{"id":62073,"date":"2019-09-01T08:05:32","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T05:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=62073"},"modified":"2023-03-22T21:51:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T19:51:28","slug":"king-solomon-brings-the-ark-of-the-covenant-into-the-temple-in-jerusalem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/king-solomon-brings-the-ark-of-the-covenant-into-the-temple-in-jerusalem\/","title":{"rendered":"King Solomon Brings The Ark Of The Covenant Into The Temple In Jerusalem"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[670,363,437,838],"acf":{"old_id":"62073","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33877,"related_cahpter":"295","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"But has some trouble along the way...\u00a0","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our chapter relates how King Solomon brought the Ark of the Covenant into the recently completed Temple in Jerusalem. We are told that \u201cThe priests brought the Ark of the Lord\u2019s Covenant to its place underneath the wings of the cherubim\u2026in the Holy of Holies. For the cherubim had their wings spread out over the place of the Ark\u2026\u201d (I Kings 8:6-7). Our Chapter concludes with the celebration of the Feast of Sukkot in the newly dedicated Temple in Jerusalem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Talmud (Shabbat 30a) describes in detail the difficulties King Solomon encountered in trying repeatedly to install the Ark in the Holy of Holies in the innermost sanctum of the Temple. When Solomon tried to bring the Ark into the Temple, the gates of the Holy of Holies stuck to each other and could not be opened. According to Midrash Shemot Rabbah 8:1 the problem was that Solomon had made the Ark ten cubits wide and that was the exact width of the entrance to the Temple, which did not permit the Ark to pass through the doorway together with the people carrying it on either side.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Talmud goes on to depict Solomon as reciting the twenty-four expressions of supplication included in his inaugural prayer (in our Chapter and II Chronicles, Chapter 6, according to Rashi to Shabbat 30a), but the gates remained closed. He then called out the verse: \u201cO gates, lift up your heads! Up high, you everlasting doors, so the King of glory may come in!\u201d (Psalms 27:7). But instead of opening, the gates ran after Solomon to swallow him, crying out: \u201cWho is the King of glory?!\u201d (Psalms 27:8), thinking that Solomon was referring to himself as the \u201cKing of Glory\u201d! Realizing the misunderstanding Solomon quickly replied with the continuation of the same verse: \u201cThe Lord, mighty and valiant\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Having fended off the gates, Solomon tried again, reciting the end of the same Psalm, but this time more fully: \u201cO gates, lift up your heads! Lift them up, you everlasting doors, so the King of glory may come in! Who is the King of glory? \u2014 The Lord of hosts. He is the King of glory! Selah\u201d (Psalms 27:9-10). But the gates remained closed. Finally, Solomon cried out: \u201cO Lord God, turn not away the face of Your anointed one. Remember the faithfulness of David, Your servant\u201d (II Chronicles 6:42)! 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