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Where Was Solomon’s Palace?

We know where King David’s city was. It was on the little 10–12-acre ridge south of the Temple Mount, just outside the Old City walls. On this all are agreed. This little ridge is still called the City of David.

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Footnotes

1.

“The Devil Is Not So Black as He Is Painted: BAR Interviews Israel Finkelstein,” BAR 36:03.

2.

See David Ussishkin, “Jezreel—Where Jezebel Was Thrown to the Dogs,” BAR 36:04.

Endnotes

1.

Ussishkin, “The Temple Mount in Jerusalem,” pp. 473–483.

2.

See Nahman Avigad, Discovering Jerusalem (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 1980), p. 28.

3.

Kenyon, Digging Up Jerusalem, p. 117.

4.

Leen Ritmeyer, The Quest (Jerusalem: Carta, 2006), p. 168.