Editing Hezekiah (section)

====Siloam inscription====
[[File:Siloe5.jpg|thumb|The [[Siloam pool]]]]
The [[Siloam Tunnel]] was chiseled through 533 meters (1,750 feet) of solid rock<ref name=ArchBible/> to provide Jerusalem underground access to the waters of the [[Gihon Spring]] or [[Siloam Pool]], which lay outside the city.

The [[Siloam Inscription]] from the Siloam Tunnel is now in the [[Istanbul Archaeology Museums|Istanbul Archaeology Museum]]. It "commemorates the dramatic moment when the two original teams of tunnelers, digging with picks from opposite ends of the tunnel, met each other".<ref name=ArchBible/> It is "[o]ne of the most important ancient Hebrew inscriptions ever discovered."<ref name=ArchBible/> Finkelstein and Mazar cite this tunnel as an example of Jerusalem's impressive state-level power at the time.

Archaeologists like [[William G. Dever]] have pointed at archaeological evidence for the [[iconoclasm]] during the period of Hezekiah's reign.{{sfn|Moulis|2019|pp=179—80}} The central cult room of the temple at [[Arad, Israel|Arad]], a royal Judean fortress, was deliberately and carefully dismantled, "with the altars and massebot" concealed "beneath a Str. 8 plaster floor". This [[stratum]] correlates with the late 8th century; Dever concludes that "the deliberate dismantling of the temple and its replacement by another structure in the days of Hezekiah is an archeological fact. I see no reason for skepticism here."<ref>Dever, William G. (2005) ''[[Did God Have a Wife?]]: Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel'' (Eerdmans), pp. 174, 175.</ref>