There is a Mystery in the bible that I have been trying to solve, and today, I finally SOLVED IT.
I found the most SIGNIFICANT find, that absolutely without a doubt, that PROVES the TEMPLE belongs in the CITY OF DAVID.
2 Samuel 5:7 (ESV)
7 Nevertheless, David took the stronghold of Zion, that is, the city of David.
Lamentations 2:6 (HCSB)
6 He has done violence to His temple as if ⌊it were⌋ a garden ⌊booth⌋, destroying His place of meeting. The LORD has abolished appointed festivals and Sabbaths in Zion. He has despised king and priest in His fierce anger.
2 Chronicles 3:1 (YLT)
1 And Solomon beginneth to build the house of Jehovah, in Jerusalem,
in the mount of Moriah, where He appeared to David his father, in the place that David had prepared,
in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite,
Mount Moriah today, know as the TEMPLE MOUNT, would be about 750 - 800 feet north of the City of David, where Mount Zion once stood. So HOW DO WE RECTIFY THAT SUPPOSED ERROR ? ? ? The Jews INSIST it is on Mount Moriah, yet modern day archaeologists insist it was on Mount Zion.
QUOTE:
The topographic map shows that Mount Moriah is not a single peak, but an elongated ridge which commences to rise at its Southern end at the junction of the Kidron and Hinnom Valleys, at the original City of David, (elevation approximately 600 meters).
http://www.templemount.org/moriah2.html END QOUTE.
It covers the area north of the Golden Dome, all the way through the City of DAVID, to the Southern end where it meets the Kidron Valley. So Mount Zion is in the Middle of Mount Moriah.
In the Middle of that RIDGE is the OPHEL, and it is the southern part of OPHEL where archaeologists now believe the TEMPLE should be location, and NO PALESTINIAN has any claim there. If you want to know more, please refer to my thread:
https://christianchat.com/bible-discussion-forum/third-temple-news.155526/page-80