The text appointed for today describes the dedication of the Temple, the magnificent house that Solomon built for the name of the Lord. The Temple itself is something to behold, built of cedar and cypress overlaid with pure gold. It takes seven years altogether to complete the Temple, to finish all of the details; doors of olivewood with carved palms, open flowers, cherubim, an inner core of hewn stone and cedar beams. In the inner sanctum, the holy of holies where the ark would be placed, Solomon builds two cherubim of 10 cubits, approximately 180 inches, and those cherubim were overlaid with pure gold. When the Temple is finished, Solomon assembles the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes and all the leaders of the ancestral houses of Israel. All is ready. The temple is fill…