277 David Becomes King The first is a wide circular rock - car ved shaft with a spiral stair way leading down toward a gradient tunnel descending to the water table . The second is a tunnel descending underground to a spring outside the city at its foothill . In peace - time, the citizens would go through the tunnel to draw water, and the spring also feeds tunnels and a pool for watering the fields and supplying water to people an d l i v esto ck o ut s i de in the fields . In times of war and siege, however, the citizens went dow n through the underground tunnel to draw water from a small chamber around t h e s p r i n g , w h i le t h e spring area was blocked by a wall, and camouflaged in order to hide the system from the enemies outside . Following Prichard, several scholars tend to identif y the circular where the , ) ברכת גבעון ( rock - carved shaft with the “Pool of Gibeon” two armies of Israel and Judah, led by Abner and Joab respectively, met and sat down on opposite sides of ...
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