What temples can be compared to King Solomon's Temple?

Answer 1

A:The description of Solomon's Temple suggests that it was identical to Canaanite temples of the time. It has been suggested that there was probably already a Canaanite temple in Jerusalem when it began to be occupied by the Hebrew people and that they most likely continued to use it, much as it had been in the past. On this view, Solomon did not really build the Temple, although he might have improved it.

Answer 2

Like most Near Eastern temples, the Temple in Jerusalem was a place where sacrifices took place. Certainly animal sacrifices, and given that The Bible (eg 2 Kings 21:6) says the kings of Judah performed human sacrifices, we can perhaps assume they performed these in the Temple as well.

The Bible indicates that the Temple was a place of worship for many gods, not just the God who has come down to us in modern Judaism and in Christianity: Ezekiel 8:14 describes women in the Temple "weeping for Tammuz" - the Semitic god condemned to hell by the goddess Astarte after she was crucified and resurrected. There must have been a whole cult around Astarte and Tammuz, with annual rituals of death and resurrection.

Ezekiel8:16 says, "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." The kings of Judah actually kept horses dedicated to the sun and there were chariots for the sun kept in the Temple until they were removed by King Josiah as inimical to monotheism (2 Kings 23:11).

In these and other ways, the First Temple was not much different from any other Near Eastern Temple before the advent of monotheistic Judaism under King Josiah.

Answer 3

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