April 4 833 BCE – 1 Iyar 2928
According to the biblical book of Kings, King Solomon began construction of the First Temple in Jerusalem. Though his father, King David, was the one who acquired the site from Arnon the Jebusite, according to tradition Solomon stored away all the precious materials his father had set aside for the building, preferring to use newly purchased items so that his work would be untainted by the suspicion that God’s House was built from the spoils of war. Solomon’s Temple stood for roughly four hundred years, until destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon in the sixth or fifth century BCE.