What Remains

There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt. And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the Lord (1 Kings 8:910).

The building of the Temple was Solomons first major task as Israels king. Nothing compared with the splendor and beauty of the Temple. Towards the completion of the Temple,...