The crowning achievement of King Solomon's reign was the erection of the magnificent Temple (Hebrew- Beit haMikdash) in the capital city of ancient Israel - Jerusalem.His father, King David, had wanted to build the great Temple a generation earlier, as a permanent resting place for the Ark of the Covenant which contained the Ten Commandments. Green. Building of the first temple in Jerusalem by King Solomon with King Hiram of Tyre.

Close. King Solomon’s temple is one of the most infamous temples in human’s history.

King Solomon built the First Temple in Jerusalem as a monument to God and as a permanent home for the Ark of the Covenant.Also known as Solomon’s Temple and Beit HaMikdash, the First Temple was destroyed by the Babylonians in 587 BCE.

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King Solomon built the first Temple in the 10th century BCE, on a site whose sanctity went back eons before that. Green . The temple was home of the Arc of the Covenant and the Ten Commandments on King Solomon Legend