MessageToEagle.com – Did King Solomon have access to sophisticated ancient technology? What kind of device was able to cut through or disintegrate stone, iron and diamond thousands of years ago?
King Solomon, son of King David and Bathsheba, is renowned in the Old Testament for his wisdom. He is also known for his riches, which were given Solomon by God, along with the wisdom.
According to a very interesting legend found in the Talmudic literature, King Solomon built his magnificent temple in Jerusalem with help of a magical worm named Shamir.
The Shamir was without doubt an extraordinary object as it possessed the ability to alter stone, iron and diamond, by its mere gaze.
The Shamir existed already in the time of Moses who used to engrave the Hoshen (Priestly breastplate) stones that were inserted into the breastplate. When King Solomon learned about the object he commissioned a search that turned up a “grain of Shamir the size of a barley-corn.
According to the story, King Solomon learned from the demon Ashmedai that the worm had been entrusted to the care of the Prince of the Sea who has given it into the charge of the hoopoe bird (or woodcock).
Solomon’s servant set out to find it, and succeeded in delivering it safely to King Solomon.
The most puzzling part of this story is that no-one really knows what the Shamir was.
According to the legend, the material to be worked, whether stone, wood or metal, was affected by being “shown to the Shamir.” What does it mean? From where did this marvelous Shamir come? How was it kept?
Some scholars have suggested that the Shamir was almost like a living being. Other early sources, describe it as a green stone.
It is said that the Shamir was always wrapped in wool and stored in a container made of lead, since any other vessel would burst and disintegrate under its gaze. Based on this description, some scholars have concluded that the Shamir’s true nature was radioactive, that it was in fact a small sample of a naturally occurring radioactive isotope, possibly radium.
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In the Book of Kings it is written: “For the house, while it was in the building, was built of stone made ready at the quarry; and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house while it was being built.” The midrash tells us: The stones moved of their own accord; they flew and rose up by themselves, setting themselves in the wall of the Temple and erecting it.”
This sounds like ancient people mastered levitation.
However, according to another tradition, the Shamir readied the stones, so that the stones emerged hewn from the quarry, ready for placement in Solomon’s Temple. Solomon remembered the biblical injunction: “….if you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stones; for if you lift up your tool upon it, you have polluted it.” (Exodus 20:25)
Unfortunately, the purpose and origin of the Shamir remain unknown. We can only speculate what role this enigmatic object played in the construction of King Solomon’s Temple.
Furthermore, the Shamir was said to have been either lost or had lost its potency by the time of the destruction of the First Temple at the hands of Nebuchadnezzar in 586 B.C.
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