The Building of God's House
With the cedars of Lebanon, with enormous stones quarried from the mountains about Jerusalem, and with marble and metal and precious jewels gathered from all the known world, King Solomon began his wondrous temple. No sound of axe or hammer was heard as the work progressed. Such was the feeling of reverence, of the sanctity of this house of God, that all the rougher, ruder work of the building was carried on at a distance from Jerusalem. Stones and beams were brought thither already measured and prepared; and the walls of the temple rose, according to tradition, amid no sounds but those of music and the singing of hymns of joy.
While the work progressed, there came to Solomon another vision, another light from God, approving of the work and promising that He would indeed make this temple a Holy Place, and would Himself abide there with the children of Israel, so long as they followed Him and obeyed His commandments.
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