CG, King Solomon's Temple Tour

King Solomon's Temple Tour

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http://www.mediafire.com/?tgmjmw1zgng

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFnWTz-7I0E

Where's Solomon's harem?  You left out the best part of the tour!

Hahaha, good question.

Please make that CG, and show us.

Well, probably, if it is the makers of the "GTA" (Grand Theft Auto), they will be able to make that, IMO.

From our own RunningMan's The Athiest's Book of Bible Stories....

Solomon’s temple was a lot smaller than most people picture it. 1 Kings 6:2 tells us that it was 60 cubits long, 20 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high. In a rare example of biblical precision, 2 Chronicles 3:3 gives exactly the same measurements. A cubit is 17.5 inches, so the temple would have been 87.5’ x 29’, and about 4 stories high. It would total 2,552 square feet in area. To put this in perspective, it would be less than twice the size of my house, but four stories high. This number is very important, so keep it in mind.

Read on ....

Thank you, Black Sheep.

That is an interesting information.

What do you suppose is on the grill?

(quoted from Black Sheep's link above)

SOLOMON, AND THE ISRAELITE ABATTOIR

King Solomon was a very devout man.He also liked to do things in big ways.Take, for example, the sacrifice that he offered up during a festival:

“Then the King and all the people offered sacrificebefore the LORD.King Solomon offered as a sacrifice twenty-two thousand oxen and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep.” - 2 Chronicles 7:4,5

Now, let’s pause for a moment and let these numbers sink in.According to verse 9, this festival lasted seven days.That means that one animal was killed every 4.3 seconds, day and night, for a week.

Let’s look at it another way.According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, an adult sheep would weigh between 80 and 400 pounds.Let’s take an average size of 200 pounds.Oxen come it at around 900 pounds.This means that Solomon slaughtered 43.8 million pounds of animals.

This would be a pretty big pile of animal.If the animal carcasses were stacked, with no wasted space, it would make a pile of 3.9 million cubic feet, or, a pile 5 feet high, covering 18 acres.

And what did he do with this meat?Well according to verse 7, he tried to put it on the alter, along with a cereal grain offering.

“For there he offered the burnt offering and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze alter Solomon had made could not hold the burnt offering and the cereal offering and the fat.” - 2 Chronicles 7:7

Talk about an understatement. I could picture Solomon, looking at that mountain of meat, and saying to his attendant, “Gee, do you think that’s too much to put on the alter?”

The sheer volume of meat involved is enough to convince anyone that this passage is grossly exaggerated.I will not even attempt to calculate the economic impact of this slaughter on a relatively poor group of desert farmers.

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