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Bible Study Where Was The Jewish Temple Located?

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The traditional thinking is that the first and second Jewish Temples where located on what today is called the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. One problem for me is that Jesus clearly said the Temple would be completely destroyed, not one stone left upon another:
Mark 13:1-2
1And as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto him, Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings are here! 2And Jesus answering said unto him, Seest thou these great buildings? there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
Yet, when we visit the Temple Mount we find foundation walls well preserved from the time of destruction.

Additionally, in the Book of Kings we find:
1 Kings 1:38-39
38 So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites went down and had Solomon ride on King David's mule and brought him to Gihon. 39 There Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the tent and anointed Solomon. Then they blew the trumpet, and all the people said, “Long live King Solomon!”
This clearly locates the tent of the Tabernacle next to the Spring of Gihon, which is in the City of David, not where the Temple Mount is today in the city of Jerusalem. There was actually nothing of Jerusalem, including the Temple Mount, outside the walls of City of David in the time of Solomon.

I believe a good case is made that the first and second Temples where located on the site where the Tabernacle had been erected in the City of David, not on the Temple Mount.
 
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The traditional thinking is that the first and second Jewish Temples where located on what today is called the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. One problem for me is that Jesus clearly said the Temple would be completely destroyed, not one stone left upon another:
Mark 13:1-2
1And as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto him, Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings are here! 2And Jesus answering said unto him, Seest thou these great buildings? there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
Yet, when we visit the Temple Mount we find foundation walls well preserved from the time of destruction.

Additionally, in the Book of Kings we find:
1 Kings 1:38-39
38 So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites went down and had Solomon ride on King David's mule and brought him to Gihon. 39 There Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the tent and anointed Solomon. Then they blew the trumpet, and all the people said, “Long live King Solomon!”
This clearly locates the tent of the Tabernacle next to the Spring of Gihon, which is in the City of David, not where the Temple Mount is today in the city of Jerusalem. There was actually nothing of Jerusalem, including the Temple Mount, outside the walls of City of David in the time of Solomon.

I believe a good case is made that the first and second Temples where located on the site where the Tabernacle had been erected in the City of David, not on the Temple Mount.
Herods temple isn't not the same location as the zerrubabel or the Solomon temples.
 
Herods temple isn't not the same location as the zerrubabel or the Solomon temples.


All of the constructions of the Temple from Solomon to Herod had to be either in exactly the same place, or very nearby each other, as the entire Temple Mount is only about 36 acres. Even if the Temples were actually outside what is the Temple Mount in the City of David, they would still have been very close by. The whole area isn't that big.
 
The traditional thinking is that the first and second Jewish Temples where located on what today is called the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. One problem for me is that Jesus clearly said the Temple would be completely destroyed, not one stone left upon another:
Mark 13:1-2
1And as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto him, Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings are here! 2And Jesus answering said unto him, Seest thou these great buildings? there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
Yet, when we visit the Temple Mount we find foundation walls well preserved from the time of destruction.

Additionally, in the Book of Kings we find:
1 Kings 1:38-39
38 So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites went down and had Solomon ride on King David's mule and brought him to Gihon. 39 There Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the tent and anointed Solomon. Then they blew the trumpet, and all the people said, “Long live King Solomon!”
This clearly locates the tent of the Tabernacle next to the Spring of Gihon, which is in the City of David, not where the Temple Mount is today in the city of Jerusalem. There was actually nothing of Jerusalem, including the Temple Mount, outside the walls of City of David in the time of Solomon.

I believe a good case is made that the first and second Temples where located on the site where the Tabernacle had been erected in the City of David, not on the Temple Mount.

hello Mike S, dirtfarmer here

I agree. From all that I have read the Temple was south of where the Dome of the Rock which allows for the flow of water into the temple so that it could be cleansed daily.
 
One problem for me is that Jesus clearly said the Temple would be completely destroyed, not one stone left upon another: ............Yet, when we visit the Temple Mount we find foundation walls well preserved from the time of destruction.
None of the temple itself is left.
The "wailing wall" was not part of the temple.
 
None of the temple itself is left.
The "wailing wall" was not part of the temple.
It was part of the foundation wall for the Temple complex according to the Temple Institute, and a foundation wall for Fort Antonia according to some Bible researchers.
 
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