Hezekiah used the tunnel to block the water supply to the the Assyrians who were going to attack the city and were outside. About 27 centuries later the tunnel, was excated and found by archaeologists. A Biblical Siloam inscription was found in the tunnel proving that it was Hezekiah's Tunnel.
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