"Temple of Solomon" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... made familiar with this image in the decorations of the temple of Solomon, including colossal cherubim. Also the great molten sea of brass was supported upon oxen of the ...
— Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XII, Jan. 3, 1891 • Various
... valley of the Kedron rose the Mosque of Omar, on the site of the Temple of Solomon; farther to the left lay the fatal Valley of Hinnom, once defiled by the fires of Moloch; but on neither of these sides lay the object of the ...
— The Rival Heirs being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune • A. D. Crake
... fell before Nebuchadnezzar, before that power which, like Turkey of yesterday, dominated the whole stretch of country from the Persian Gulf to the border of Egypt. Twenty years later, Jerusalem, with the Temple of Solomon, was destroyed, the city, palaces and temple being levelled in one, and the population were put to death or led ...
— With the British Army in The Holy Land • Henry Osmond Lock
... the Historians of France by Dom Bouquet, tom. ii. Greg. Turonens. l. iii. c. 10, p. 191. Gesta Regum Francorum, c. 23, p. 557. The anonymous writer, with an ignorance worthy of his times, supposes that these instruments of Christian worship had belonged to the temple of Solomon. If he has any meaning it must be, that they were found in ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 3 • Edward Gibbon |
