Solomon's Temple, also called the First Temple, was the temple in Jerusalem that the Hebrew Bible says was built by King Solomon as a home for the Ark of the Covenant. According to the biblical account, it was constructed with the help of craftsmen and cedar wood from Hiram, king of Tyre, on the hill now known as the Temple Mount. It stood as the centre of worship in the kingdom of Judah until the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II destroyed Jerusalem and the temple. No archaeological remains have been identified with certainty, because excavation on the Temple Mount is restricted, and scholars disagree over the precise date and details of the building. The Second Temple was built after the Jews returned from exile.
Before and after
- from c. 1,046 BCE to 256 BCEZhou dynasty
- from 11th century BCE to 7th century BCEChaldea
- 11th century BCEThe Bantu expansion begins
- 1st millennium BCEOrigins of Kabul
- from c. 996 BCE to 586 BCEConstruction of Solomon's Temple
- from c. 945 BCE to 715 BCETwenty-second Dynasty of Egypt
- from c. 930 BCE to 720 BCEKingdom of Israel
- from c. 930 BCE to 586 BCEKingdom of Judah
- from c. 911 BCE to 609 BCENeo-Assyrian Empire
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