Many Christians now believe that Solomon’s Temple was located in the City of David, rather than in the traditional location on the Temple Mount. I have posted previously on Martin and Conuke’s findings supporting the old city of David site for Solomons’ temple.

Ernest Martin sparked the alternate temple site movement when he published The Temples that Jerusalem Forgot in 2000. Bob Cornuke published Temple in 2014 to promote the same idea, although with a much smaller temple and temple mount. Both authors claim to be following the Bible, historical sources, and archaeology to uncover truths that have been forgotten for centuries. However, when we compare their claims to the Bible, history, and archaeology, we find that Martin and Cornuke have been highly selective in their use of each of these sources. While a more detailed article is forthcoming from AIG that addresses many of the major arguments for this position, this brief article will highlight a few examples of where these alternate temple site proponents misuse Scripture, history, and archaeology. We will also see the impossibility of placing the temple in the city of David as Martin and Cornuke advocate.

Moreover, I believe that AIG debunked all of the myths that attempted to prove their claims, and I suggest you go to the AIG website to see the evidence.

“Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to David his father, at the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.” 2 Chronicles 3:1

According to this verse, Solomon built the temple on Mount Moriah. Since this is so clearly stated in the text, one would expect Martin and Cornuke to discuss this fact, but they do not. Martin does not mention the verse in his nearly 500-page book. He even includes a chapter titled “Where Did Solomon Build the Temple?” in which he does not cite a single verse of Scripture. Instead, he wrote nine pages to debate the meaning of a passage from Josephus that is not even about the temple’s location.