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      • When David captured Jerusalem, he moved the Ark of the Covenant there. As the site for a temple, he selected Mount Moriah, or the Temple Mount, where it was believed that Abraham had built his altar to sacrifice Isaac. The First Temple was constructed under David’s son Solomon and was completed in 957 bc.
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  2. The First Temple was constructed during the reign of David’s son, Solomon, and completed in 957 bce. Other sanctuaries retained their religious functions, however, until Josiah (reigned c. 640–609 bce) abolished them and established the Temple of Jerusalem as the only place of sacrifice in the Kingdom of Judah.

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    1000 BCE - King David Conquers Jerusalem; Declares City Capital of Jewish Kingdom
    960 BCE - David's Son, King Solomon, Builds First Jewish Temple
    721 BCE - Assyrians Conquer Samaria; Refugees Flee to Jerusalem and City Expands onto Western Hill
    701 BCE - Assyrian Ruler SennacheribLays Seige to Jerusalem
    539 BCE - Persian Ruler Cyrus the GreatConquers Babylonian Empire, Including Jerusalem
    516 BCE - Cyrus Permits Jews in Babylonian Exile to Return to Jerusalem; Second TempleBuilt
    445-425 BCE - Nehemiahthe Prophet Rebuilds the Walls of Jerusalem; City Confined to Eastern Hill
    332 BCE - Greek Leader Alexander the Great Conquers Judeaand Jerusalem
    332-141 BCE - Ptolemaic and SeleucidRule in Jerusalem
    141 BCE - HasmoneanDynasty Begins; Jerusalem Again Expands Limits to Western Hill
    63 BCE - Roman General Pompey captures Jerusalem
    37 BCE - King Herod Restructures Second Temple, Adds Retaining Walls
    30 CE - JesusCrucified by Romans in Jerusalem
    70 CE - Roman Forces Destroy Jerusalem and Demolish Second Temple
    135 CE - Jerusalem Rebuilt as a Roman City
    335 CE - Church of the Holy SepulchreBuilt
    614 CE - Persians Capture Jerusalem
    629 CE - ByzantineChristians Recapture Jerusalem from Persians
    638 CE - Caliph OmarEnters Jerusalem
    661-750 CE - Jerusalem Ruled Under UmayyadDynasty
    691 CE - Dome of the RockBuilt on Site of Destroyed Jewish Temples
    750-974 CE - Jerusalem Ruled Under AbassidDynasty
    1187 CE - SaladinCaptures Jerusalem from Crusaders
    1229-1244 CE - Crusaders Briefly Recapture Jerusalem Two Times
    1517 - Ottoman EmpireCaptures Jerusalem
    1538-1541 - Suleiman the MagnificentRebuilds the Walls of Jerusalem
  3. Islamic tradition says that a temple was first built on the Temple Mount by Solomon, the son of David. After the destruction of the second temple, it was rebuilt by the second Rashidun Caliph , Omar , which stands until today as Al-Aqsa Mosque .

  4. Jan 6, 2016 · According to Jewish tradition, the original Jerusalem Temple was ordained by Yahweh/God, as described in 2 Samuel 7:12 where Yahweh commands Nathan to tell David: When your days are...

  5. The First Temple, built by David’s son Solomon in the year 2928 from Creation (833 BCE), stood for 410 years and was destroyed by the Babylonians in 3338 (423 BCE). After a 70-year interlude, the Second Temple was built, standing for 420 years until the Romans set fire to it in 3829 (69 CE).

  6. The first Temple, built by King Solomon in approximately 1000 BCE, was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BCE. When the Persians conquered the Babylonians almost a century later, they agreed to let the Jewish leaders who had been taken into exile return to the land of Israel where they would rebuild the Temple.

  7. 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.

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