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发掘更多有关所罗门王石碑事情What was the Temple of Solomon? 1)According to the Bible, it was the Israelites?first 2)permanent ouse?of God, built specifically to house the 3)Ark of the Covenant. The Ark ?a gold covered wooden chest containing the 4)Ten Commandments ?had originally been carried by the chosen people and Moses through the desert. When they arrived at the promised land of 5)Canaan, they kept the Ark at the heart of the 6)tabernacle, a tent-like building regarded as God ‘s 7)dwelling place on Earth. After King Saul unified the Israelites, they settled in Jerusalem under his successor David. It was David’s son Solomon who built the temple, now known as the Temple of Solomon. It would become the Israelites?only legal place of 8)worship. In Jewish history, this time is known as the First Temple period, and begins at around 1,000B.C. What evidence is there that the Temple of Solomon existed? The only evidence is the Bible. There are no other records about it, and to date there has been no archaeological evidence of the Temple at all. What’s more, other sites 9)associated with King Solomon ?palaces, 10)fortresses and walled cities that seemed to match places from the Bible ?are also now in doubt. Some of the scholars now believe there may be little or no archaeological evidence of King Solomon’s time at all, and doubt that he ruled the empire which is described in the Bible. Why did the appearance of the stone tablet cause such attention? Inscriptions from the First Temple Period are extremely rare. In fact, only one other 11)royal inscription from this period has been found in Israel. The souse of David?Victory 12)Stele, now in the Israel Museum, contains the only 13)reference to Solomon’s father David which exists outside the Bible. The stone tablet appeared to be of even greater importance, offering the only known archaeological evidence for Solomon’s most famous building. It also seemed to prove some 14)verses in the Bible which 15)menti