SOLOMON’S TEMPLE WAS SURROUNDED BY CITY STREETS! (See Lamentations 4:1)

Jeremiah's eyewitness lament was, 'the stones of the sanctuary are scattered at the top of every street.' The Hebrew word CHUTS or KHOOTS, translated street, means that which is immediately outside the bounds of a house. He is speaking of residential streets, so the temple must have stood in Zion (in the City of David) surrounded by streets with houses—not out of town to the north on so-called Temple Mount.
Read ‘THE PLACE HaMakom: where Jerusalem’s temples stood’ available now at http://wipfandstock.com/the-place.html

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