WORLD RELIGIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -At first, King David wanted to build a temple for God, but according to the Bible, God said to him through the prophet Nathan, “You are not to build a house for my name, because you are a warrior and have shed blood.” However, he chose Solomon to build the temple .

Detailed explanation-2: -The First Temple was constructed during the reign of David’s son, Solomon, and completed in 957 bce.

Detailed explanation-3: -Location. According to the Bible, Solomon’s Temple was built on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem, where an angel of God had appeared to David (2 Chronicles 3:1). The site was originally a threshing floor David had purchased from Araunah the Jebusite (2 Samuel 24:18–25; 2 Chronicles 3:1).

Detailed explanation-4: -In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites had come out of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, the second month, he began to build the temple of the LORD. The temple that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty wide and thirty high.