King Solomon completes Israel’s First Temple, in Jerusalem.
Solomon’s legendary temple will last approximately 364 years, to be destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BCE.
The Temple is the de facto successor to the (portable) Tabernacle (Mishkan), which the Israelites used during the bulk of their 40–year exodus from Egypt. The Temple will be succeeded approximately 50 years later by the Second Temple, built in the early 500s BCE primarily under Persian–Jewish satrap Zerubavel.
The Second Temple will later undergo an extraordinary and historic renovation (if not total rebuilding) under King Herod the Great approximately 500 years later in the latter half of the first century BCE, only to be destroyed, in turn, by the Romans in 70 CE.
Clearly, with the erection of the First Temple under freedom, peace, prosperity and historically grand boundaries—as well as under a wise and benevolent ruler—Judaism reached an extraordinary apex.
However, the independent and spiritually uplifted state of King Solomon would set the bar high for succeeding generations, who would clash incorrigibly—and fatally—with the Roman rule of the first and second centuries.