Returning to the hotel at night, I spent the first part of our collection of the tunnel to Hezekiah, and its meaning: not just the events related to his pad, but with those consequences, which brings with it the discovery of the City of David. We are all descended from the city walls to the source Tihon, "I said. We know that David was looking for a more convenient and is likely to secure a better place for the capital than Hebron. Why, then, to fight for fortress Jebusites, if a few hundred feet to the north have a higher place, to dominate the castle? And why Jebusite from the beginning have not picked this high? 
Frankly, all these rhetorical questions, so after a small discussion, I suggested to my companions to return to the Bible. 
To understand the significance of the place, "I said, it is necessary to understand the role of the ark of the covenant in Israel's history, as well as its religious and national values for the descendants of the twelve tribes, who came from Egypt to the promised land. It has been four centuries after they came to Canaan and settled on this land (on both sides of the Jordan River), and all this time did not stop an altercation with a disgruntled and those who worship other gods of its neighbors to the north (arameyami in Damascus), east (Ammonites ) and south (edomityanami). But the most bitter enemy of Israelis living in the southern coastal plain. These were the Philistines ( "Sea people" as its called in Egypt). Indeed, for the first time he appears on the pages of the Bible in the episode when he takes the challenge giant Goliath (Philistine), and kills him. 
During the wanderings in the Sinai Peninsula Israel carried with them the ark of the covenant - the box is covered with gold-and-out and crowned by two gold cherub (in Fig. 127 depicts his alleged appearance). Placed in the desert in a portable tent, he served dvirom (literally: the speaker), through which God turned to Moses. When it was necessary to cross the Jordan River and enter the land of Canaan, the priests have strengthened Ark special sixth and entered with him into a river. Ark forced water rasstupitsya Jordan, and Israel has safely crossed to the other side (The Book of Joshua, Chapter 3 and 4). Then, during the critical battles - at the time, mostly with the Philistines - Ark brought to the battlefield, and he was impressed with the assistance of the wonders of the enemies of the Israelis. Now, it has not been for six and возили in the wagon, as shown on a stone frieze of the synagogue in Capernaum, where Jesus prayed (Fig. 128). It is possible that during one of the battles of the Philistines captured the ark. But the Philistines, and the inhabitants of the place, which brought the ark of the covenant, to suffer God's punishment, and they decided to give Ark Israelis. Nevertheless, and Israeli, toucheth the wagon stood at the ark, to fix it, fell dead.