According to the Bible, when the rules of the people of Judah, king David, gave him the Lord through the prophet Nathan these words: ' your Son, whom I will put in your place on your throne, he shall build a house to My name". Has passed time, and on Jewish throne of king Solomon. In accordance with the prophecy he built the temple in Jerusalem, he was unrivalled in the whole Ancient world.

Colossal construction amazed with its magnificence. Height of 16, length 43, 21-meter wide , the temple consisted of the porch, the Holy place and the Holy of holies. Gilding, dear carving, bronze pillars, the Golden lampstands is this opened the interior of the incoming. And in the Holy of holies under the arch of the two gilded wings of the cherubims stood Holy relic of the Jews - the ark of the Covenant. In it, as legends say, was kept Holy tablets - two stone plaques, on which God wrote the ten commandments with four of the love of God, about six love. The temple was the last place where people had seen the tables of the Covenant.

During the reign of Jehoiakim the temple Solomon has been reconstructed twice. First, in the cellars of Canaan, and put the Egyptian idols, at the gates made a libation in honor of Astarte and Phoenician Adonis, and in the courtyard of the pagan priests every morning glorified the God Baal. Then Jehovah has punished the wicked: in the Jewish land came Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, with thousands of army. Under its power Palo army reinforcements to the rescue of the Egyptians, and then they Jerusalem was taken. And in the tenth day of the fifth month, in the 19th year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, the soldiers of Babylon to the ground and destroyed the main Shrine of the Jews - the temple of Solomon.

The temple is long gone, but the Holy Bible relates us the story of king Solomon and the temple of Jerusalem. However, until recently, the official science was considered the most of the biblical stories fiction. However, archaeological discoveries of recent years has forced even the most hardened skeptics to reconsider its position.

The construction of the temple of Solomon. Engraving By G. Dore. 1860s

In the late 1950s, Israeli archaeologist, Yigal Yadin found the first archaeological evidence that king Solomon really walked the earth. During the excavations of the ancient city Hazor archeologist discovered the city gates, related to X century BC, the expected time of the reign of Solomon. Soon Yadin found in the city of Megiddo gate, repeating on the form found in galore, and then learned that shortly before his discoveries like the gates found in Gezer. This is fully confirmed by the words of the Bible about the strengthening of Solomon cities Gezer, Hazor and Megiddo.

In 1979, the archaeologist Gabriel Barkay out excavations of burial in Jerusalem and found two very fine silver scroll. When scientists from the Israel Museum deployed them, it became clear that on a silver engraved leaves a fragment from the book of "Numbers", the fourth of the famous mosaic of the Pentateuch. The event was dated to 600 BC, what struck skeptics insisting on much later origin of the Bible, and deny the historical truth of the old Testament. The legendary king Solomon's temple was destroyed up to 600 BC And therefore, some scientists have suggested that parts of the old Testament, dedicated to the destruction of the temple, could be written in hot pursuit of real events.

Meanwhile, in scientific circles began to think that perhaps the earth hides the true evidence of the existence of king Solomon. In 1993, Israeli archaeologist, Biran made a sensational discovery: found carved in stone the name of the father of Solomon, king David, who many considered a fictitious character. A piece of dark basalt from ancient burial of tell Dan that in Northern Israel, contained an inscription: "the House of David King of Israel."

Some researchers interested in the heavenly manna, revealed by God to the nation of Israel during his travels in the Arabian desert. She regularly (except Saturday) fell from heaven for 40 years and has prokormil millions of people.

When the Jews reached the promised Land, Moses instructed unto Aaron, take a Golden Cup and fill it manna, to commemorate the miracle. The Cup was made in the ark of the Covenant, where lay the Holy tablets. After a few centuries, the Bible said, the ark was set up in the Holy of holies of the temple of Solomon.

In 1978, two British engineer, George Sassoon and Rodney Dale found in the Zohar, one of the sacred books of Kabbalah, the mention of the days of wandering Jews. The text of the Zohar contains the description of the machine making the manna. According to engineers, it was a device with Autonomous power source. The device is manufactured out of special algae. Sassoon and Dale made a detailed reconstruction of the machine. Moreover, they were the first who claimed that produced manna machine "Zohar" and the legendary Holy Grail, the ark of the Covenant is the same. In their opinion, the temple of Solomon was built as a place of storage wonderful machine.