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The importance of Shishak’s campaign (campaigns?) that appears both in the Bible (1 Kings 14 25-26; 2 Chronicles 12 2-12 see also 1 Kings 11 40) and in the famous relief in the temple of Amun at Karnak that contains the names of about 180 places that he captured
...is the earliest event in the Bible to be referred to in an extra Biblical source...
However the phrase:-”and he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord — and he took away the shields of gold which Solomon had made, and King Rehoboam made in their stead bronze shields”...could almost certainly only have derived from the archives of the temple and if that is so it shows that in the fifth year of Rehoboam’s reign there was a temple in Jerusalem with an archive.
This not only confirms that Solomon built the temple but shows that this temple was significant enough to have an archive and that there was a royal regime in Jerusalem important enough and strong enough to build such a temple.
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HISTORICAL EVIDENCE THAT
THE JEWISH TEMPLE WAS IN JERUSALEM
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“At this point Crassus arrived to take over the governorship of Syria. For the campaign against the Parthians he removed all the gold from the Sanctuary in Jerusalem…”
SOURCE: The Jewish War (chapter 1, page 51) by Flavius Josephus, translated by G.A. Williamson, published by Penguin Classics in year 1984, ISBN: 0140444203 & 978-0140444209
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“Gaius Caesar’s accession to power so completely turned his head that he wished to be thought of and addressed as a god, stripped his country of its noblest men, and proceeded to lay sacrilegious hands on Judea. He ordered Petronius to march with an army to Jerusalem and erect his statues in the Temple: if the Jews refused them, he was to execute the objectors and enslave all the rest of the population.”
SOURCE: The Jewish War (chapter 7, pages 139 to 140) by Flavius Josephus, translated by G.A. Williamson, published by Penguin Classics in year 1984, ISBN: 0140444203 & 978-0140444209
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“…Cumanus, whose governorship was marked by and further disaster to the Jews. The people had assembled in Jerusalem for the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and the Roman cohort stood on guard over the Temple colonnade, armed men always being on duty at the feasts to forestall any rioting by the vast crowds.”
SOURCE: The Jewish War (chapter 7, pages 143 to 144) by Flavius Josephus, translated by G.A. Williamson, published by Penguin Classics in year 1984, ISBN: 0140444203 & 978-0140444209
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“… the Jerusalem magistrates, rushing out clad in sackcloth and with ashes poured on their heads, besought them to return and not to provoke the Romans to attack Jerusalem by reprisals on the Samaritans: they must spare their country and their Sanctuary, and their own wives and children…”
SOURCE: The Jewish War (chapter 7, page 145) by Flavius Josephus, translated by G.A. Williamson, published by Penguin Classics in year 1984, ISBN: 0140444203 & 978-0140444209
Cohen, that's the Second Temple.
I was referring to the First.
Stay on the ball.
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