Old Testament Foundatiosn with Philip Yancey/Old Testament Foundatiosn with Philip Yancey - Disc 1.iso/pc/data/m11h20.dir/00083_ht1.text.txt

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Solomon's temple:

"Solomon contracted with Hiram of Tyre for cedar wood and supplied a levy of 10,000 workers per month to assist in cutting and transporting it.  Cedar was considered a fine wood for such building.  Hiram took responsibility for conveying the logs by sea to a Palestinian port of Solomon's choosing.  He also supplied stonecutters to help prepare the great quantity of stone needed (1 Kings 5:18).

"Actual building began in the spring of Solomon's fourth year (c. 966 B.C.; 1 Kings 6:1), and was completed seven years later in the fall (1 Kings 6:38).  The location was on Mt. Moriah (2 Chron. 3:1), the site of Araunah's threshing floor where the plague had stopped in David's day (2 Sam. 24:16-25), and most likely the place where Abraham long before had been commanded to sacrifice Isaac (Gen. 22:2).  Mt. Moriah was immediately adjacent to David's city on the north.

"The plan of the Temple proper called for a building similar to the Tabernacle, but twice the size.  It was ninety feet long and thirty feet wide, containing the same two divisions: the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies, occupying two-thirds and one-third of the total respectively.  It was built of stone, but paneled with cedar overlaid with gold.  The Holy of Holies housed the Ark of the Covenant with its mercy seat and two cherubim.  Two additional cherubim were of carved olive wood overlaid with gold and stood fifteen feet high (1 Kings 6:23-28; 2 Chron. 3:10-13).  In the Holy Place were the altar of incense or 'golden altar' (1 Kings 7:48; 2 Chron. 4:8).  A difference from the Tabernacle existed in that before the Holy Place was a porch thirty feet wide and ten feet deep, and on the porch two bronze pillars called Jachin and Boaz (1 Kings 7:15-21)."  (Leon J. Wood, A Survey of Israel's History, © 1970 Zondervan, pp. 295-6)