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  2. Solomon's Temple - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  3. Archaeological remnants of the Jerusalem Temple - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Throne of Solomon - Wikipedia

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    Strasbourg Cathedral Depiction of Solomon's throne (lower half), from a Speculum Humanae Salvationis, around 1360 King Solomon in front of his throne, receiving the Queen of Sheba (painting by Edward Poynter, 1890) The Throne of Solomon is the throne of King Solomon in the Hebrew Bible, and is a motif in Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

  5. Molten Sea - Wikipedia

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    Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) believe that the molten sea in Solomon's Temple was a baptismal font. As explained by church leader Bruce R. McConkie: In Solomon's Temple a large molten sea of brass was placed on the backs of 12 brazen oxen, these oxen being symbolical of the 12 tribes of Israel.

  6. Holy of Holies - Wikipedia

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    According to the Hebrew Bible, the Ark contained the Ten Commandments, which were given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai. The first Temple in Jerusalem, called Solomon's Temple, was said to have been built by King Solomon to keep the Ark. Ancient Jewish traditions viewed the Holy of Holies as the spiritual junction of Heaven and Earth, the "axis ...

  7. Solomon's shamir - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  8. Solomon - Wikipedia

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    Solomon (/ ˈ s ɒ l ə m ə n /), [a] also called Jedidiah, [b] was the fourth monarch of the Kingdom of Israel and Judah, according to the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament. [4] [5] The successor of his father David, he is described as having been the penultimate ruler of all Twelve Tribes of Israel under an amalgamated Israel and Judah.

  9. Temple Scroll - Wikipedia

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    The document is written in the form of a revelation from God to Moses, thereby with the intended meaning that this is the more appropriate temple which was revealed to Moses, and that Moses' instructions were either forgotten or ignored when Solomon built the First Temple in Jerusalem. In other words, in the mind of the Scroll writer, "Solomon ...