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To: tomahawk
David's Temple was where? Then there's Solomon's Temple. It was destroyed by the Egyptians. It was replaced. The replacement was damaged by the Babylonians. It was repaired and expanded. Later on we have Herod's Temple. There was a replacement either planned or built by Bar Kochba.

So, which 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Temple are you talking about?

(BTW, I'm pretty sure I've missed some of the Temples in a long series of Temples ~ then there's the Temple where the Samaritans made sacrifice ~ )

56 posted on 06/11/2005 2:46:58 PM PDT by muawiyah (q)
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To: muawiyah

The crowning achievement of King Solomon's reign was the erection of a magnificent Temple (Beit ha-Midkash) in Jerusalem. His father, King David, had wanted to build a great Temple for God a generation earlier, as a permanent resting place for the Ark containing the Ten Commandments. A divine edict, however, had forbidden him from doing so. "You will not build a house for My name," God said to [David], "for you are a man of battles and have shed blood" (I Chronicles 28:3).

The Bible's description of Solomon's Temple suggests that the inside ceiling was was 180 feet long, 90 feet wide, and 50 feet high. The highest point on the Temple that King Solomon built was actually 120 cubits tall (about 20 stories or about 207 feet). According to the Tanach (II Chronicles):

3:3 The length by cubits after the ancient measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.
3:4 And the porch that was before the house, the length of it, according to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and the height a hundred and twenty; and he overlaid it within with pure gold.

He spares no expense in the building's creation. He orders vast quantities of cedar from King Hiram of Tyre (I Kings 5:20­25), has huge blocks of the choicest stone quarried, and commands that the building's foundation be laid with hewn stone. To complete the massive project, he imposes forced labor on all his subjects, drafting people for work shifts lasting a month at a time. Some 3,300 officials are appointed to oversee the Temple's erection (5:27­30). Solomon assumes such heavy debts in building the Temple that he is forced to pay off King Hiram with twenty towns in the Galilee (I Kings 9:11).

When the Temple is completed, Solomon inaugurates it with prayer and sacrifice, and even invites non­Jews to come and pray there. He urges God to pay particular heed to their prayers: "Thus all the peoples of the earth will know Your name and revere You, as does Your people Israel; and they will recognize that Your name is attached to this House that I have built" (I Kings 8:43).

Until the Temple was destroyed by the Babylonians some four hundred years later, in 586 B.C.E., sacrifice was the predominant mode of divine service there. Seventy years later, a second Temple was built on the same site, and sacrifices again resumed. During the first century B.C.E., Herod greatly enlarged and expanded this Temple. The Second Temple was destroyed by the Romans in 70 C.E., after the failure of the Great Revolt.


63 posted on 06/11/2005 2:53:09 PM PDT by tomahawk (http://tomahawkblog.blogspot.com/)
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To: muawiyah
"David's Temple was where? Then there's Solomon's Temple. It was destroyed by the Egyptians. It was replaced."

You are really showing your total ignorance of Biblical History. There was NO David's Temple. He was not permitted by God to built it because he shed blood. That task was given to his son Solomon. That Temple was destroyed by the Babylonians under Nebuchadnezzar in 586 B.C.. It was rebuilt by the Jews under the edict of King Cyrus of Persia: "Thus says Cyrus, King of Persian: All the kingdoms of the Earth the LORD God of Heaven has given to me, and He has commanded me to build Him a house at Jerusalem (Yerushalayim), which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all His People? May his God be with him! Now let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the House of the LORD God of Israel (He is God), which is in Jerusalem. And whoever remains in any place where he sojourns, let the men of his place help him with silver and gold, with goods, and livestock, besides the freewill offerings for the House of GOD which is in Jerusalem." Ezra 1:14. The Second Temple was inhanced by Herod, and it was destroyed 40 years after Jesus began His minstry by General Titus Flavius Vespasian in 70 A.D.

111 posted on 06/11/2005 4:13:37 PM PDT by Iam1ru1-2
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