SOLOMON'S TEMPLE WOULD COST 4 BILLION TO BUILD TODAY
London, U.K. (JFK+50) On July 18, 1921, a lecture was given at Cambridge University by the Right Rev. T.E. Bird in which he said that Solomon's Temple* would cost $4,000,000,000 if built today.
The New York Tribune states...
"England may count herself lucky the Palestine mandate** was not awarded her in Biblical times."
*Solomon's Temple, a.k.a. First Temple, was built in Jerusalem by order of King Solomon & completed in 957 BC. The Temple was looted & then destroyed by King Nebuchadnezzar 586/587 BC.
**Palestine Mandate was a League of Nations mandate for the British administration of the territory of Palestine & Transjordan after WWI.
SOURCE
"Solomon's Temple Cost Fixed at Four Billions," The New York Tribune, July 19, 1921, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
