June 9, 2025 • 30 mins
Audio reading: Num 5:16-31, 1 Kings 5:1-6:38, Acts 7:1-29, Psalm 127:1-5, Prov 16:28-30
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Solomon was wiser than all of the other kings and rulers of
the nations. He was the wisest of all men,
and he spoke to Hashem his God. And he said to him, And so I
proposed to build a house for the name of Hashem, my God, as
Hashem promised my father David,saying, Your son, whom I will
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set on your throne in your place, shall build the house for
my name. And so Solomon sets about doing
this, and it takes him seven years to build this very
glorious temple. The Word of God came to Solomon
at the end of the seven years and he spoke to Solomon and said
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with regard to this house you are building, if you follow my
laws and observe my rules and faithfully keep my commandments,
I will fulfil for you the promise that I gave to your
father David. I will abide among the children
of Israel and I will never forsake my people Israel.
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Listen in as we unpack the building of the Temple in First
Kings Chapter 7. Welcome to the daily Audio
Torah. Today is June 9th.
Now let's continue our journey reading through the entire Bible
in one year. This week we are reading from
the Israel Bible for the Old Testament and from the King
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James for the New Testament. Numbers 516 to 31.
The Kohen shall bring her forward and have her stand
before Hashem. The kohen shall take sacred
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water in an earthen vessel, and taking some of the earth that is
on the floor of the Mishkan, thekohen shall put it into the
water. After he has made the woman
stand before Hashem, the kohen shall bear the woman's head and
place upon her hands the meal offering of remembrance, which
is a meal offering of jealousy. And in the kohen's hands shall
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be the water of bitterness that induces the spell.
The kohan shall adjure the woman, saying to her, If no man
has lain with you, if you have not gone astray in defilement
while married to your husband, be immune to harm from this
water of bitterness that inducesthe spell.
But if you have gone astray while married to your husband
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and have defiled yourself, if a man other than your husband has
had carnal relations with you, here the kohen shall administer
the curse of adjuration to the woman.
As the kohen goes on to say to the woman, May Hashem make you a
curse and an imprecation among your people.
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As Hashem causes your thigh to sag and your belly to distend,
may this water that induces the spell enter your body, causing
the belly to distend and the thigh to sag, and the woman
shall say Amen. Amen.
The kohen shall put these cursesdown in writing and rub it off
into the water of bitterness. He is to make the woman drink
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the water of bitterness that induces the spell, so that the
spell inducing water may enter into her to bring on bitterness.
Then the kohen shall take from the woman's hand the meal
offering of jealousy, elevate the meal offering before Hashem,
and present it on the Mitzbaya, the altar.
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The kohen shall scoop out of themeal offering a token part of it
and turn it into smoke on the altar.
Last he shall make the woman drink the water.
Once he has made her drink the water, if she has defiled
herself by breaking faith with her husband, the spell inducing
water shall enter into her to bring on bitterness, so that her
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belly shall distend and her thigh shall sag, and the woman
shall become a curse among her people.
But if the woman has not defiledherself and is pure, she shall
be unharmed and able to retain seed.
This is the ritual in cases of jealousy.
When a woman goes astray well married to her husband, and
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defiles herself, or when a fit of jealousy comes over a man and
he is wrought up over his wife. The woman shall be made to stand
before Hashem, and the Kohan shall carry out all this ritual
with her. The man shall be clear of guilt,
but that woman shall suffer for her guilt.
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First Kings, 51 to 638. Solomon's rule extended over all
the kingdoms, from the Euphratesto the land of the Philistines
and the boundary of Egypt. They brought Solomon tribute and
were subject to him all his life.
Solomon's daily provisions consisted of 30 cores of
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semolina and 60 cores of ordinary flour, 10 fattened
oxen, 20 pasture fed oxen and 100 sheep and goats, besides
deers and gazelles, roebucks andfatted geese where he controlled
the whole region West of the Euphrates.
All the kings West of the Euphrates from Tipsa to Gaza and
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they had peace on all his borders.
Round about all the days of Solomon, Yehuda and Israel from
Dan to Beersheba dwelt in safety, everyone under his own
vine and under his own fig tree.Solomon had 40,000 stalls of
horses for his Chariots and 12,000 horsemen.
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All those prefects, each during his month, would furnish
provisions for King Solomon and for all who were admitted to
King Solomon's table. They did not fall short in
anything. They would also each in his
turn, deliver barley and straw for the horses and the swift
deeds to the places where they were stationed.
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Hashem endowed Solomon with wisdom and discernment and great
measure with understanding as vast as the sands on the
seashore. Solomon's wisdom was greater
than the wisdom of all the Ketamites and then all the
wisdom of the Egyptians. He was the wisest of all men,
wiser than Ethan the Erasite andHaman, and Chalcole and Darda,
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the sons of Mayhal. His fame spread among all the
surrounding nations. He composed 3000 proverbs, and
his songs numbered 1005. He discoursed about trees, from
the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop that grows out of the
wall, and he discoursed about beasts, birds, creeping things,
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and fishes. Men of all peoples came to hear
Solomon's wisdom, sent by all the kings of the earth who had
heard of his wisdom. King Hiram of Tyre sent his
officials to Solomon when he heard that he had been anointed
king in place of his father, where Hiram had always been a
friend of David. Solomon sent this message to
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Hiram. You know that my father David
could not build a house, for thename of Hashem is God because of
the enemies that encompassed himuntil Hashem had placed them
under the soles of his feet. But now Hashem my God, has given
me respite all around. There is no adversary and no
mischance, and so I propose to build a house for the name of
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Hashem, my God, as Hashem promised my father David's
saying, Your son, whom I will set on your throne and your
place, shall build the house formy name, please.
Then you have orders for Cedars to be cut for me in the Lebanon.
My servants will work with yours, and I will pay you any
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wages you may ask for your servants.
For as you know, there is none among us who knows how to cut
temper like the Sidonians. When Hiram heard Solomon's
message, he was overjoyed. Praised be Hashem this day, he
said, for granting David a wise son to govern this great people.
So Hiram, since word to Solomon,I have your message.
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I will supply all the cedar and Cypress logs you require.
My servants will bring them downto the sea from the Lebanon, and
at the sea I will make them intofloats and deliver them to any
place that you designate to me. There I shall break them up for
you to carry away. You in turn will supply the food
I require from my household. So Hiram kept Solomon provided
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with all the cedar and Cypress wood he required, and Solomon
delivered to Hiram 20,000 cores of wheat as provisions for his
household, and 20 cores of beaten oil.
Such was Solomon's annual payment to Hiram.
Hashem had given Solomon wisdom as he had promised him.
There was friendship between Hiram and Solomon and the two of
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them made a treaty. King Solomon imposed forced
labor on all Israel. The levy came to 30,000 men.
He sent them to the Lebanon in shifts of 10,000 a month.
They would spend one month in the Lebanon and two months at
home. Adoniram was in charge of the
forced labor. Solomon also had 70,000 porters
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and 80,000 quarriers in the hills, apart from Solomon's 3300
officials who were in charge of the work and supervised the
gangs doing the work. The king ordered huge blocks of
choice stone to be quarried so that the foundations of the
house might be laid with hewn stones.
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Solomon's Masons, Hiram's Masons, and the men of Gibal
shaped them. Thus the timber and the stones
for building the house were madeready in the 480th year after
the Israelites left the land of Egypt in the month of Ziv, that
is, the second month in the fourth year of his reign over
Israel, Solomon began to build the House of Hashem.
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The house which King Solomon built for Hashem was 60 a mote
long, 20A mote wide, and 30 a mote high.
The portico in front of the Great Hall of the house was 20 a
mote long along the width of thehouse and 10A mote deep to the
front of the house. He made windows for the house,
recessed and latticed against the outside wall of the house,
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the outside walls of the house enclosing the Great Hall and the
shrine. He built a storage structure and
he made side chambers all around.
The lowest story was 5 emote wide, the middle 16 emote wide,
and the 3rd 7 emote wide, for hehad provided recesses around the
outside of the house so as not to penetrate the walls of the
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house. When the house was built, only
finished stones cut at the quarry were used so that no
hammer or axe or any iron tool was heard in the house while it
was being built. The entrance to the middle story
of the side chambers was on the right side of the house, and
winding stairs LED up to the middle chambers and from the
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middle chambers to the third story.
When he finished building the house, he panelled the house
with beams and planks of cedar. He built the storage structure
against the entire house, each story 5A mote high, so that it
encased the house with Timbers of cedar.
Then the word of Hashem came to Solomon with regard to this
house you are building. If you follow my laws and
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observe my rules and faithfully keep my commandments, I will
fulfill for you the promise thatI gave to your father David.
I will abide among the children of Israel, and I will never
forsake my people Israel. When Solomon had completed the
construction of the house, he panelled the walls of the house
on the inside with planks of cedar.
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He also overlaid the walls on the inside with wood from the
floor of the house to the ceiling, and he overlaid the
floor of the house with planks of Cypress. 20A mote.
From the rear of the house, he built a partition of cedar
planks from the floor to the walls.
He furnished its interior to serve as a shrine as the Holy of
holies. The front part of the house,
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that is, the Great Hall, measured 40A mote high.
The cedar of the interior of thehouse had carvings of gourds and
calyxes. It was all cedar.
No stone was exposed. In the innermost part of the
house he fixed a shrine in whichto place the ark.
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The interior of the shrine was 20 a mote long, 20A mote wide,
and 20 a mote high. He overlaid it with solid gold.
He similarly overlaid it Cedar altar.
Solomon overlaid the interior ofthe house with solid gold, and
he inserted golden chains into the door of the shrine.
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He overlaid the shrine with goldso that the entire house was
overlaid with gold. He even overlaid with gold the
entire altar of the shrine, and so the entire house was
completed in the shrine. He made two cherubim of olive
wood, each 10 emote high. One had a wing measuring 5 emote
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and another wing measuring 5 emote, so that the spread from
wing tip to wing tip was 10 emote and the wing spread of the
other cherub was also 10 emote. The two cherubim had the same
measurements and proportions. The height of the one cherub was
10 emote and so was that of the other cherub.
He placed the cherubim inside the inside inner chamber.
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Since the wings of the cherubim were extended, a wing of the one
touched one wall and a wing of the other touched the other
wall, while their wings in the center of the chamber touched
each other. He overlaid the cherubim with
gold all over the walls of the House of both the inner area and
the outer area. He carved reliefs of cherubim,
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palms and calyxes, and he overlaid the floor of the house
with gold, both the inner and the outer areas.
For the entrance of the shrine he made doors of olive wood, the
pillisters and the doorposts having five sides.
The double doors were of olive wood, and on them he carved
reliefs of cherubim, palms and calyxes.
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He overlaid them with gold, hammering the gold onto the
cherubim and the palms. For the entrance of the Great
Hall too, he made doorposts of oleaster wood, having four
sides, and the double doors of Cypress wood, each door
consisting of two rounded planks.
On them he carved cherubim, palms and calyxes, overlaying
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them with gold applied evenly over the carvings.
He built the inner enclosure of three courses of hewn stones and
one course of cedar beams. In the fourth year, in the month
of Ziv, the foundations of the house were laid, and in the 11th
year, in the month of Bull, thatis, the 8th month, the house was
completed. According to all its details and
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all its specifications. It took him seven years to build
it. Acts 71 to 29 Then said the high
priest, Are these things so? And he said, Men, brethren, and
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fathers, hearken. The God of glory appeared to our
father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in
Sharan, and said to him, Get youout of their country, and from
your kindred, and come into the land which I shall show you.
Then he came out of the land of the Chaldeans and dwelt in
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Sharan, and from there, when hisfather was dead, he removed him
into this land wherein he you now dwell.
And he gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set
his foot on it. Yet He promised that he would
give it to him for a possession,and to his seed after him, when
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as you had yet no child. And God spoke on this wise, that
his seed should sojourn in a strange land, and that they
should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil for 400
years. And the nation to whom they
shall be in bondage will I judge, said God.
And after that shall they come forth and serve me in this
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place? And he gave him the covenant of
circumcision. And so Abraham begat Isaac, and
circumcised him the 8th day. And Isaac begat Jacob, and Jacob
begat the 12 patriarchs. And the patriarchs moved with
envy said soul Joseph into Egypt.
But God was with him, and delivered him out of all his
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afflictions, and gave him favourand wisdom in the sight of
Pharaoh king of Egypt. And he made him governor over
Egypt, and all his house. Neither came a dearth over all
the land of Egypt, and Canaan, and great affliction.
And our fathers found no sustenance.
But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent out
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our fathers 1st. And at the second time Joseph
was made known to his brethren, and Joseph's kindred was made
known to Pharaoh. Then sent Joseph and called his
father Jacob to him, and all hiskindred 3 score and 15 souls.
So Jacob went down into Egypt and died he and our fathers, and
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were carried over into Psychum, and laid in the sepulcher that
Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emor, the
father of Psychum. But when the time of the promise
drew near which God had sworn toAbraham, the people grew and
multiplied in Egypt, till another king arose which knew
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not Joseph. The same dealt subtly with our
kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out
their young children to the end they might not live.
In which time Moses was born, and was exceedingly fair, and
nourished up in his father's house three months.
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And when he was cast out, Arrow's daughter took him up and
nourished him for her own son. And Moses was learned in all the
wisdom of the Egyptians, and wasmighty in words and in deeds.
And when he was full 40 years old, it came into his heart to
visit his brethren, the childrenof Israel, and seeing one of
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them suffer wrong, he defended him and avenged him that was
oppressed, and smote the Egyptian.
For he supposed his brethren would have understood how the
God by his hand would deliver them, but they understood not.
And the next day he showed himself to them as they strove,
and would have set them at once again, saying, Sirs, you are
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brethren, why do you wrong one another?
But he that did his neighbor wrong thrust him away, saying,
Who made you a ruler and a judgeover us?
Will you kill me, as you did to the Egyptian yesterday?
Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land
of Midian, where he begat two sons.
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Psalm 127. One to five.
Except the Lord build the house.They labor in vain that build
it, except the Lord keep the city.
The watchman wakes, but in vain.It is vain for you to rise up
early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows, For so he
gives his beloved sleep. Lo, children are an inheritance
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of the Lord, and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children
of the youth. Happy is the man that has this
quiver full of them. They shall not be ashamed, but
they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
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Proverbs 1628 to 30. A froward man so strife and a
whisperer separates chief friends.
A violent man entices his neighbor and leads him into the
way that is not good. He shuts his eyes to devise
froward things. Moving his lips, he brings evil
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to pass. I want to speak to you today
from our rating from First Kingschapter 5 and 6, and in chapters
6 and 5 we see Solomon completing the building of the
Temple. In verses 9/10/11 of chapter 5
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it is written Hashem endowed Solomon with wisdom and
discernment in great measure with understanding as vast as
the sands on the seashore. Solomon's wisdom was greater
than the wisdom of all the Kedomites and then all the
wisdom of the Egyptians. He was the wisest of all men,
wiser than Ethan the Ezra height, and Haman, and Chalcole
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and Darda, the sons of Maelol. His fame spread among all the
surrounding nations. So then Solomon sends a message
to Hiram, and he beseeches the Lord.
And he says in verse 18, But nowHashem, my God has given me
respite all around. There's no war, there is no
adversary and no mischance. Verse 19.
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And so I propose to build a house for the name of Hashem, my
God, as Hashem promised my father David, saying, Your son,
whom I will set on your throne in your place, shall build the
house for my name. The Israel Bible commentary to
this verse reads as follows. Because King Solomon reigns over
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a united and strong Kingdom, living at peace, he is able to
embark upon the building of the Beit Hamakdash, the Temple in
Jerusalem. The Talmud relates that the
Mishkan stood in Gilgal for 14 years, in Shiloh for 369 years,
and in Nov and Givonne together for another 57 years, equalling
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a total of 440 years. After this period, work on a
permanent House of God can finally begin.
This monumental project is the high point of the history of the
people of Israel. The purpose of the Exodus from
Egypt was to receive the Torah and to observe it in Erez
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Israel, which includes serving Hashem in the place he chose,
the Bait Hamidash, the Temple inJerusalem.
This temple would serve as a focal point for worship of God
by the children of Israel and the rest of the world.
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Continuing on into chapter 6, I'll start in verse 11.
Then the word of Hashem came to Solomon with regard to this
house you are building. If you follow my laws and
observe my rules and faithfully keep my commandments, I will
fulfil for you the promise that I gave to your father David.
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I will abide among the children of Israel, and I will never
forsake my people Israel. The Israel Bible commentary to
this verse reads as follows. King Solomon concludes the
building of the Batamikdash, theTemple in Jerusalem.
This holiest place on earth is amassive and awe inspiring
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complex that brings the entire world closer to God, though
Hashem will allow it to stand only if the children of Israel
serve Him properly. Rabbi Solomon Avinir points out
that God's commitment in this verse is not conditional.
Hashem's covenant with His people is eternal.
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Though he may hide his face at certain points in history, He
will never leave His people or allow other nations to flourish
in the Promised Land. Despite the many years of exile
and suffering that the Jewish people have experienced,
Hashem's covenant remains, as does the promise of a return to
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Eric's Israel. He has begun to fulfill that
promise in our era before our very eyes.
And this is true. In May of 1948, the nation of
Israel was reborn and immediately they were at war and
under attack from hostile neighbors in the neighborhood,
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from the Arab nations around them.
But even today, with all the hostilities and the conflict,
with attacks coming from Hamas, from Hezbollah, from the
Houthis, from Iran, and from hostile, hostile Hamas and
Hezbollah operatives from withinthe nation within Judea and
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Samaria, still Israel survives and even thrives.
Even with this war on 7 fronts. God is with Israel and Israel
will be an eternal nation forever and ever and ever.
It will never cease to exist as a nation.
Now as to the temple, keep in mind that this temple is a
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shadow picture. What is built in the earthly
realm is a shadow of a actual, real temple in heaven.
And So what we see on the earth is simply a shadow, a copy of
something much, much greater in heaven.
And everything about the temple points us to Yeshua our Messiah,
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that this temple becomes a placewhere God dwells.
And later on, as we continue on reading in First Kings, we're
going to see that the cloud by day and the pillar of fire by
night, that A accompanied the children of Israel when they
left Israel, that that cloud, that Shekinah glory, the
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Shekinah glory of God's presencewill come to be in this very
first temple. And it it is a sign of how God
is himself indwelling inside this temple.
We know that one day there will be another temple that will be
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built because the closing chapters of the book of Ezekiel
chapter 404142 talks about this future eternal temple.
Also, there are several chaptersin the Book of Revelation that
are mirroring the very same message as what's found in
Ezekiel in chapter 404142. This it's this description of
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yet another third temple that isgoing to come.
So, Father, we thank you that now your Spirit can dwell within
us, and that our body is the holy temple that houses the Holy
Spirit. We thank You, Lord, that each
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one of us is like a living stoneand that we are fit together
perfectly, and that as the living stones come together and
congregate together, that you inhabit.
You inhabit the praises of your people.
You are there in our midst. You promise us that when two or
more are gathered in Your name, Jesus, that you are there in the
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midst. So we thank you, Father, for the
living temple, the spiritual temple that you are building.
But we also look forward, Father, to a future literal,
physical temple that will one day be built, where Jesus will
rule and reign from Mount Zion for 1000 years.
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We look forward to that day. The rabbis teach that when you
study the temple, that's part ofthe process of building it.
It begins with studying it. So Father, may you put a joy and
a delight in our heart as we study this temple where you
dwell. We ask it in Jesus name, Amen.
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The Ironic Blessing from Numberschapter 624 to 26.
Adonai bless you and keep you. Adonai make his face to shine
upon you and be gracious to you.Adonai, lift up his countenance
upon you and give you peace.
Solomon was wiser than all of the other kings and rulers of
the nations. He was the wisest of all men,
and he spoke to Hashem his God. And he said to him, And so I
proposed to build a house for the name of Hashem, my God, as
Hashem promised my father David,saying, Your son, whom I will
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set on your throne in your place, shall build the house for
my name. And so Solomon sets about doing
this, and it takes him seven years to build this very
glorious temple. The Word of God came to Solomon
at the end of the seven years and he spoke to Solomon and said
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with regard to this house you are building, if you follow my
laws and observe my rules and faithfully keep my commandments,
I will fulfil for you the promise that I gave to your
father David. I will abide among the children
of Israel and I will never forsake my people Israel.
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Listen in as we unpack the building of the Temple in First
Kings Chapter 7. Welcome to the daily Audio
Torah. Today is June 9th.
Now let's continue our journey reading through the entire Bible
in one year. This week we are reading from
the Israel Bible for the Old Testament and from the King
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James for the New Testament. Numbers 516 to 31.
The Kohen shall bring her forward and have her stand
before Hashem. The kohen shall take sacred
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water in an earthen vessel, and taking some of the earth that is
on the floor of the Mishkan, thekohen shall put it into the
water. After he has made the woman
stand before Hashem, the kohen shall bear the woman's head and
place upon her hands the meal offering of remembrance, which
is a meal offering of jealousy. And in the kohen's hands shall
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be the water of bitterness that induces the spell.
The kohan shall adjure the woman, saying to her, If no man
has lain with you, if you have not gone astray in defilement
while married to your husband, be immune to harm from this
water of bitterness that inducesthe spell.
But if you have gone astray while married to your husband
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and have defiled yourself, if a man other than your husband has
had carnal relations with you, here the kohen shall administer
the curse of adjuration to the woman.
As the kohen goes on to say to the woman, May Hashem make you a
curse and an imprecation among your people.
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As Hashem causes your thigh to sag and your belly to distend,
may this water that induces the spell enter your body, causing
the belly to distend and the thigh to sag, and the woman
shall say Amen. Amen.
The kohen shall put these cursesdown in writing and rub it off
into the water of bitterness. He is to make the woman drink
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the water of bitterness that induces the spell, so that the
spell inducing water may enter into her to bring on bitterness.
Then the kohen shall take from the woman's hand the meal
offering of jealousy, elevate the meal offering before Hashem,
and present it on the Mitzbaya, the altar.
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The kohen shall scoop out of themeal offering a token part of it
and turn it into smoke on the altar.
Last he shall make the woman drink the water.
Once he has made her drink the water, if she has defiled
herself by breaking faith with her husband, the spell inducing
water shall enter into her to bring on bitterness, so that her
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belly shall distend and her thigh shall sag, and the woman
shall become a curse among her people.
But if the woman has not defiledherself and is pure, she shall
be unharmed and able to retain seed.
This is the ritual in cases of jealousy.
When a woman goes astray well married to her husband, and
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defiles herself, or when a fit of jealousy comes over a man and
he is wrought up over his wife. The woman shall be made to stand
before Hashem, and the Kohan shall carry out all this ritual
with her. The man shall be clear of guilt,
but that woman shall suffer for her guilt.
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First Kings, 51 to 638. Solomon's rule extended over all
the kingdoms, from the Euphratesto the land of the Philistines
and the boundary of Egypt. They brought Solomon tribute and
were subject to him all his life.
Solomon's daily provisions consisted of 30 cores of
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semolina and 60 cores of ordinary flour, 10 fattened
oxen, 20 pasture fed oxen and 100 sheep and goats, besides
deers and gazelles, roebucks andfatted geese where he controlled
the whole region West of the Euphrates.
All the kings West of the Euphrates from Tipsa to Gaza and
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they had peace on all his borders.
Round about all the days of Solomon, Yehuda and Israel from
Dan to Beersheba dwelt in safety, everyone under his own
vine and under his own fig tree.Solomon had 40,000 stalls of
horses for his Chariots and 12,000 horsemen.
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All those prefects, each during his month, would furnish
provisions for King Solomon and for all who were admitted to
King Solomon's table. They did not fall short in
anything. They would also each in his
turn, deliver barley and straw for the horses and the swift
deeds to the places where they were stationed.
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Hashem endowed Solomon with wisdom and discernment and great
measure with understanding as vast as the sands on the
seashore. Solomon's wisdom was greater
than the wisdom of all the Ketamites and then all the
wisdom of the Egyptians. He was the wisest of all men,
wiser than Ethan the Erasite andHaman, and Chalcole and Darda,
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the sons of Mayhal. His fame spread among all the
surrounding nations. He composed 3000 proverbs, and
his songs numbered 1005. He discoursed about trees, from
the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop that grows out of the
wall, and he discoursed about beasts, birds, creeping things,
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and fishes. Men of all peoples came to hear
Solomon's wisdom, sent by all the kings of the earth who had
heard of his wisdom. King Hiram of Tyre sent his
officials to Solomon when he heard that he had been anointed
king in place of his father, where Hiram had always been a
friend of David. Solomon sent this message to
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Hiram. You know that my father David
could not build a house, for thename of Hashem is God because of
the enemies that encompassed himuntil Hashem had placed them
under the soles of his feet. But now Hashem my God, has given
me respite all around. There is no adversary and no
mischance, and so I propose to build a house for the name of
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Hashem, my God, as Hashem promised my father David's
saying, Your son, whom I will set on your throne and your
place, shall build the house formy name, please.
Then you have orders for Cedars to be cut for me in the Lebanon.
My servants will work with yours, and I will pay you any
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wages you may ask for your servants.
For as you know, there is none among us who knows how to cut
temper like the Sidonians. When Hiram heard Solomon's
message, he was overjoyed. Praised be Hashem this day, he
said, for granting David a wise son to govern this great people.
So Hiram, since word to Solomon,I have your message.
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I will supply all the cedar and Cypress logs you require.
My servants will bring them downto the sea from the Lebanon, and
at the sea I will make them intofloats and deliver them to any
place that you designate to me. There I shall break them up for
you to carry away. You in turn will supply the food
I require from my household. So Hiram kept Solomon provided
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with all the cedar and Cypress wood he required, and Solomon
delivered to Hiram 20,000 cores of wheat as provisions for his
household, and 20 cores of beaten oil.
Such was Solomon's annual payment to Hiram.
Hashem had given Solomon wisdom as he had promised him.
There was friendship between Hiram and Solomon and the two of
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them made a treaty. King Solomon imposed forced
labor on all Israel. The levy came to 30,000 men.
He sent them to the Lebanon in shifts of 10,000 a month.
They would spend one month in the Lebanon and two months at
home. Adoniram was in charge of the
forced labor. Solomon also had 70,000 porters
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and 80,000 quarriers in the hills, apart from Solomon's 3300
officials who were in charge of the work and supervised the
gangs doing the work. The king ordered huge blocks of
choice stone to be quarried so that the foundations of the
house might be laid with hewn stones.
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Solomon's Masons, Hiram's Masons, and the men of Gibal
shaped them. Thus the timber and the stones
for building the house were madeready in the 480th year after
the Israelites left the land of Egypt in the month of Ziv, that
is, the second month in the fourth year of his reign over
Israel, Solomon began to build the House of Hashem.
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The house which King Solomon built for Hashem was 60 a mote
long, 20A mote wide, and 30 a mote high.
The portico in front of the Great Hall of the house was 20 a
mote long along the width of thehouse and 10A mote deep to the
front of the house. He made windows for the house,
recessed and latticed against the outside wall of the house,
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the outside walls of the house enclosing the Great Hall and the
shrine. He built a storage structure and
he made side chambers all around.
The lowest story was 5 emote wide, the middle 16 emote wide,
and the 3rd 7 emote wide, for hehad provided recesses around the
outside of the house so as not to penetrate the walls of the
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house. When the house was built, only
finished stones cut at the quarry were used so that no
hammer or axe or any iron tool was heard in the house while it
was being built. The entrance to the middle story
of the side chambers was on the right side of the house, and
winding stairs LED up to the middle chambers and from the
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middle chambers to the third story.
When he finished building the house, he panelled the house
with beams and planks of cedar. He built the storage structure
against the entire house, each story 5A mote high, so that it
encased the house with Timbers of cedar.
Then the word of Hashem came to Solomon with regard to this
house you are building. If you follow my laws and
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observe my rules and faithfully keep my commandments, I will
fulfill for you the promise thatI gave to your father David.
I will abide among the children of Israel, and I will never
forsake my people Israel. When Solomon had completed the
construction of the house, he panelled the walls of the house
on the inside with planks of cedar.
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He also overlaid the walls on the inside with wood from the
floor of the house to the ceiling, and he overlaid the
floor of the house with planks of Cypress. 20A mote.
From the rear of the house, he built a partition of cedar
planks from the floor to the walls.
He furnished its interior to serve as a shrine as the Holy of
holies. The front part of the house,
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that is, the Great Hall, measured 40A mote high.
The cedar of the interior of thehouse had carvings of gourds and
calyxes. It was all cedar.
No stone was exposed. In the innermost part of the
house he fixed a shrine in whichto place the ark.
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The interior of the shrine was 20 a mote long, 20A mote wide,
and 20 a mote high. He overlaid it with solid gold.
He similarly overlaid it Cedar altar.
Solomon overlaid the interior ofthe house with solid gold, and
he inserted golden chains into the door of the shrine.
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He overlaid the shrine with goldso that the entire house was
overlaid with gold. He even overlaid with gold the
entire altar of the shrine, and so the entire house was
completed in the shrine. He made two cherubim of olive
wood, each 10 emote high. One had a wing measuring 5 emote
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and another wing measuring 5 emote, so that the spread from
wing tip to wing tip was 10 emote and the wing spread of the
other cherub was also 10 emote. The two cherubim had the same
measurements and proportions. The height of the one cherub was
10 emote and so was that of the other cherub.
He placed the cherubim inside the inside inner chamber.
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Since the wings of the cherubim were extended, a wing of the one
touched one wall and a wing of the other touched the other
wall, while their wings in the center of the chamber touched
each other. He overlaid the cherubim with
gold all over the walls of the House of both the inner area and
the outer area. He carved reliefs of cherubim,
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palms and calyxes, and he overlaid the floor of the house
with gold, both the inner and the outer areas.
For the entrance of the shrine he made doors of olive wood, the
pillisters and the doorposts having five sides.
The double doors were of olive wood, and on them he carved
reliefs of cherubim, palms and calyxes.
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He overlaid them with gold, hammering the gold onto the
cherubim and the palms. For the entrance of the Great
Hall too, he made doorposts of oleaster wood, having four
sides, and the double doors of Cypress wood, each door
consisting of two rounded planks.
On them he carved cherubim, palms and calyxes, overlaying
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them with gold applied evenly over the carvings.
He built the inner enclosure of three courses of hewn stones and
one course of cedar beams. In the fourth year, in the month
of Ziv, the foundations of the house were laid, and in the 11th
year, in the month of Bull, thatis, the 8th month, the house was
completed. According to all its details and
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all its specifications. It took him seven years to build
it. Acts 71 to 29 Then said the high
priest, Are these things so? And he said, Men, brethren, and
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fathers, hearken. The God of glory appeared to our
father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in
Sharan, and said to him, Get youout of their country, and from
your kindred, and come into the land which I shall show you.
Then he came out of the land of the Chaldeans and dwelt in
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Sharan, and from there, when hisfather was dead, he removed him
into this land wherein he you now dwell.
And he gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set
his foot on it. Yet He promised that he would
give it to him for a possession,and to his seed after him, when
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as you had yet no child. And God spoke on this wise, that
his seed should sojourn in a strange land, and that they
should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil for 400
years. And the nation to whom they
shall be in bondage will I judge, said God.
And after that shall they come forth and serve me in this
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place? And he gave him the covenant of
circumcision. And so Abraham begat Isaac, and
circumcised him the 8th day. And Isaac begat Jacob, and Jacob
begat the 12 patriarchs. And the patriarchs moved with
envy said soul Joseph into Egypt.
But God was with him, and delivered him out of all his
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afflictions, and gave him favourand wisdom in the sight of
Pharaoh king of Egypt. And he made him governor over
Egypt, and all his house. Neither came a dearth over all
the land of Egypt, and Canaan, and great affliction.
And our fathers found no sustenance.
But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent out
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our fathers 1st. And at the second time Joseph
was made known to his brethren, and Joseph's kindred was made
known to Pharaoh. Then sent Joseph and called his
father Jacob to him, and all hiskindred 3 score and 15 souls.
So Jacob went down into Egypt and died he and our fathers, and
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were carried over into Psychum, and laid in the sepulcher that
Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emor, the
father of Psychum. But when the time of the promise
drew near which God had sworn toAbraham, the people grew and
multiplied in Egypt, till another king arose which knew
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not Joseph. The same dealt subtly with our
kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out
their young children to the end they might not live.
In which time Moses was born, and was exceedingly fair, and
nourished up in his father's house three months.
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And when he was cast out, Arrow's daughter took him up and
nourished him for her own son. And Moses was learned in all the
wisdom of the Egyptians, and wasmighty in words and in deeds.
And when he was full 40 years old, it came into his heart to
visit his brethren, the childrenof Israel, and seeing one of
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them suffer wrong, he defended him and avenged him that was
oppressed, and smote the Egyptian.
For he supposed his brethren would have understood how the
God by his hand would deliver them, but they understood not.
And the next day he showed himself to them as they strove,
and would have set them at once again, saying, Sirs, you are
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brethren, why do you wrong one another?
But he that did his neighbor wrong thrust him away, saying,
Who made you a ruler and a judgeover us?
Will you kill me, as you did to the Egyptian yesterday?
Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land
of Midian, where he begat two sons.
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Psalm 127. One to five.
Except the Lord build the house.They labor in vain that build
it, except the Lord keep the city.
The watchman wakes, but in vain.It is vain for you to rise up
early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows, For so he
gives his beloved sleep. Lo, children are an inheritance
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of the Lord, and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children
of the youth. Happy is the man that has this
quiver full of them. They shall not be ashamed, but
they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
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Proverbs 1628 to 30. A froward man so strife and a
whisperer separates chief friends.
A violent man entices his neighbor and leads him into the
way that is not good. He shuts his eyes to devise
froward things. Moving his lips, he brings evil
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to pass. I want to speak to you today
from our rating from First Kingschapter 5 and 6, and in chapters
6 and 5 we see Solomon completing the building of the
Temple. In verses 9/10/11 of chapter 5
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it is written Hashem endowed Solomon with wisdom and
discernment in great measure with understanding as vast as
the sands on the seashore. Solomon's wisdom was greater
than the wisdom of all the Kedomites and then all the
wisdom of the Egyptians. He was the wisest of all men,
wiser than Ethan the Ezra height, and Haman, and Chalcole
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and Darda, the sons of Maelol. His fame spread among all the
surrounding nations. So then Solomon sends a message
to Hiram, and he beseeches the Lord.
And he says in verse 18, But nowHashem, my God has given me
respite all around. There's no war, there is no
adversary and no mischance. Verse 19.
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And so I propose to build a house for the name of Hashem, my
God, as Hashem promised my father David, saying, Your son,
whom I will set on your throne in your place, shall build the
house for my name. The Israel Bible commentary to
this verse reads as follows. Because King Solomon reigns over
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a united and strong Kingdom, living at peace, he is able to
embark upon the building of the Beit Hamakdash, the Temple in
Jerusalem. The Talmud relates that the
Mishkan stood in Gilgal for 14 years, in Shiloh for 369 years,
and in Nov and Givonne together for another 57 years, equalling
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a total of 440 years. After this period, work on a
permanent House of God can finally begin.
This monumental project is the high point of the history of the
people of Israel. The purpose of the Exodus from
Egypt was to receive the Torah and to observe it in Erez
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Israel, which includes serving Hashem in the place he chose,
the Bait Hamidash, the Temple inJerusalem.
This temple would serve as a focal point for worship of God
by the children of Israel and the rest of the world.
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Continuing on into chapter 6, I'll start in verse 11.
Then the word of Hashem came to Solomon with regard to this
house you are building. If you follow my laws and
observe my rules and faithfully keep my commandments, I will
fulfil for you the promise that I gave to your father David.
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I will abide among the children of Israel, and I will never
forsake my people Israel. The Israel Bible commentary to
this verse reads as follows. King Solomon concludes the
building of the Batamikdash, theTemple in Jerusalem.
This holiest place on earth is amassive and awe inspiring
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complex that brings the entire world closer to God, though
Hashem will allow it to stand only if the children of Israel
serve Him properly. Rabbi Solomon Avinir points out
that God's commitment in this verse is not conditional.
Hashem's covenant with His people is eternal.
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Though he may hide his face at certain points in history, He
will never leave His people or allow other nations to flourish
in the Promised Land. Despite the many years of exile
and suffering that the Jewish people have experienced,
Hashem's covenant remains, as does the promise of a return to
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Eric's Israel. He has begun to fulfill that
promise in our era before our very eyes.
And this is true. In May of 1948, the nation of
Israel was reborn and immediately they were at war and
under attack from hostile neighbors in the neighborhood,
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from the Arab nations around them.
But even today, with all the hostilities and the conflict,
with attacks coming from Hamas, from Hezbollah, from the
Houthis, from Iran, and from hostile, hostile Hamas and
Hezbollah operatives from withinthe nation within Judea and
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Samaria, still Israel survives and even thrives.
Even with this war on 7 fronts. God is with Israel and Israel
will be an eternal nation forever and ever and ever.
It will never cease to exist as a nation.
Now as to the temple, keep in mind that this temple is a
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shadow picture. What is built in the earthly
realm is a shadow of a actual, real temple in heaven.
And So what we see on the earth is simply a shadow, a copy of
something much, much greater in heaven.
And everything about the temple points us to Yeshua our Messiah,
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that this temple becomes a placewhere God dwells.
And later on, as we continue on reading in First Kings, we're
going to see that the cloud by day and the pillar of fire by
night, that A accompanied the children of Israel when they
left Israel, that that cloud, that Shekinah glory, the
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Shekinah glory of God's presencewill come to be in this very
first temple. And it it is a sign of how God
is himself indwelling inside this temple.
We know that one day there will be another temple that will be
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built because the closing chapters of the book of Ezekiel
chapter 404142 talks about this future eternal temple.
Also, there are several chaptersin the Book of Revelation that
are mirroring the very same message as what's found in
Ezekiel in chapter 404142. This it's this description of
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yet another third temple that isgoing to come.
So, Father, we thank you that now your Spirit can dwell within
us, and that our body is the holy temple that houses the Holy
Spirit. We thank You, Lord, that each
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one of us is like a living stoneand that we are fit together
perfectly, and that as the living stones come together and
congregate together, that you inhabit.
You inhabit the praises of your people.
You are there in our midst. You promise us that when two or
more are gathered in Your name, Jesus, that you are there in the
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midst. So we thank you, Father, for the
living temple, the spiritual temple that you are building.
But we also look forward, Father, to a future literal,
physical temple that will one day be built, where Jesus will
rule and reign from Mount Zion for 1000 years.
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We look forward to that day. The rabbis teach that when you
study the temple, that's part ofthe process of building it.
It begins with studying it. So Father, may you put a joy and
a delight in our heart as we study this temple where you
dwell. We ask it in Jesus name, Amen.
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The Ironic Blessing from Numberschapter 624 to 26.
Adonai bless you and keep you. Adonai make his face to shine
upon you and be gracious to you.Adonai, lift up his countenance
upon you and give you peace.
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