What did they worship in King Solomon's Temple?

Answer 1

AnswerIn addition to worship of God, The Bible tells us that the kings of Judah kept in the Temple horses and a chariot for the sun god (the sun god was thought to ride through the sky in a chariot) until they were removed from the Temple by King Josiah as inimical to monotheism. The Book of Ezekiel, verse 8:16 confirms this, "And he brought me into the inner court of the Lord's house, and behold, at the door of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the Lord, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east." Second Kings 23:5 tells us that priests at Jerusalem burnt incense to the sun and the moon and to the planets and to all the host of heaven. The goddess Asherah, consort of God, was also worshipped in Solomon's Temple.

The serpent idol, Nehushtan, was also in the Temple, although the Bible retrospectively tells us that it was given to the people as a charm to cure snake bites.