The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-12-17
Holy Land, Canaan or Palestine
In 81 LETTERS. LETTER NO. 10.
written for Brandon News, by virgn.)
S0L0MON'S TEMPLE DESTRUCTION AND
REBUILDING.

AS King David sat in his house Of
ceaar. 3. I. 1912, enjoying the peace
ana plenty with which the Lord had
surrounded him, his heart went out in
love to God and his people, and thinking
that ne lived in a house of cedar and the
Lords Ark dwelling ina tabernacle, he
was moved to undertake the building the
Lord house.
Ana 1t came to pass, when the king
SAT IN his honse, and the Lord had given
hlm rest round about from all his enemies
that the king said unto Nathan. the
prophet, see, now, / dwell in an house of
cedar but the Ark of God dwelleth with
IN curtains. And Nathan said to the
king, go, do all that is in thine heart. for
the Lord IS with thee. I'll Sam. 7.23)
GOD Spake to Nathan that NIGHT and
told hun to encourage King David in
regard to the building the house. but that
ne beng q man of war and blood y
could not build the house. but that he
would set up his seed after him.n and
solomon should build the house. ssHe
snail build house for nv name. and
VIII establish Sthe throne of his KINGDOM
forever. II will be his father. and he
snail be my SON If he commit iniouity.
VIII chasten him with the rod of men. and
WIN the STRIPES OF the children of men but
my mercy shall not depart away from him.
as took it from Saul, whow put him
away before thee" Gil Sam 7:I3.I5)
30 solomon made arrangement with
Hiram king of Tyre" to furnish him
With cedarS from Lebanon and other
material and help, and in the wear B. c..
1905 the building began.
Hiram cut cedarS ard fir trees on Leban-
on and sent them in floats by, sea to JAP.
pa. $50 Hiram gave Solomon cedar tree
and fir tree according to all his desire.
and Solomon gave Hiram twenty thous.
and measures of wheat for food to his
houSehold, and twenty measures of pure
OIL: mus gave Solomon to Hiram year by
year q Kings 5:Io-II) Solomon
mage levy OF thirty thousand men and
ana ne caused ten thousand to work in
LEBANON IN turns, one month in Lebanon
and TWO months at home He had also
seventy thousand men who bore burdens.
and eighty thousand men, hewers, in the
mountains, besides thirty-nine thousand
overSeerS, in all one hundred and eighty
three thousand and three hundred men.
And the the king commanded, and
llloY oou9ilt great stones, costly stones,
and heWed stones to lay the foundation
Iof the house. And Soomon's builders
ana Hlram'S builders did heW them. and
the stone squarers: SO they prepared
timber and stones to build the house
klng David had collected thousands of
gold, silver, brass and iron before his
death for the building. When all the
material had been made ready and placed
upon the ground IN Jerusalem, the house
went up so nicely fitted that there was
not heard the sound of an iron tool on
the building. The house being completed
was then dedicated to God with great
rejoicing and thanksgiving, sacrificing
sheep, and oxen, that could not be told
nor be numbered for multitude;" and
Yhen they had put the ARK of the
Covenant in the "Holy of Holes y
containing the two tables of stone.
which Moses put there at Horeb, ''the
cloud filled the house Of the Lord.
Solomon offered dedcating prayer O.