Today's reading is I Kings 5-7 and II Chronicles 2:1-4. Solomon acknowledges that the Temple cannot hold God and is for the purpose of offering sacrifices to him. The enormity of the undertaking is hard to understand. I am watching a Super WalMart and other stores being built near my house. Cranes and earthmovers the size of my house worked for weeks before any construction began. In constrast, this Temple was built without this labor-saving machinery. In fact, 30,000 laborers from Israel were conscripted. They worked in 3-month cycles (one month in Lebanon and two months at home) working on this structure. In addition 153,600 "aliens" were put to work on the stones. The Temple was 90 feet long, 30 feet wide and 45 feet high. That would be at least as tall as a 4-story building. The precious metals used to overlay most construction must have weighed tons. But the really incredible part comes next.
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