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Solomon's Temple, also known as the First Temple, was the main temple in ancient Jerusalem, on the Temple Mount (also known as Mount Zion), before its destruction by Nebuchadnezzar II after the Siege of Jerusalem of 587 BCE.
According to the Hebrew Bible, the temple was constructed under Solomon, king of the Israelites. This would date its construction to the 10th century BCE, although it is possible that an earlier Jebusite sanctuary had stood on the site. During the kingdom of Judah, the temple was dedicated to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and housed the Ark of the Covenant. Rabbinic sources state that the First Temple stood for 410 years and, based on the 2nd-century work Seder Olam Rabbah, place construction in 832 BCE and destruction in 422 BCE (3338 AM), 165 years later than secular estimates.
Because of the religious sensitivities involved, and the politically volatile situation in East Jerusalem, only limited archaeological surveys of the Temple Mount have been conducted. Since no excavations have been allowed on the Temple Mount during modern times, there is no direct archaeological evidence for the existence of Solomon's Temple, and no mentions of it, in the surviving contemporary extra-biblical literature. An Ivory pomegranate mentions priests in the house of YHWH, and an inscription recording the Temple's restoration under Jehoash have appeared on the antiquities market, but the authenticy of both have been challenged and they remain the subject of controversy.
Solomon (Hebrew: שְׁלֹמֹה, Modern Shlomo Tiberian Šəlōmō ISO 259-3 Šlomo; Arabic: سليمان Sulaymān, also colloquially: Silimān; Greek: Σολομών Solomōn), according to the Book of Kings and the Book of Chronicles, a King of Israel and according to the Talmud one of the 48 prophets, is identified as the son of David, also called Jedidiah (Hebrew יְדִידְיָהּ) in 2 Samuel 12:25, and is described as the third king of the United Monarchy, and the final king before the northern Kingdom of Israel and the southern Kingdom of Judah split; following the split his patrilineal descendants ruled over Judah alone. In the Qur'an, he is considered as a major Prophet, known as Sulaiman, son of David.
The Hebrew Bible credits Solomon as the builder of the First Temple in Jerusalem, and portrays him as great in wisdom, wealth, and power, but ultimately as a king whose sin, including idolatry and turning away from Yahweh, leads to the kingdom being torn in two during the reign of his son Rehoboam. Solomon is the subject of many other later references and legends.
LYRICS:
He Shared the Same Bed
Exchanging secretions in sheets with Sheba
Bathing in the Bubbling Waters of AcquaViva
Sun, Glinting off the Gold on his Chest
Inside the House of Prayer
Two Massive Pillars of Brass
As you Standing in a Square
Display the Might
Symbolic was the Veil inside the Inner House
700 Women in a Line
He Splacked and did Espouse
Bring down the Blouse
And Under the Rubble the Treasure isn't there
The Symbolism so Deep
The Metaphors so Multi-Layered
Precise and Placed
The Covenant concealed inside the Hidden Ark
We should all be a little Bit like Solomon
And Leave a Mark
With folding Floors
An Amulet Refract the Light to Open Doors
Archeological Evidence was Sabotaged
By Plundering Moors
Images were graven they Slaven and all for Judah
Polytheistic Images of God no Halleluja's
Had they Stables underground
That Were Housing a 1000 Oxes
Women Wearing Suits from the Flesh of a Desert foxes
All the Artifacts are resting in the Hands of all these Evil Creeps
The ones who Know the Secrets
Are Helping to Keep the Weak Asleep
So now you know (It was Buried under Solomon's Temple)
And there your Go (It was Buried under Solomon's Temple)