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Solomon's shamir, according to Eberhard Werner Happel, 1707 [1] In the Gemara, the shamir (Hebrew: שָׁמִיר šāmīr) is a worm or a substance that had the power to cut through or disintegrate stone, iron and diamond. King Solomon is said to have used it in the building of the first Temple in Jerusalem in place of cutting tools. For ...
Solomon's Temple, also known as the First Temple (Hebrew: בַּיִת רִאשׁוֹן , romanized: Bayyit Rīšōn, lit. 'First Temple'), was a biblical Temple in Jerusalem believed to have existed between the 10th and 6th centuries BCE .
Jerusalem fell after a 30-month siege, following which the Babylonians systematically destroyed the city and Solomon's Temple. [1] [2] The Kingdom of Judah was dissolved and many of its inhabitants exiled to Babylon. During the late 7th century BC, Judah became a vassal kingdom of Babylon.
The Talmud applied the name "shamir" to a mythical worm which was quite powerful to cut through stone, so it was used by King Solomon to build the First Temple in Jerusalem. [18] The name shares the same three consonants in Hebrew as "Samaria" and is on the same locality "on Mount Ephraim", so it is perhaps the older name of Samaria. [19]
The term First Temple is customarily used to describe the Temple of the pre-exilic period, which is thought to have been destroyed by the Babylonian conquest. It is described in the Bible as having been built by King Solomon and is understood to have been constructed with its Holy of Holies centered on a stone hilltop now known as the Foundation Stone which had been a traditional focus of ...
The pendant, made of bronze, shows King Solomon, according to a news release issued by Turkey's Karabük University. The ancient ruler is seen riding a horse and holding a spear while defeating ...
King Solomon sinned by acquiring many foreign wives and horses because he thought he knew the reason for the biblical prohibition and thought it did not apply to him. When King Solomon married Pharaoh's daughter, a sandbank formed which eventually formed the "great nation of Rome"—the nation that destroyed Herod's Temple. Solomon gradually ...
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