The Second Temple

This is the Second Holy Temple in Jerusalem also known as Herod's Temple (built 516 BCE, destroyed 70 CE).
It took me more than 5 hours straight without eating lunch to assemble this temple, 11 Am till 4:30 PM. I don't feel hungry at all, my mind focus on what I'm doing. I just can't stop it because I'm too Excited to see the fruit of my labor. This replica model is made with 267 laser cut wooden pieces and step-by-step instruction booklet. All you have to do is to concentrate because just one mistake everything will be a mess. This piece worth about $85 to $120 , enough to satisfy yourself seeing your own work and the fun building the model yourself. Now, I'm proud and honored, the piece was beautifully displayed in the living room.



This Temple has an amazing history, the first temple in Jerusalem was built by King Solomon. In hebrew is Beit HaMikdash meaning The Temple House or The Sanctuary House) was the reconstructed Temple in Jerusalem which stood between 516 BCE and 70 CE. During this time, it was the center of Jewish worship, which focused on the sacrifices known as the korbanot. Solomon's Temple, also known as the First Temple, was destroyed in 586 BCE when the Jews were exiled into Babylonian Captivity. The first temple was burned, pillaged and destroyed by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon (2Kings 24:13; 2Chronicles 36:7), who carried all the temple's treasures with him to Babylon.

The second temple was built in the same location as the first temple. The foundations of the second temple were laid about 535 B.C. by Jewish exiles returning from captivity in Babylon. When Herod the Great became king of Judea the second temple had stood for about five hundred years. The building had suffered considerably from natural decay over the years as well as from the assaults of hostile armies, and Herod, desirous of gaining the favor of the Jews, proposed to rebuild it. This offer was accepted, and the work was begun (18 B.C.), and carried out at great labor and expense, and on a scale of surpassing splendor. The main part of the building was completed in ten years, but the erection of the outer courts and the embellishment of the whole were carried on during the entire period of Jesus' life on earth (John 2:16, John 2:19-21).
The temple was completed in A.D. 65. The temple, however, was not long permitted to exist. The Roman legions took the city of Jerusalem by storm, and notwithstanding the strenuous efforts Titus made to preserve the temple, his soldiers set fire to it in several places and it was utterly destroyed in 70 A.D.