Solomon’s Temple
The First Temple, built by Solomon in Jerusalem and filled with the glory of the LORD. It stood nearly four centuries until Babylon burned it and carried Judah into exile.
1 Kings 6 · 2 Kings 25
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Start Reading“Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.”
2 Chronicles 9:17
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A portable tent of worship built at Sinai (Exodus 25–40). Every part pointed beyond itself — a shadow of the Christ to come. Tap a piece of furniture to learn what it was and what it meant.
When Israel settled the land, the tent gave way to stone. Three temples stood on the same holy ground.
The First Temple, built by Solomon in Jerusalem and filled with the glory of the LORD. It stood nearly four centuries until Babylon burned it and carried Judah into exile.
1 Kings 6 · 2 Kings 25
Rebuilt by the returned exiles under Zerubbabel after Cyrus’s decree. Humbler than the first, yet it marked God restoring His people to the land and to worship.
Ezra 3–6 · Haggai 2
Herod’s vast expansion of the Second Temple — the courts Jesus walked and taught in. Rome destroyed it in AD 70, just as Jesus had foretold.
Luke 21:5–6 · John 2:19–21