DailyCelestialChallenge: Wednesday- Structure.
Hello everyone who is part of this community especially @steemchurch, again in this fantastic #celestialchallenge initiative by @sirknight. Wednesday-structure.
The first temple of Jerusalem was built by King Solomon around the year 960 BC, It was located on the esplanade of Mount Moriah, in the city of Jerusalem, the intention of the construction of this temple was to replace the tabernacle as cult center of the Jews, it is said that King Solomon went to Hiram, king of Tire in Phenicia, to get builders and skillful workers in the stone, metal, cedar wood and cypress of Lebanon. According to Jewish tradition the Temple was at the highest point of Mount Moriah, while the royal rooms were built to the south of its enclosure and on a lower level.
the construction of this temple can be found with more details of its size, plan and adornment in the books of 1 kings: 6,7 and 2 chronicles: 3,4 (read full) here we will quote some versicles:
1 kings 6: 3,10
3 And the porch before the temple of the house was twenty cubits long, according to the breadth of the house, and its width before the house was ten cubits.
4 And he made windows wide on the inside, and narrow on the outside.
5 He also built apartments next to the walls of the house and around it, attached to the walls of the house around the temple and the most holy place; and made side rooms around.
6 The lower room was five cubits wide, and the middle one was six cubits wide, and the third was seven cubits wide, because outside it had been made of stepped walls around the house, so as not to embed the beams in the walls. walls of the house.
7 And when the house was built, they built it of stones that they had already finished, so that when they built it, neither hammers nor axes were heard in the house, nor any other iron instrument.
8 The door to the middle room was on the right side of the house; and went up a spiral staircase to the middle room, and from there to the third.
9 He built the house and finished it; and he covered the house with cedar beams and boards.
10 And so he built apartments five cubits high around the whole house, all of which rested on the house with cedar beams.
According to the Bible it was a very well built temple with solid materials and double proportions the Tabernacle of Moses, the construction of this temple was the most important work of the reign of Solomon, it was an ideal building conceived by God, a reference and source of inspiration in design and architectural matters.
This majestic work was destroyed by the troops of the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II in the year 586 before Christ, this led to the exile and captivity of the Hebrews in Babylon.