Field Guide
Solomon's Temple Field Guide
Walk the first temple from the courtyard altar to the golden cube of the Holy of Holies — sacred space, covenant pattern, and the house where God's glory came to dwell.
Solomon’s Temple — the Beit HaMikdash — was the house Israel built so that the God who had dwelt in a tent might dwell in a permanent sanctuary at the heart of Jerusalem. This field guide walks the temple from the courtyard altar and the great bronze sea, up the steps and between the pillars Jachin and Boaz, through the gold-carved Holy Place, to the cube of the Holy of Holies where two giant cherubim overshadowed the ark.
Every measurement and furnishing here is drawn from 1 Kings 6–8 and 2 Chronicles 3–4 and checked against the text. Where the record is silent, the guide marks reconstruction as reconstruction — and where the temple deepens, rather than replaces, the Tabernacle’s pattern, it says so.
Overview
Sacred geography — the mountain, the spring, and the tent the Temple replaced, and the four ways of knowing that keep it in focus.
Interactive
Explore the Floor Plan
Walk Solomon's Temple from the courtyard altar to the golden cube of the Holy of Holies.
The Furnishings
An interactive walk-through of Solomon's Temple — the court, the sanctuary, and the oracle. Tap each furnishing in order to open what the text says, what the reconstruction infers, what it meant, and how Latter-day Saints read it.
Dedication & Theology
When the house was finished, the glory filled it. Solomon's prayer, the cloud, and the question at the heart of the Temple — can the God of heaven dwell on the earth?
City of David
The ridge, the spring, and the spade — the one place where the world of Kings meets archaeology, and where the line between solid and contested matters most.
The Bronze Worker from Tyre
Hiram of Tyre, the Phoenician master who cast the pillars, the molten sea, and the lavers — and the deep weave of Israel and Phoenicia, throne to dye-vat, that raised the house of the LORD.
Temple Mount Through Time
From Abraham's mountain and Solomon's house to Babylon's fire, Herod's vast platform, Rome's destruction, and the Dome of the Rock that stands there now — walked as a dig-down timeline, with the honest line between what we see and what lies buried.
Sources & Citations
The references behind the guide — the scripture, archaeology, scholarship, and art used to build the Solomon's Temple field guide, with full image credits.