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What is the Jewish holy temple?

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7y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

It was the huge edifice for God built by King Solomon as commanded in Deuteronomy 12. See 1 Kings ch.6-8. After its destruction by the Babylonians, it was rebuilt by Ezra and later destroyed by Rome.

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