To jewish people. Which one of your former cities or countries you're valuing most. Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, Poland,Russia, Hungary?

1. According to 1 Kings 6:38, the construction time of the Temple was seven years. It was a glorious structure.

Back in 1925, the Illinois Society of Architects set out to make estimates of the cost of rebuilding the Temple. The cost of the building alone, without the vessels and other furnishings was estimated at $87 billion dollars. Considering how costs have skyrocketed since 1925, it would no doubt cost over $500 billion dollars.

http://kentrivette.com/rev-ch11(1-2).htm 2. A London magazine, Illustrated London News, August 28, 1909, after consultation with Dr. Gaster, Mr. Schor and others, has drawn up a rough estimate of the cost of the original construction. Solomon set 30,000 men to cut timber; 80,000 men to quarry stone; 70,000 wood and stone carriers; and over all, 3,300 foremen.

The timber cutters worked in shifts; and 10,000 worked in Lebanon for a month (I Kings 5:14), and then went home for two months. The 150,000 other workmen, as Canaanites, were slaves. Assuming, their cost of maintenance roughly equaled ordinary wages, and that they also worked in eight hour shifts, the wages bill (at 8 pence an hour) for the seven years of the Temple's construction would be as follows: the timber cutters, 5,824,000 pounds; the stone hewers, 46,592,000 pounds; the stone-carriers, 40,768,000 pounds; and the foremen (at 2 pounds a week), 2,401,000 pounds: making a grand total of 95,585,000 pounds.

Further enormous sums must be added for purchase of the site (II Samuel 24:24; I Chronicles 21:25), the cost of building materials (I Chronicles 22:14), internal decoration (II Chronicles 3:6), the sacred vessels (Ezra 8:27; Dr. Russell Forbes, of Rome, has traced the Elders' Lampstand from Rome (Josephus, Wars, 7, 5, 7), to Carthage (Procopius, B.v. 1, 5; Evagrius, 4, 17), Constantinople (Procopius, B.v. 2, 6; Evagrius, 4, 17), to Jerusalem (ibid.) and Persia (Annals of Eutychianus), where in AD614, it was lost to sight.

It's said that jewel-gifts for the Temple are now deposited on exhibition in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence). And -- assuming that all the Temple was overlaid (I Kings 7:22) in proportion to the 600 talents reserved for the Oracle (II Chronicles 3:8), thus requiring 2,700 talents in addition -- not less than 14,782,500 pounds must be added for the overlaying with gold. Against all this must be reckoned the colossal sums which David amassed (I Chronicles 22:14): 100,000 talents of gold, or (assuming the talent to equal 5,475 pounds) 547,500,000 pounds; 1,000,000 talents of silver or 342,000 000 pounds; and out of the privy purse, 18,819,000 pounds (I Chronicles 29:4).

(Owing to the uncertainty of the exact value of the talent, these figures must be received with caution, but the most conservative estimates run into hundreds of millions sterling).

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