The Temple of Solomon

(2 Chronicles 25:5.) Some of the inhabitants fled into the Temple to find safety there from the bloodthirsty sword of the enraged enemy. But even in the House of the Sanctuary, no person was spared. (2 Chronicles 36:17.) The priests were strangled, the altar desecrated, the treasure of the House of the Lord plundered, the bronze sea and the large bronze pillars at the House of the Lord broken into pieces. (2 Kings 25:13, 17.) The walls were torn down and leveled to the ground, and everything else burned with fire, so that through the Chaldeans the magnificent building of the Temple of Solomon, famous throughout the entire Orient, after it had stood not much longer than four hundred years, was destroyed from its foundations and completely laid in ashes.

II.

Model of Solomon's Temple and Presentation

of all those pieces / which were to

be seen upon the same.

1. Mount Moriah original Hebrew: הַר הַמּוֹרִיָה (Har ha-Moriah), which was 500 cubits long and wide, upon which the Temple was built. (2 Chronicles 3:1.) On this mountain, Abraham was to slaughter and sacrifice his son. (Genesis 22:2.) Here also, during an outbreak of pestilence, David saw the angel of the Lord and, at God’s command, built an altar. (2 Samuel 24:16, 18.) This place where the altar and Temple were built belonged, however, to Arnan In English biblical translations, this figure is usually called Araunah or Ornan., the Jebusite, a pagan German: Heyden. The author highlights that the Temple site was purchased from a non-Jew (a Gentile) to symbolize the future inclusion of all nations in the Church., from whom King David purchased the site. By this, the calling of the pagans to the Church of God in the New Testament was already clearly indicated at that time. In Abraham's time, this mountain was desolate, uneven, and full of thorns and hedges. For when Abraham had already bound his son Isaac and intended to slaughter and sacrifice him, God called out to him: "Do not lay your hand on the boy, and do nothing to him, for now I know that you fear God and have not spared your only son for my sake"; then Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw a ram behind him hanging by its horns in the thicket. (Genesis 22:12, 13.) Solomon, however, had this uneven and thorn-filled mountain leveled into many beautiful plains through the application of great labor, so that one could [go] step-by-step toward the Sanctuary of the Lord