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scholars do believe there is an ark inside but that it s only a replica from the middle ages. and down in the caves below jerusalem we consider another possibility. the ark never left but was instead hidden away in this underground labyrinth. so you think it remained in jerusalem. yes. we know from the bible another thing. one of the kings put it somewhere in the tunnels. a tunnel like this? nobody knows. is there any evidence of this no evidence. no evidence at all. only many stories around. reporter: if only these walls could speak. they do, however, appear almost to weep. and their tears are said to tell a powerful story about the destruction of jerusalem. the name of this corner is tzedakiah s tears. tears of the king. the tears of the king. tzedakiah was the last king of judea. tears for the destruction of the temple.
to crush them. prophet david does win against the goliath. it s not only about him but the underprivileged, the underdog. the weak is rendered victorious ultimately. reporter: according to the bible, david s triumph continued. he recaptured the ark of the covenant from the philistines. it had held the ten commandments. and he brought together the warring tribes of the 12 sons of jacob to form a nation. even today the flag of modern israel, founded 3,000 years after his reign, bears the symbol known as the star of david. and jerusalem is the place he chose as his capital, making it not only a holy city but a political one too. there s evidence that king david really lived. just 20 years ago in northern israel archaeologists discovered
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ark of the covenant. the 10th century b.c. is the last time anybody actually really sees it according to the biblical tradition. now, there are other stories. and these all are related to the babylonian destruction of the city in 536 b.c., that maybe somebody spirited the ark out of the city just ahead of the destruction. reporter: many believe these underground tunnels were used to secretly transport the ark out of jerusalem when the city was under siege. and when the babylonian invaders took detailed inventory of the treasures they plundered, something was missing. the babylonians took all the treasures from jerusalem, it was not in the list anymore. the ark? yes. the ark was not in the list. there are all kinds of possibilities as to where it ended up. reporter: so we went in