Where is King Solomon's throne today?

The archaeological ensemble called Takht-e Soleyman (“Throne of Solomon”) is situated on a remote plain surrounded by mountains in northwestern Iran's West Azerbaijan province.
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Has Solomon's palace been found?

A palatial building dating to the era of King Solomon 3000 years ago has been discovered in the royal city of Gezer, though there is no evidence which of the Israelite kings lived there, if any.
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Where is king David's throne today?

David's throne was transplanted from Judah to Ireland to Scotland to England and the British royal family, who no longer possess it. God wants to bury what is happening with the throne in Britain today. The new throne of David will be at Jerusalem.
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Does the Temple of Solomon still exist?

No remains from Solomon's Temple have ever been found. The presumption is that it was destroyed completely and buried during the huge project of building the Second Temple, in Herod's time.
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Where is the Ark of the Covenant now?

Whether it was destroyed, captured, or hidden–nobody knows. One of the most famous claims about the Ark's whereabouts is that before the Babylonians sacked Jerusalem, it had found its way to Ethiopia, where it still resides in the town of Aksum, in the St. Mary of Zion cathedral.
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Where is the Lost Ark of the Covenant?

One of the most well known holds that Levitical priests moved the Ark to Egypt just before the Babylonians sacked Jerusalem in 586 B.C. From there it was supposedly moved to Ethiopia, where it resides to this day in the town of Aksum, in the St. Mary of Zion cathedral.
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Is Queen Elizabeth a descendant of King David?

It is believed that the royal family's roots can be traced back to the royal family of Israel and that Her Majesty is actually a descendant of King David, the Psalmist.
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Who is the heir to David's throne?

Adonijah, in the Old Testament, the fourth son of David, the natural heir to the throne. David's favourite wife, Bathsheba, organized an intrigue in favour of her son Solomon.
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What happened to King Solomon's gold?

When King Solomon's Temple was captured and destroyed by the Babylonians in 597 and 586 B.C., the coveted artefact disappeared forever. Some of the treasures were hidden in Israel and Babylonia, while others were delivered into the hands of the angels Shamshiel, Michael and Gabriel.
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Is the temple of Jerusalem still standing?

The Temple was destroyed in 586 BC by Nebuchadnezzar, the King of Babylon, when he conquered Jerusalem. There are scant remains of the temple on the south hill of the City of David. Evidence of the conquering and destruction of the city can be found in the Burnt House and the House of the Bullae.
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Who destroyed Solomon's Temple?

King Solomon, according to the Bible, built the First Temple of the Jews on this mountaintop circa 1000 B.C., only to have it torn down 400 years later by troops commanded by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar, who sent many Jews into exile.
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What happened to the temple built by Solomon?

As has been well-known for millennia, in either 587 or 586 B.C.E., the forces of Nebuchadnezzar II, king of Babylonia, served a deadly blow to the small and rebellious Kingdom of Judah. They wiped it off the map, deported large swathes of its population, and destroyed its holy temple, the Temple of Solomon.
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Are there artifacts from Solomon's Temple?

JERUSALEM — Archaeologists have unearthed a trove of artifacts dating back to the time of the biblical King David that they say closely correspond to the description of Solomon's Temple found in the Book of Kings.
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Is there a bloodline from Jesus?

There is no evidence that these beliefs derived from the much earlier Gnostic traditions of Jesus and Mary Magdalene, but the Cathar traditions did find their way into many of the 20th-century popular writings claiming the existence of a Jesus bloodline.
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How is Jesus the descendant of David?

Matthew begins by calling Jesus the son of David, indicating his royal origin, and also son of Abraham, indicating that he was an Israelite; both are stock phrases, in which son means descendant, calling to mind the promises God made to David and to Abraham.
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How is Queen Elizabeth related to Jesus?

Luke's biblical account of the travel of the Virgin Mary to Jordan to visit Elizabeth, her "cousin." Elizabeth was actually Mary's aunt, sister of Anna, Mary's mother. Joida, High Priest of Aaron, was father of Elizabeth and Anna, and thus grandfather of Jesus and of John the Baptist.
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Who are the descendants of the 12 tribes of Israel today?

Peoples who at various times were said to be descendants of the lost tribes include the Assyrian Christians, the Mormons, the Afghans, the Beta Israel of Ethiopia, the American Indians, and the Japanese.
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What tribe is Jesus from?

Tribe of Judah - Wikipedia.
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Has the Ark been found?

In 2020, the Institute for Creation Research acknowledged that, despite many expeditions, Noah's Ark had not been found and is unlikely to be found. Many of the supposed findings and methods used in the search are regarded as pseudoscience and pseudoarchaeology by geologists and archaeologists.
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When was the last time the Ark of the Covenant was seen?

The Ark vanished when the Babylonians conquered Jerusalem in 587 B.C.
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Where are the original Ten Commandments?

The text of the Ten Commandments appears twice in the Hebrew Bible: at Exodus 20:2–17 and Deuteronomy 5:6–21.
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Where are the tablets of the Ten Commandments now?

The Ten Commandments fragment was found in the famous Cave 4 not far from the Qumran ruins in the Judean Desert of the West Bank, where the scrolls had rested, undisturbed and preserved for two millennia, in darkness and dry desert air.
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