Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1908-12-12
Solomon Dedicates
the Temple
Sunday School Lesson for Dec. l3, 1908
Specially Arranged for This Paper

GOLDEN TENT was glad when
they said unto me, let us go into the
house Of the Lord. Psalm 122l
THE TEMpLE.-The temple was be-
gun In the fourth year OF Solomons
r,gn b. G.. 1912, and completed seven
years later. B. G. l0oi. according TO the
Assvriuu Canon about i5 years later. The
dedication was in Solomon's twelfth
year
CONTEMPORARY HISTORY. The
kingdom was now at IT'S largest extent,
from tho Lebanon mountains to the Red
sea- from the Mediterranean TO the Syri- |
9n desert ON the east Tyre flourishing |
lud,r King Hiram. The Sabaean king |
dog ~ Yemen, the queen OF winch came |
lu sci, solomon. Commerce extended TO |
Europe. Africa and India.
Comment and Suggestive Thought.
The Temple.-The situation was on !
the eastern hill of Jerusalem, called |
sometimes Mount Moriah. overlooking
the valley Of the Kidron and the
Mount of Olives.
Modern authorities are inclined to
think that the temple platform was
a part of Mount Zion; and that Zion
was the name Of the eastern hill OF
Jerusalem. and not OF the western
hll as has been the general opinion.
The rugged top Of Moriah was lev
cled with immense labor; its sides,
which to the east and south were pre-
cipitous. were faced with a wall of
stone. built up perpendicular from the
bottom of the valley, so as to appear
to those who looked down of most
terrifying height "a work of pro.
digious skill and labor, as the i'm
mense stones were strongly mortised
together and wedged into the rock. -
Milman.
The platform, according to Jose
phus, was square, three-quarters of a
mile in circuit WARS SIS, p, in the
time of Herod, but he also says that
Herod doubled the original inclosure.
Probably, therefore, the platform
constructed by Solomon's engineers
was an area of about II acres, or a
quadrangle OF 800 by GOO feet. -
James Sine.
Alone and isolated in its grandeur
stood the Temple Mount. Terrace
upon terrace its courts rose, till high
above the city, within the inclosure
of marble cloisters, the temple itself
stood out, a mass OF snowy marble and
| OF gold. glittering in the sunlight
against the half encircling green back
ground of Olivet. Nor has there
been in ancient or modern times a
sacred building equal to the temple,
whether for situation or magniiicence.
-Edersheim.
The Size and Plan of the Temple
The best model Of the temple have
ever SEEN declares DIR. f. n. Peloubet,
lis the one sent from England to Mr.
Dwight L. Moody, and placed in his
school at Northheld, Mass. 1t ID
said to have cost $4,000. A similar
one belonged to Mr.. Thomas New
berry, Alexander Villa, Weston-SuDer
Mare, England
Counting a cubit as Is inches, the
main building was as follows: Porch
30 feet broad 10 feet deep, $50 feet
high: holy place, 60 feet long, so feet
vide, 80 feet high holy Of holies, 3C
feet long, 80 feet wide, 80 feet high;
chambers, 10 feet wide on the two
sides and rear.
In front of the sPrch were tive
great pillars.
The whole was situated according
TO the points of the compass, The
front entrance being toward the east
The Courts-TheI- were two courts
% Chron. $3.50. The outer court wa
surrounded by a wall partly of stone
partly of cedar; on the eastern Dor
, der was clolster or colonnade. Thi
! court was adorned with trees an,
tree to all the people. Within thi
QUADRANGLE was a smaller court, tn
} court of the priests, on the highes
ridge of the hill, inciosing the temple
and the great brazea altar and braze
sea, and the LAYERS.
In the inner court were the Srea
brazen altar of sacrifice, 10 feet his
and 80 feet square, in sight OF all Il
worshipers of the outer court, and IN
molten or b.azen sea supported by l
huge oxen, each 71a feet high.
V.lO. The cloud dlled the house c
: the Lord" The article before clou
denotes that it was the well-know
| cloud MnlCn DtlbhNuth INC ulNA-l
presence. The cloud was the We
that hid (V. ID the glory of tn
Lord" for that glory was too bright
: be seen by mortal eyes. This was th
same as the pillar Of cloud and of fir
that guided the people through th
wilderness, which had rested on the tai
ernacle on the day it was dedicate
(Ex. 4O:34), "and had apparently bes
specially displayed at certain jun'
lures in the history OF Israel CNun
1875. 10; 16:42; Deut. Sl:l5). 1t wa
thus the acknowledged symbol of God
presence, and as such was a vis.bl
sign that he now accepted the templ
as he had formerly accepted the tai
ernacle, as his shrine and dwellin
place"
The Dedication Services.
/. Sentences (Vs. II, 10; 2 Chrol
6:1, p.
2. King blesses congregation CV. Ia
2 Chron. 6:9). all standing.