But he told the Jerusalem Post that archaeological ... Kings and the First Book of Chronicles, David’s son, Solomon, built the First Temple (later known as the Beit Hamikdash) on that site.

But the two (or three, counting Herod’s renovation) iterations of the Jerusalem Temple are joined in the historical record by three other ancient Israelite temples. Solomon’s temple was built ...

during what is commonly thought to be the time of King David and King Solomon. “Jerusalem is a living city; it’s not like a tel site that’s built as a sequence of layers,” said Dr ...