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Four hundred and eighty years after the Israelites left Egypt, Solomon begins to build the Temple. Where did he get the plans? Back in Exodus, God was very clear with Moses about the plans for the Tabernacle:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u2026and let them make Me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them. Exactly as I show you\u2014the pattern of the Tabernacle and the pattern of all its furnishings\u2014so shall you make it\u201d (Exodus 25:8-9).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Solomon does not get any similar directive. In the last chapter he told Hiram that his father wanted to build the Temple, but God told David he could not because he was surrounded by war:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But now the LORD my God has given me respite all around; there is no adversary and no mischance. and so I propose to build a house for the name of the LORD my God, as the LORD promised my father David, saying, \u2018Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place, shall build the house for My name\u2019 (IKings 5:18-19).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Solomon on his own decides to build the Temple based on what Nathan told David back in II Samuel. God does not direct Solomon to build the Temple, nor does God provide the details. God first appears well into the construction when he tells Solomon:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u2018With regard to this House you are building\u2014if you follow My laws and observe My rules and faithfully keep My commandments, I will fulfill for you the promise that I gave to your father David. I will dwell among the children of Israel, and I will never forsake My people Israel.\u2019 (6:12-13).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

God uses the same language from Exodus, \u201cI will dwell amongst them,\u201d but this time the promise only happens after the building is substantially completed. The difference could be how God sees the nation each time. In the wilderness, the people had been freed from slavery and they had just worshiped the Golden Calf. The young nation was in no position to do anything on their own. God needed to hold their hand each step of the way. God showed the people exactly what type of Tabernacle God wanted. This was also a way to avoid having the people create another idol. They had to know this was from God.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

During the time of Solomon, the people were more established. God wanted the Temple to come organically from the people. This includes both the design and the desire. Solomon came to the conclusion on his own that it was time to build the Temple his father had not been able to build, and he set about putting all the effort into doing so. 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\u201cIn the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites left the land of Egypt, in the month of Ziv\u2014that is, the second month\u2014in the fourth year of his reign over Israel, Solomon began to build the House of the LORD\u201d(v. 1).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Our chapter stipulates that construction on the Temple began 480 years after the Exodus. Our challenge is to see how many of those years can be accounted for by ordinary, textual, means.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

First of all, we know with certainty that the period between the Exodus and entering the Land of Israel was 40 years. We also know that Saul ruled for 2 years, and David for 40 years, which, along with Solomon\u2019s 4, account, with certitude, for 86 years. It is with the intervening period, reflecting, the era of Joshua and the Judges, that we run into a problem: Even if we had a record of how many years each judge ruled, we do not know whether they were all consecutive\u2014rather than overlapping\u2014nor do we know how long of a gap there may have been between even consecutive tenures.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

However, we do have a significant piece of chronological information, courtesy of Jephthah. The King of Ammon had raised the issue of the legitimacy of Israel\u2019s right to the land east of the Jordan, claiming that \u201cwhen Israel came from Egypt, they seized the land that is mine\u201d (Judges 11:13). In his reply, Jephthah argued that \u201cIsrael has been inhabiting [Trans-Jordan] for three hundred years, why have you not tried to recover them all this time?\u201d (26). That would close our gap to a bit less than a century, and we could assume that the outstanding time was subsumed in the period between Jephthah and the inauguration of Saul.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

An alternative explanation, albeit less traditional, would stipulate that the number 480 is not exact but symbolic, or representational (\u201ctypological\u201d). Given that 40 years is an oft-recurring number in biblical chronology (we have noted two such examples in our own brief accounting above), 480 could be understood as a formulaic way of saying 40 X 12\u2014another typological number. In fact, if we return to the priestly genealogy of 1 Chronicles 5 that we cited in chapter 4<\/a>, and we count backwards from Azariah \u201cwho was the priest in the House that Solomon built\u201d (36), we arrive at Phineas, son of Elazar, son of Aaron, a contemporary of the Exodus. 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Smack in the middle of construction on the Holy Temple, God suddenly sends a message to Solomon: <\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cWith regard to this House you are building\u2014if you follow My laws and observe My rules and faithfully keep My commandments, I will fulfill for you the promise that I gave to your father David; I will abide among the children of Israel, and I will never forsake My people Israel\u201d (6:12-13). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

It\u2019s a one-sided caution, with no mention of the possibility or consequence of <\/span>not<\/span><\/em> following God\u2019s laws, rules, and commandments \u2013 but the hint of negativity is present in that \u201cif,\u201d leaving a bit of an ominous taste in the reader\u2019s mouth. This taste is especially strong for those readers who have read far enough to know that Solomon will indeed make some serious mistakes and that God will indeed eventually step aside from the Temple.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why the interruption; why taint the excitement of this momentous construction with a dire warning?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Abarbanel suggests that because Solomon was working so hard to make everything stable and firm, using the biggest and best materials to ensure his Temple would last forever, he needed a reminder that there\u2019s more to the sustainability of God\u2019s house than the physical structure. \u201cIts lastingness depends on whether you and your successors follow My laws\u201d; the strongest physical edifice can collapse like straw, along with its function as a focal point for God\u2019s presence among His people, if those spiritual conditions aren\u2019t met.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Further, Abarbanel sees a bit of foreshadowing in this warning: God is not just reminding Solomon of the conditions, but hinting that they will one day not be met: \u201cIf you follow in My laws\u201d \u2013 meaning, one day you won\u2019t. You may think you\u2019ve built your personal relationship with God out of the strongest metaphorical stones and beams, but that will soon crumble, paving the way for the eventual collapse of God\u2019s house and the national relationship it represents.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Yet \u2013 the next verse tells us that Solomon continues construction, with no indication that he reacted to the message at all. While some read verse 14 as stating that Solomon completed the Temple, Abarbanel argues that he in fact has not yet completed it, and the point is rather that he continued <\/span>towards<\/em> <\/span>completion \u2013 i.e. that despite the prophecy, despite the hint that the structure into which he was devoting so many resources would not last forever, his enthusiasm for the project continued unabated.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In Abarbanel\u2019s view, the point of recording this brief prophecy in the middle of the account of the Temple\u2019s construction is exactly to illustrate this quality of setting one\u2019s sights high and pursuing those dreams \u201cas if one would never die, but would live forever.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The uncertainty of the future \u2013 even the certainty that a good thing will come to an end \u2013 does not erase the value of one\u2019s wholehearted efforts in the present.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":61843,"alt":"","title":"1kings6-caution","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings6-caution.png","width":1280,"height":853,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings6-caution-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings6-caution-300x200.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings6-caution-768x512.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings6-caution-1024x682.png","large-width":1024,"large-height":682,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings6-caution.png","1536x1536-width":1280,"1536x1536-height":853,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings6-caution.png","2048x2048-width":1280,"2048x2048-height":853,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings6-caution-1200x800.png","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":800,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings6-caution-630x420.png","home_baner-width":630,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"","tile_main_caption":"Divine Warnings And Foreshadowings","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"But the certainty that a good thing will come to an end does not erase the value of one\u2019s wholehearted efforts in the present","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":61843,"alt":"","title":"1kings6-caution","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings6-caution.png","width":1280,"height":853,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings6-caution-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings6-caution-300x200.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings6-caution-768x512.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings6-caution-1024x682.png","large-width":1024,"large-height":682,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings6-caution.png","1536x1536-width":1280,"1536x1536-height":853,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings6-caution.png","2048x2048-width":1280,"2048x2048-height":853,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings6-caution-1200x800.png","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":800,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings6-caution-630x420.png","home_baner-width":630,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"I Kings","chapter":"6","chapter_main_number":"293","date":"20261013","wall_id":"293"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"366","name":"Commentators","old_id":"766"},{"term_id":"778","name":"Temple","old_id":"1178"},{"term_id":"838","name":"Solomon","old_id":"1238"},{"term_id":"873","name":"Warning","old_id":"1273"}]},{"order":5,"id":"61810","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Solomon Builds The Temple With The Help Of The Shamir ","post_title":"Solomon Builds The Temple With The Help Of The Shamir","slug":"solomon-builds-the-temple-with-the-help-of-the-shamir","old_id":"61810","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":33877,"post_title":"Marc Bregman","slug":"marc-bregman","old_id":"33877","first_name":"Marc","last_name":"Bregman","description":"Marc Bregman received his Ph.D. from The Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1991. 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Our chapter records the building of the First Temple in Jerusalem by King Solomon. It notes that \u201cWhen the House was built, only finished stones cut at the quarry were used, so that no hammer or ax or any iron tool was heard in the House while it was being built\u201d (verse 7, compare I Kings 7:9). This represents an extension -- to cover the entire Temple -- of the divine command that the altar specifically was to be built only of previously hewn stones (\u2018even gazit<\/em>), quarried and dressed without the use of any iron tool (Exodus 20:21 and Deuteronomy 27:5-6, see also Joshua 8:30-31).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Mishnah Middot 3:4 records that the stones of both the Ramp (Ha-Kevesh) and the Altar (Ha-Mizbeah) were quarried as whole stones using no iron tool. For iron would have rendered the stone invalid for use in the Temple. The stone was not even plastered using an iron trowel, lest iron should touch the stones. For iron [from which weapons are made] is fashioned to shorten human life, while the Temple was built to lengthen human life. And what shortens life should not be wielded against what lengthens life (see Sifre to Numbers 35:25, section 160).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But, how was it possible to quarry, dress and maintain stone without the use of any iron tools? A complex set of traditions explains that this was accomplished by use of the \u201cShamir\u201d (see Legends of the Jews [2003], pp. 35,40, 973 and 975). Talmud Bavli Sotah 48b indicates that stone could be split by merely showing it to the Shamir. This suggests that the Shamir was an animate being. Medieval Jewish authorities (see, for example, Rashi to Pesahim 54a and Maimonides\u2019 Commentary on Avot 5:6) explain that the Shamir was a stone-cutting worm.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

According to Mishnah Avot 5:6, the Shamir was one of those extraordinary things that were created at the last moment of the six days of creation to be held in reserve for when they would be needed later. Midrash Tehillim 78:11 adds that the Shamir was brought to Solomon from Paradise by an eagle or by a hoopoe. Talmud Bavli Gittin 68a-b preserves an extensive explanation of how King Solomon obtained the elusive Shamir by commanding Ashmedai (Asmodeus), king of the demons. After Solomon made use of the Shamir to cut the stone needed to build the Temple, it seems to have disappeared from our world (Mishnah Sotah 9:12).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Image: Lion-headed Chnoubis, photo by Robert L. 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\u201cIn the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites left the land of Egypt, in the month of Ziv\u2014that is, the second month\u2014in the fourth year of his reign over Israel, Solomon began to build the House of the LORD.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Thus, opens Kings I, chapter 6, describing the building of the Temple. Abarbanel (1437-1508) poses a number of questions on this seemingly simple verse: First, why do we count years here from the Exodus from Egypt and not from creation or from Solomon\u2019s reign itself? Second, why the \u201cfourth year\u201d when King David, his father, already instructed Solomon to build the \u201cHouse\u201d and even gave him the plans and most of the material? Third, I would like to add, is there meaning to the \u201csecond month\u201d mentioned both as \u201csecond\u201d and in its name \u201cthe month of Ziv\u201d??<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Abarbanel thinks that the Exodus hints at the fact that the First Temple\u2019s years are counted from the construction of its predecessor, the Mishkan, which lasted for 480 years. Solomon\u2019s Temple then stood for 410 years. 70 years of the exile passed following the destruction of the First Temple before the Second Temple was built, which totals 480 again. According to our tradition, the Second Temple also stood for 480 years, although that count includes a debate regarding the Second Temple\u2019s \u201cmissing years\u201d (historically, it stood for about 580 years). For Abarbanel and others, the numbers indicate a connection between all the central worship places creating a continuity of Sanctuaries for God, who (based on Exodus 25:9) said that if we build a holy place set aside for Him, He will dwell among us.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

As for King David\u2019s plans and materials, Solomon brought them to the Temple\u2019s treasury (Kings I, 7:51), so they were not lost or spent. Nevertheless, Solomon opted to invest his own labor, supplies and resources, which is what delayed the project.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Last but not least, the month of <\/span>Ziv <\/span><\/em>-<\/span><\/i> splendor, brilliance - being the month of Iyar is known by this name (Ziv<\/em>) because it\u2019s the time for trees to have buds and blossoms (Rashi) and the whole country to have a special luster because of them. But Iyar offers something else. This month includes the only \u201cman-made\u201d Torah holiday, Pesach Sheni. \u201cSecond Pesach\u201d, taking place in the 2<\/span>nd<\/span> month, represents the quest for redemption which comes from \u201cbelow\u201d; inspired, pushed for and created by people, as opposed to Nissan, the first month, when redemption was all from \u201cabove\u201d and all we were asked to do is stay out of the way and follow directions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

We can only hope that it\u2019s no coincidence that the same month when Solomon built the Temple is also the month that saw in modern times, the establishment of the State of Israel the commemoration of Jerusalem Day, the month of brilliance, luster and splendor.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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In 1 Kings 6:23 we read about the Cherubim which were made for Solomon's Temple.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The cherub has found a prized place in English literature and art. One beautiful example can be found in Macbeth (Act 1, Scene 7) in his soliloquy about killing King Duncan:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And pity, like a naked new-born babe,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Striding the blast, or heaven's <\/span>cherubim<\/b>, horsed<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Upon the sightless couriers of the air,<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Some argue that this image of a horsed winged cherub can also be found in Ezekiel 2:14 in his oracle against Tyre.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the Decalogue (Exodus 20:4, Deuteronomy 5:8), God enjoins the people from creating images of divine beings.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

How, then, could the selfsame God instruct the people to build the cherubim, which would be placed in the Tabernacle and later in the Temple?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Judah Halevi explains in the Kuzari (1:97) that the critical difference between forbidden images (like the Golden Calf) and the cherubim is that the latter were expressly commanded by God: \u201c[The sin of the Golden Calf] consisted in the manufacture of an image of a forbidden thing, and in attributing divine power to a creation of their own, something chosen by themselves without the guidance of God.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Jewish Study Bible tells us that \u201ccherub images are attested on various ancient Near Eastern artifacts...In Jewish tradition they came to symbolize the presence of God.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In other words, this is but one example of the Bible using something which is commonplace and elevating it for the service of God.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Indeed, some have argued, such as R. Dr. Joshua Berman, that the design of the Tabernacle as a whole, and by extension the Temple, was adopted and adapted from the surrounding Near Eastern culture. He<\/span> points out<\/span><\/a> that: \u201c ...some 80 years ago, an unexpected affinity was noticed between the biblical descriptions of the Tabernacle and the illustrations of Rameses\u2019 camp at Kadesh in several bas reliefs.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the former we find: \u201cA throne tent...[in which] the emblem bearing the pharaoh\u2019s name and symbolizing his power is flanked by falcons symbolizing the god Horus, with their wings spread in protection over him.\u201d He points out how \u201cthe ark of the Tabernacle is similarly flanked by two winged cherubim, whose wings hover protectively over it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

He interprets this architectural parallel (along with significant literary parallels) as reflecting \u201ca deliberate act of cultural appropriation\u201d, concluding that the parallels are the Bible\u2019s way of telling us that \u201c...the God of Israel overmastered Ramesses the Great by several orders of magnitude, effectively trouncing him at his own game.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The starting date for the project of building the Temple is anchored in a reference to the Exodus:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cIn the 480th year after the Israelites left the land of Egypt, in the month of Ziv \u2014 that is, the second month \u2014 in the fourth year of his reign over Israel, Solomon built the house to God.\u201d (6:1)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The standard protocol in the book of Kings calls for a significant event to be listed in reference to the years of the king's reign. Why is a reference to the Exodus suitable or at all relevant? It is notable that the Exodus is a constant presence throughout these chapters, repeatedly mentioned in the ceremonial dedication of the Temple (see 8:9, 16, 21, 51, 53, and 65). What is the nature of the linkage between the Exodus and the Temple?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Despite the length of time since the Exodus, the Temple is viewed as the culmination and completion of a long journey that commenced with the nation's leaving Egypt. In Israel's jubilant song at the Reed Sea, we read of the Jewish people's destination, the land of Canaan:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

You will bring them and plant them in Your holy mountain, A place for You to dwell (<\/span>makhon leshivtekha<\/span><\/em>), O Lord! The Temple, O Lord, which Your hands established. The Lord will reign forever and ever. (Ex. 15:17-18)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

These lines reveal a national master plan \u2014 the entry to the land will culminate in the establishment of the Temple. Indeed, the phrase<\/span> makhon leshivtekha<\/span><\/em>, \"a place for You to dwell,\" alongside the designation of \"forever,\" is repeated by Solomon four times in his inaugural prayer at the Temple:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I have built You a stately house, a place for You to dwell forever. (I Kings 8:13)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

With the building of the Temple, Israel has indeed reached the \"holy mountain.\" The Temple constitutes a watershed in Jewish history. If the Exodus is the birth of the nation, its formative period, then the building of the Temple reflects a point at which Israel is robust and independent, having reached a mature state of adulthood. It is possible that the number 480 (the number of years since the Exodus) \u2014 forty years multiplied by twelve (the tribes of Israel) \u2014 expresses the perfection of national accomplishment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Alex Israel, 1 Kings: Torn in Two<\/em>, Maggid Books, 2013, The Temple: A New Era\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":61437,"alt":"","title":"alex israel - kings 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\"In the fourth year [of King Solomon's realm] was the foundation of the House of the Lord laid, in the month of Ziv.\u00a0 And in the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, which is the eighth month, was it finished \u2026\" (First Kings 6:37)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

King Solomon has opened wide the gate<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>To gather in the wise with books they wrote;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The righteous come, and prophets who devote<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Their lives to God, the noble and the great.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>But who am I to enter gates?\u00a0 I wait<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Outside the Temple court, and watch a goat<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>That stands beside a many-colored coat<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>While Temple-priests and Levites celebrate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

If only I could be a voice that sings<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>With those who dwell within the House of God,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Or hold the coat to see if it might fit,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Or stroke the Shepherd\u2019s goat that plays with kings;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>If only I \u2014 but look, the Shepherd\u2019s rod<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Has cleared a space inside, for me to 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6:4 \u201cAnd he made inset and latticed windows for the house.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The reader should be warned that the precise meaning of these and other architectural terms is uncertain. Because of the perennial fascination with Solomon\u2019s temple, many elaborate attempts to reconstruct its exact configuration have been made, in analytic descriptions, drawings, and scale models, but all of these are highly conjectural. What is clear is that, like the sanctuary in Exodus, it had a tripartite structure: an outer court (<\/span>`ulam<\/span><\/em>), a great hall (<\/span>heikhal<\/span><\/em>), and an inner sanctuary (<\/span>devir<\/span><\/em>) in which the Ark of the Covenant was placed.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

From: Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible, vol. 2: Prophets, W. W. Norton & Co., 2019, ad loc. 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\u201cDown the Shamir Wormhole\u201d<\/a> by Lisa Feldman: How was the Temple built without tools?<\/p>\r\n

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  1. Bul and Ziv<\/em>. Very \u201cfestive\u201d - actually older, rarer - names for the months mentioned in the dates used in the chapter (verses 1 and 38).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Round numbers<\/em>. The Temple was built 480 years after the Exodus, which is exactly 12 generations. And it took 7 years. Mathematical perfection, in biblical terms.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Transparently opaque<\/em>? The Hebrew that describes the windows in verse 4 is <\/span>shekufim atumim<\/span><\/i>, which our translation renders \u201crecessed and latticed,\u201d which in modern Hebrew is \u201ctransparent [or clear] and opaque.\u201d There are many interpretations what this might be (the JPS translation here being one of them) - but it\u2019s fun to think of a hi-tech Temple with photo-grey glass...<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
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