
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- He returns from bethlehem with the scrolls in his arm,
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- And when he opens them on the radio,
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- He hears something quite interesting the u.n.
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- Voting for the birth of the state of israel.
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- It was the 29th of november, 1947.
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- The day that the u.n.
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- Approves of the jews
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- To have a nation, a jew is holding
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- Manuscripts that were written by jews here 2000 years.
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- Ago, proving the ancestral claim. that's quite a moment,
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- Folks.
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- The dead sea scrolls
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- Are possibly the most important archeological discovery ever,
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- And no one better to unpack it
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- For us than the one and only danny the digger.
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- Herman.
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- Hey, we are digging up the bible and dating the dead
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- Sea scrolls, and you're here with us three nights in a row.
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- This is part three of our great series
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- For the dead sea scrolls.
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- Any recent information that sheds more light on them?
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- I wish i could report on new scrolls that have been found.
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- I wish because it's really such an amazing discovery
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- That is still considered the most significant
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- Archeological find ever made in the holy land to this day.
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- But the last scrolls were found in 1956.
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- We don't have any more scrolls.
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- We can, you know,
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- Study them again, use more techniques and so on.
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- But i've got some news
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- About one of the caves where scrolls were found.
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- One of my colleagues, dr.
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- Orrin gutfeld,
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- Has recently conducted a survey hoping to find more scrolls
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- In one of the caves that have been surveyed in the past.
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- He went and dug deeper and in the depth of the cave
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- He found not scrolls but
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- Fragments of jars and lids just of the same
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- Type is the cave number one,
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- Where the first scrolls were uncovered,
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- Meaning there were jars definitely coming from qumran
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- And probably for stashing more scrolls.
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- Now the question is, where are the scrolls?
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- So we have two candidates or maybe three.
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- First of all,
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- They may have been taken
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- By someone at some point of time,
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- And there's no documentation of it.
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- But there are two cases in documented history
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- Where ancient scrolls were reported to come from that area.
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- The first time was in the ninth century,
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- When there's some monk reporting on people finding
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- Ancient jewish manuscripts in caves near jericho.
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- It was probably scrolls that were uncovered then.
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- And then in the 19th century, there's a antiquity merchant
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- Called william moses.
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- Subpoena that shows up in germany around 1883
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- With 15 ancient scrolls or so he claims.
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- The problem is that he was selling a lot of stuff
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- Beforehand to the germans,
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- Which proved to be clearly cheap fakes.
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- So he had zero reputation.
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- But maybe this time he's holding something real.
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- The problem that he had such
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- A lousy reputation, the british museum and
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- Any of the german institutions were not willing to buy it.
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- And he was so heartbroken he actually committed suicide.
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- And then the pieces went on auction.
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- Some guy sold him, bought them for £10,
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- And then the founder of sydney university, i forget his name.
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- He bought it for about £25.
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- He's just like buying stuff.
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- And he took it to his home.
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- And no one in the scholarly world ever looked at it again.
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- Finding the the scrolls of the 1950s,
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- People said, wait, maybe shapiro actually had real scrolls.
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- Guess what?
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- The house of that guy from australia was burnt in 1899.
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- So if there were any genuine scrolls there,
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- They they evaporated.
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- But we have another cave of jars that once contained scrolls.
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- Wow. the mystery continues and you continue to unfold it.
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- David dig, herman.
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- It sounds like something out of raiders of the lost ark, right?
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- This is thrilling archeology, folks.
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- And guess what?
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- There's more of it to come with.
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- Danny the digger, herman.
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- Coming up,
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- We're taking you to two more incredible biblical sites
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- That provide powerful evidence for the truth of scripture.
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- First, the tell dawn inscription, a groundbreaking
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- Discovery that mentions the house of david.
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- That's king david and affirms the existence of israel's
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- Greatest king.
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- And then the silver scrolls,
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- The oldest known fragments of scripture inscribed
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- With a blessing straight from the book of numbers.
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- Don't go anywhere.
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- Don't go anywhere.
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- Welcome back to stakelbeck
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- Tonight's special series, digging up the bible,
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- The silver scrolls are tiny, delicate artifacts inscribed
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- With the priestly blessing from the book of numbers.
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- They are the oldest known
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- Written fragments of scripture dating back
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- To the seventh century b.c..
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- Let's take a closer look at
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- The silver scrolls.
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- Tell us about them.
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- To tell the story of the silver scrolls.
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- We have to go back to the year 1979.
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- Archeologist professor gabriel
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- Barkai is excavating a series of ancient burial caves.
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- Now, generally speaking, when archeologists
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- Come to a burial cave, it has long since been looted
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- By grave robbers looking for buried treasure.
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- And what happens here?
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- Professor barkai comes with a group of 12
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- And 13 year olds to come and excavate this area.
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- Not really expecting to find very much.
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- And there was 113 year old boy who was a bit
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- More, let's call it, rambunctious than the others.
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- He was always coming and bothering professor barkai.
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- So professor barkai says to him, says, here
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- Is this ancient cave over here
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- Again, adjacent to mount zion, the genome valley.
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- And he says,
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- Why don't you go into that cave, clean it up, and just
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- You do that for the next couple of hours.
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- 13 year old. kid, annoying as anything.
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- And what happens some time goes by
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- And all of a sudden professor barkai
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- Feels someone tugging at his shirt
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- And he turns around and he sees this boy, nathan,
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- And he's holding in his arms
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- Ancient pottery and jugs and for surprises.
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- Where did you get that from?
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- Because what
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- He told me to go into that cave over there
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- And it's just full of full of stuff.
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- Was a rocket because he couldn't believe it.
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- He says this wasn't the discovery of nathan's life.
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- So this was a discovery of my life.
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- And he's a renowned
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- Archeologist, gabriel barkai, here in israel.
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- Absolutely.
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- What had happened
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- Is perhaps because of an earthquake or some other
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- Disturbance, the roof of this ancient burial cave collapsed.
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- When the graves of this area were looted.
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- The grave robbers looked past this one
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- Because they didn't see that there was anything there.
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- They just thought there was nothing to be found.
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- Until this 13 year old boy comes along.
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- And what does he discover
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- Among ancient gold and silver jewelry and pottery and coins.
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- Discovers two tiny silver
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- Scrolls rolled up tightly like little cigarets.
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- And they didn't know what they were.
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- They look like amulets or pendants of some kind.
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- And so
- 00:11:47.839 --> 00:11:48.506
- They were trying to figure out
- 00:11:48.506 --> 00:11:49.607
- How can they open these scrolls dating back some two
- 00:11:49.607 --> 00:11:52.343
- And a half thousand years?
- 00:11:52.343 --> 00:11:53.845
- How can they open the scrolls without destroying them?
- 00:11:53.845 --> 00:11:56.548
- And they sent them to london and they couldn't do it there.
- 00:11:56.548 --> 00:11:58.850
- They sent them to germany. they couldn't do it there.
- 00:11:58.850 --> 00:12:01.186
- So they came back to the israel museum,
- 00:12:01.186 --> 00:12:03.388
- And it took a period of about three years
- 00:12:03.388 --> 00:12:05.657
- Until they figured out a technology
- 00:12:05.657 --> 00:12:07.826
- That would enable them to open the scrolls. wow.
- 00:12:07.826 --> 00:12:09.828
- So these extremely, extremely fragile, ancient scrolls.
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- Three years
- 00:12:14.799 --> 00:12:16.067
- Before they could actually open them and see what was inside.
- 00:12:16.067 --> 00:12:18.903
- And what they found was incredible what was inside.
- 00:12:18.903 --> 00:12:22.707
- When they open the scrolls, they find the earliest
- 00:12:22.707 --> 00:12:26.945
- Extra biblical source for verses straight out of the bible.
- 00:12:26.945 --> 00:12:31.049
- We're talking about verses from the book of numbers
- 00:12:31.049 --> 00:12:34.285
- Versus 24 through 26.
- 00:12:34.285 --> 00:12:36.988
- Chapter six.
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- We're talking about the priestly blessing.
- 00:12:37.922 --> 00:12:40.625
- May god keep them
- 00:12:40.625 --> 00:12:41.659
- Watch over the rite that we all know so well
- 00:12:41.659 --> 00:12:45.797
- Found just a few feet away from where we're standing
- 00:12:45.797 --> 00:12:49.968
- Right now, 400 years earlier than the dead sea scrolls.
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- The ironic priestly blessings which was said here
- 00:12:53.938 --> 00:12:57.408
- In the temple not far from us.
- 00:12:57.408 --> 00:12:59.844
- Absolutely amazing.
- 00:12:59.844 --> 00:13:01.145
- And the scrolls dated back roughly to.
- 00:13:01.145 --> 00:13:03.948
- Around the time of jeremiah two
- 00:13:03.948 --> 00:13:05.884
- And a half thousand years ago, first temple jerusalem.
- 00:13:05.884 --> 00:13:09.220
- That this discovery is very special to me.
- 00:13:09.220 --> 00:13:11.322
- I say that priestly blessing over my children, over my wife.
- 00:13:11.322 --> 00:13:14.492
- It's amazing. i don't know how it could get better.
- 00:13:14.492 --> 00:13:18.229
- The silver scrolls contain the priestly blessing
- 00:13:18.229 --> 00:13:20.999
- From the book of numbers chapter six verses 24 to 26.
- 00:13:20.999 --> 00:13:24.335
- And danny, you went to elaborate on that a bit more.
- 00:13:24.335 --> 00:13:27.038
- First of all, it's
- 00:13:27.038 --> 00:13:28.039
- Amazing, erick, that this text is still recited
- 00:13:28.039 --> 00:13:31.042
- In jewish synagogues to this day.
- 00:13:31.042 --> 00:13:33.311
- *speaking in hebrew*
- 00:13:33.311 --> 00:13:41.819
- I wish
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- To dedicate this specific prayer today to all the soldiers
- 00:13:43.221 --> 00:13:46.391
- That are fighting now in gaza, fighting in lebanon
- 00:13:46.391 --> 00:13:49.394
- For the existence of the state of israel.
- 00:13:49.394 --> 00:13:51.829
- We still have to fight for it, for its being.
- 00:13:51.829 --> 00:13:55.233
- And and you told me off camera
- 00:13:55.233 --> 00:13:57.835
- That you say this text in english to your daughters.
- 00:13:57.835 --> 00:14:00.838
- Occasionally, i pray over them.
- 00:14:00.838 --> 00:14:02.407
- The priestly blessing,
- 00:14:02.407 --> 00:14:03.708
- The ironic blessing, as some would call it.
- 00:14:03.708 --> 00:14:05.743
- May the lord bless you and keep you.
- 00:14:05.743 --> 00:14:07.378
- I say it frequently over both of them,
- 00:14:07.378 --> 00:14:09.948
- And that's a perfectly fitting prayer, danny, for the soldiers,
- 00:14:09.948 --> 00:14:12.817
- As you said right now, totally.
- 00:14:12.817 --> 00:14:14.319
- But this text has been proven archeologically
- 00:14:14.319 --> 00:14:17.855
- To be 2600 years old.
- 00:14:17.855 --> 00:14:21.292
- It's 600 years earlier than the dead sea scrolls.
- 00:14:21.292 --> 00:14:24.595
- Incredible.
- 00:14:24.595 --> 00:14:25.863
- It's just mind boggling to think that the jewish culture is so
- 00:14:25.863 --> 00:14:29.233
- Old, is so ancient, and we can find
- 00:14:29.233 --> 00:14:31.636
- Archeological evidence of its very beginning.
- 00:14:31.636 --> 00:14:34.172
- Yeah.
- 00:14:34.172 --> 00:14:34.806
- How many other cultures
- 00:14:34.806 --> 00:14:36.040
- Can can track their ancestry to so far back in time?
- 00:14:36.040 --> 00:14:39.410
- You know, it's an unbeatable combination.
- 00:14:39.410 --> 00:14:40.979
- We say it often, danny.
- 00:14:40.979 --> 00:14:41.980
- The truth of the bible
- 00:14:41.980 --> 00:14:43.114
- With irrefutable archeological and scientific evidence.
- 00:14:43.114 --> 00:14:46.117
- And danny the digger brings much of both.
- 00:14:46.117 --> 00:14:49.153
- Our next stop takes us to tel don,
- 00:14:49.153 --> 00:14:51.689
- Where
- 00:14:51.689 --> 00:14:52.490
- A stunning inscription was discovered
- 00:14:52.490 --> 00:14:53.758
- That shook the archeological world.
- 00:14:53.758 --> 00:14:56.127
- The tel don inscription is one of the earliest
- 00:14:56.127 --> 00:14:59.297
- Known references to the house of david.
- 00:14:59.297 --> 00:15:03.067
- Here's more.
- 00:15:03.067 --> 00:15:05.603
- We are now at the southern
- 00:15:05.603 --> 00:15:06.871
- Edge of tel dan, the gold prize from all the digs here.
- 00:15:06.871 --> 00:15:10.408
- All of this finds that were made is what was found close
- 00:15:10.408 --> 00:15:14.212
- To the wall over there in 1993 and inscription.
- 00:15:14.212 --> 00:15:19.384
- But behind that hillside, we found a big stone engraved,
- 00:15:19.384 --> 00:15:24.222
- Stellar meaning, an inscribed inscription
- 00:15:24.222 --> 00:15:27.992
- In a language very similar to hebrew.
- 00:15:27.992 --> 00:15:30.361
- It was placed by the aramaic king
- 00:15:30.361 --> 00:15:32.563
- After he conquered the city.
- 00:15:32.563 --> 00:15:34.966
- And his name is not mentioned.
- 00:15:34.966 --> 00:15:36.334
- But it's quite clear that we're talking about israel.
- 00:15:36.334 --> 00:15:39.170
- The bible tells us about israel.
- 00:15:39.170 --> 00:15:40.738
- The king of aram plotting with jehu.
- 00:15:40.738 --> 00:15:44.042
- And this is what we come up with from combining
- 00:15:44.042 --> 00:15:46.477
- The biblical source and that inscription
- 00:15:46.477 --> 00:15:48.579
- Of how they plotted to conquer the northern part of israel.
- 00:15:48.579 --> 00:15:51.849
- And so that jail will also take over.
- 00:15:51.849 --> 00:15:53.651
- Jay who, by the way,
- 00:15:53.651 --> 00:15:54.819
- Killed jezebel and over to that kingdom,
- 00:15:54.819 --> 00:15:57.021
- That line, the line of ahab. yes.
- 00:15:57.021 --> 00:15:58.856
- And he also knocked down a lot of pagan shrines.
- 00:15:58.856 --> 00:16:02.360
- So from a biblical point of view, he's a good rebel. yes.
- 00:16:02.360 --> 00:16:05.463
- And that's
- 00:16:05.463 --> 00:16:06.697
- Why he's also quoted right here, because he probably took over.
- 00:16:06.697 --> 00:16:09.867
- He probably knocked down
- 00:16:09.867 --> 00:16:11.369
- The standing stones
- 00:16:11.369 --> 00:16:12.637
- That were placed next to the gate here beforehand.
- 00:16:12.637 --> 00:16:16.974
- But back to the inscription, which you have said, if i'm not
- 00:16:16.974 --> 00:16:19.477
- Mistaken, is one of the five most important
- 00:16:19.477 --> 00:16:22.847
- Archeological discoveries ever made in israel.
- 00:16:22.847 --> 00:16:25.817
- Tony, that's saying something, especially coming from you.
- 00:16:25.817 --> 00:16:28.586
- Totally.
- 00:16:28.586 --> 00:16:29.720
- It should be in the same level as the dead sea scrolls.
- 00:16:29.720 --> 00:16:31.789
- Okay. tell us.
- 00:16:31.789 --> 00:16:32.690
- It's just one monument, one inscription.
- 00:16:32.690 --> 00:16:35.293
- Why so, erick?
- 00:16:35.293 --> 00:16:37.328
- Because that king boese and how he kills
- 00:16:37.328 --> 00:16:40.565
- Both the king of israel and the king of judah.
- 00:16:40.565 --> 00:16:44.702
- But while he describes the king of israel as johann
- 00:16:44.702 --> 00:16:47.572
- Malachi, israel, joachim king of israel, a
- 00:16:47.572 --> 00:16:52.276
- The king of judah, he doesn't label as king of judah,
- 00:16:52.276 --> 00:16:54.712
- But he labels him as a crazy out of the house of david.
- 00:16:54.712 --> 00:16:59.350
- King david. king david.
- 00:16:59.350 --> 00:17:00.952
- For the first time, we find an inscription from the irene age
- 00:17:00.952 --> 00:17:05.189
- Relating to david. wow.
- 00:17:05.189 --> 00:17:07.725
- That figure, that
- 00:17:07.725 --> 00:17:08.793
- Founder of the davidic dynasty that jesus came from
- 00:17:08.793 --> 00:17:12.330
- Is finally validated in local biblical archeology
- 00:17:12.330 --> 00:17:16.167
- That is contemporary, almost contemporary
- 00:17:16.167 --> 00:17:18.803
- To the time of david.
- 00:17:18.803 --> 00:17:19.804
- I mean,
- 00:17:19.804 --> 00:17:21.038
- It's from 150 years later, but it's almost from his very time.
- 00:17:21.038 --> 00:17:24.842
- You have to figure that david's legend by that time had spread.
- 00:17:24.842 --> 00:17:28.279
- So not not a surprise that they would mention
- 00:17:28.279 --> 00:17:30.381
- The house of david on this inscription.
- 00:17:30.381 --> 00:17:34.986
- Up next, we're heading to hezekiah's tunnel in jerusalem,
- 00:17:34.986 --> 00:17:38.089
- A remarkable engineering feat straight from the bible.
- 00:17:38.089 --> 00:17:41.225
- Plus, we'll uncover the seal of hezekiah himself.
- 00:17:41.225 --> 00:17:44.996
- Stay with us for more.
- 00:17:44.996 --> 00:17:46.631
- Digging up the bible.
- 00:17:46.631 --> 00:17:52.017
- Digging up the bible.
- 00:17:52.017 --> 00:17:56.753
- Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight
- 00:17:57.487 --> 00:17:59.122
- And our special series, digging up the bible.
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- Up next, we turn our attention to two extraordinary finds
- 00:18:01.658 --> 00:18:05.495
- Linked to king hezekiah, his tunnel, and his royal seal.
- 00:18:05.495 --> 00:18:09.966
- Now, hezekiah's tunnel is a marvel
- 00:18:09.966 --> 00:18:12.068
- Of ancient engineering mentioned in the bible
- 00:18:12.068 --> 00:18:14.437
- As part of his preparations to protect jerusalem
- 00:18:14.437 --> 00:18:17.707
- From an assyrian siege.
- 00:18:17.707 --> 00:18:19.609
- And his seal provides a personal and tangible connection
- 00:18:19.609 --> 00:18:23.947
- To this faithful king.
- 00:18:23.947 --> 00:18:27.116
- 1880, a small arab child
- 00:18:27.116 --> 00:18:29.319
- Is walking through a dark tunnel filled with water
- 00:18:29.319 --> 00:18:33.389
- Being drawn from the giant's spring,
- 00:18:33.389 --> 00:18:35.391
- The spring that has been flowing for thousands of years,
- 00:18:35.391 --> 00:18:38.528
- Going back to the time of abraham all the way till today.
- 00:18:38.528 --> 00:18:42.899
- And this boy is walking through the tunnel
- 00:18:42.899 --> 00:18:44.867
- And he gets about halfway through the tunnel.
- 00:18:44.867 --> 00:18:46.436
- It's dark. maybe as a small candle.
- 00:18:46.436 --> 00:18:48.504
- He has his hands on the wall and he feels a stone
- 00:18:48.504 --> 00:18:52.442
- That is cut into the tunnel wall.
- 00:18:52.442 --> 00:18:55.612
- And he realizes it is an inscription.
- 00:18:55.612 --> 00:18:58.314
- And archeologists comment.
- 00:18:58.314 --> 00:19:00.850
- It's during the time that the ottomans are here,
- 00:19:00.850 --> 00:19:02.852
- They pull it out
- 00:19:02.852 --> 00:19:04.087
- And there is ancient hebrew writing on this inscription,
- 00:19:04.087 --> 00:19:08.024
- And it recounts a story of two teams of engineers
- 00:19:08.024 --> 00:19:11.928
- Who are engineer using a tunnel 533 meters in length.
- 00:19:11.928 --> 00:19:16.699
- And it tells the story of the moment
- 00:19:16.699 --> 00:19:19.335
- That these two teams, some 2700 years ago
- 00:19:19.335 --> 00:19:23.406
- When they meet in the middle.
- 00:19:23.406 --> 00:19:25.808
- Now, keep in mind, no jeeps, no radar.
- 00:19:25.808 --> 00:19:29.946
- And somehow these two teams of engineers make it work.
- 00:19:29.946 --> 00:19:32.715
- But what's the significance of the tunnel?
- 00:19:32.715 --> 00:19:34.550
- Or for that, we need the bible.
- 00:19:34.550 --> 00:19:36.152
- Whose tunnel was. this?
- 00:19:36.152 --> 00:19:37.654
- That's what the bible's going to tell us.
- 00:19:37.654 --> 00:19:38.888
- If you look in second, king's second chronicles
- 00:19:38.888 --> 00:19:41.758
- The book of isaiah
- 00:19:41.758 --> 00:19:42.692
- Tells the story when the assyrians
- 00:19:42.692 --> 00:19:44.661
- They've exiled the kingdom of israel
- 00:19:44.661 --> 00:19:46.729
- And now they come for the kingdom of judah
- 00:19:46.729 --> 00:19:48.798
- And they've gone through city
- 00:19:48.798 --> 00:19:50.166
- After city, lachish and all the others.
- 00:19:50.166 --> 00:19:52.769
- And all that's left is jerusalem.
- 00:19:52.769 --> 00:19:53.903
- The major prize, the capital city of jerusalem.
- 00:19:53.903 --> 00:19:56.739
- Exactly. hezekiah is the king.
- 00:19:56.739 --> 00:19:58.941
- And hezekiah says in bible.
- 00:19:58.941 --> 00:20:00.376
- In the bible,
- 00:20:00.376 --> 00:20:01.611
- Why should the assyrians come to jerusalem and find much water?
- 00:20:01.611 --> 00:20:04.781
- The water is situated outside the walls of the city.
- 00:20:04.781 --> 00:20:06.783
- Hezekiah says.
- 00:20:06.783 --> 00:20:07.483
- We need to divert
- 00:20:07.483 --> 00:20:08.685
- This spring to flow entirely within the walls of jerusalem.
- 00:20:08.685 --> 00:20:12.488
- And so they engineer this project,
- 00:20:12.488 --> 00:20:15.158
- And here is the moment engraved in stone for you to see.
- 00:20:15.158 --> 00:20:20.430
- The moment when the two teams of diggers,
- 00:20:20.430 --> 00:20:22.398
- They come and they meet each other
- 00:20:22.398 --> 00:20:24.534
- And they embrace and they celebrate.
- 00:20:24.534 --> 00:20:26.202
- And this says an ancient hebrew script.
- 00:20:26.202 --> 00:20:28.371
- Oh, my god, we did it.
- 00:20:28.371 --> 00:20:30.273
- We did it. we did it.
- 00:20:30.273 --> 00:20:31.407
- This was a watershed moment.
- 00:20:31.407 --> 00:20:34.377
- Literally, the future that we are living
- 00:20:34.377 --> 00:20:36.479
- Today was hanging in the balance
- 00:20:36.479 --> 00:20:38.514
- And the archeology and the bible come together
- 00:20:38.514 --> 00:20:41.317
- To tell this amazing story that was in fact real.
- 00:20:41.317 --> 00:20:45.788
- Found right over here, announced a little more than a year ago,
- 00:20:45.788 --> 00:20:49.859
- Was the discovery of a seal, a seal
- 00:20:49.859 --> 00:20:53.062
- Bearing the name of a figure from the bible,
- 00:20:53.062 --> 00:20:55.331
- But not just any figure.
- 00:20:55.331 --> 00:20:56.699
- The name on the seal dating back 2700 years ago
- 00:20:56.699 --> 00:21:00.536
- Was hezekiah, a son of a huws
- 00:21:00.536 --> 00:21:03.373
- King of judah.
- 00:21:03.373 --> 00:21:06.008
- Wow. king hezekiah,
- 00:21:06.008 --> 00:21:07.143
- One of the great figures of the old testament.
- 00:21:07.143 --> 00:21:08.878
- Ze'ev a direct descendant of king david.
- 00:21:08.878 --> 00:21:11.814
- That is absolutely correct.
- 00:21:11.814 --> 00:21:13.616
- Someone who was facing challenges
- 00:21:13.616 --> 00:21:15.184
- Similar to the ones faced by the jewish people
- 00:21:15.184 --> 00:21:17.687
- Here today in jerusalem.
- 00:21:17.687 --> 00:21:19.155
- The assyrians inaccurate become tried to break the connection
- 00:21:19.155 --> 00:21:22.625
- Of the jewish people with jerusalem.
- 00:21:22.625 --> 00:21:25.461
- And just like 2700 years ago, they failed
- 00:21:25.461 --> 00:21:29.265
- Those who tried to do the same thing
- 00:21:29.265 --> 00:21:30.700
- Today will have no more success. that's right.
- 00:21:30.700 --> 00:21:32.635
- You know, it's interesting.
- 00:21:32.635 --> 00:21:33.836
- King hezekiah, as you said, that's surrounded by enemies
- 00:21:33.836 --> 00:21:36.439
- On all sides.
- 00:21:36.439 --> 00:21:37.540
- But one of the good kings
- 00:21:37.540 --> 00:21:39.742
- Without a doubt, the record will show.
- 00:21:39.742 --> 00:21:41.377
- And tell us a little bit, ze'ev, about the seal of hezekiah.
- 00:21:41.377 --> 00:21:44.280
- What's on it?
- 00:21:44.280 --> 00:21:45.248
- So the seals about the size of a fingernail
- 00:21:45.248 --> 00:21:47.550
- On it, aside from his name,
- 00:21:47.550 --> 00:21:49.318
- His father's name, that he was king of judah.
- 00:21:49.318 --> 00:21:51.120
- You have an egyptian ankh, a symbol showing the alliance
- 00:21:51.120 --> 00:21:54.957
- Perhaps, that existed between hezekiah and egypt,
- 00:21:54.957 --> 00:21:59.162
- Both fighting against the assyrians at the time.
- 00:21:59.162 --> 00:22:02.365
- Thank you so much.
- 00:22:02.365 --> 00:22:03.433
- This was a blast, my friend. we can't thank you.
- 00:22:03.433 --> 00:22:05.401
- And the city of david enough.
- 00:22:05.401 --> 00:22:06.936
- It's one of our favorite places
- 00:22:06.936 --> 00:22:08.137
- In all of israel is the city of david.
- 00:22:08.137 --> 00:22:11.073
- Coming up, my final thoughts on what we've learned
- 00:22:11.073 --> 00:22:13.543
- During this special three part series,
- 00:22:13.543 --> 00:22:15.778
- Digging up the bible and what yet to be revealed.
- 00:22:15.778 --> 00:22:19.582
- That's next.
- 00:22:19.582 --> 00:22:25.020
- That's next.
- 00:22:25.020 --> 00:22:30.394
- Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight
- 00:22:31.128 --> 00:22:32.496
- As we wrap up this special three part
- 00:22:32.496 --> 00:22:34.231
- Series, digging up the bible,
- 00:22:34.231 --> 00:22:36.033
- I can't think of better timing, folks,
- 00:22:36.033 --> 00:22:37.701
- Because these archeological discoveries
- 00:22:37.701 --> 00:22:39.336
- That we've revealed over the past three nights
- 00:22:39.336 --> 00:22:41.338
- Really bridge the gap between ancient israel
- 00:22:41.338 --> 00:22:44.274
- And the body of christ in the modern day,
- 00:22:44.274 --> 00:22:46.343
- Which brings us to tonight, christmas eve
- 00:22:46.343 --> 00:22:49.046
- And the book of isaiah, chapter nine, verse six.
- 00:22:49.046 --> 00:22:51.215
- This is what it's all about
- 00:22:51.215 --> 00:22:52.749
- For to us, a child is born to us, a son is given
- 00:22:52.749 --> 00:22:56.119
- And the government will be on his shoulders
- 00:22:56.119 --> 00:22:58.355
- And he will be called wonderful counselor, mighty god,
- 00:22:58.355 --> 00:23:01.625
- Everlasting father, prince of peace.
- 00:23:01.625 --> 00:23:04.661
- That's king jesus. and he is seen throughout.
- 00:23:04.661 --> 00:23:07.331
- He's the common thread throughout
- 00:23:07.331 --> 00:23:08.799
- All of those archeological discoveries
- 00:23:08.799 --> 00:23:10.767
- That we've shown you the past few nights.
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- So merry christmas and join us tomorrow night for christmas
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- In bethlehem.
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- You won't want to miss it until then.
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- God bless you and we'll see you soon.
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