1 and 2 Kings by Iain Provan

1 and 2 Kings by Iain Provan

Author:Iain Provan [Provan, Iain]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: REL006060 Religion / Biblical Commentary / Old Testament
ISBN: 9780310527619
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2015-12-09T16:00:00+00:00


In this model, the Temple mount and the city of David are in the foreground with the expanded city behind.

Amar and Greyevsky, Bible Lands Museum, Jerusalem

The king, standing by the pillar (11:14). This probably refers to one of the two pillars (Jachin and Boaz) that were found at the temple entrance (1 Kings 7:15–22, 41–42), flanking the temple forecourt, just as the monumental gateways of major ancient Near Eastern cities marked the entrance to their own sacred enclosures. As the stone-carved reliefs on some of these gateways illustrate, the completion of a temple in the ancient world was marked by a procession that deposited the statue of the god of the temple in his new home (note the analogous procession of the ark in 1 Kings 8). Once the god was installed, the prominent gateposts signaled the ongoing presence of the god both to city residents and to outsiders. Jachin may mean “the establisher” and as such would provide a fitting location for a covenant-renewal ceremony in which the king renewed his relationship both with his God and his people.91

The Walls and Gates of Jerusalem I

The original City of David was situated below the Temple Mount on the southern spur of the lower, eastern hill above the Kidron Valley to its east and the Tyropoean Valley to its west. The Gihon Spring, the only defensible spring in the area, lay below at the foot of the eastern slope. In a relatively brief period of time the city expanded north across the Ophel to incorporate the Temple Mount area itself, where Solomon built his palace and the temple.



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