The House That Solomon Built—and Babylon Burned
History of the Papacy Podcast
History of the Papacy
4.4 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
The First Temple stood as the heart of ancient Judah—until Babylon rolled in.
This episode dives into the fall of Solomon’s Temple: shifting empires, bad kings, and a Babylonian king who didn’t just conquer, he changed everything.
From palace intrigue to prophetic warnings to a smoking ruin, we trace the collapse of a kingdom—and what rose from the ashes.
#SolomonsTemple #AncientHistory #BibleHistory #Babylon #Nebuchadnezzar #OldTestament #JewishHistory #Jerusalem #HistoryPodcast
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| 0:23.3 | Start and end your day with God's Word. |
| 0:25.4 | Search for the Daily Bible Devotion app in the App Store or Google Play Store |
| 0:29.6 | and download it today. Welcome back to the history of the papacy podcast, a podcast about the popes of Rome and Christian church. |
| 0:49.4 | Prepare yourself to step behind the ropes and leave the official tour of the story of the |
| 0:54.5 | popes and Christianity. |
| 0:57.0 | I am your host, Steve Guerra, and I thank you for joining me on this journey. |
| 1:18.7 | Welcome back to the History of the Papacy podcast. I am your host, Steve Gwara. Thank you for joining me today. |
| 1:29.8 | Previously, we traced the long and complex story of the first temples, renovation, and religious reforms from the earliest damage possibly inflicted by the Egyptian Pharaoh through the piecemeal repairs under Joash and the dramatic religious |
| 1:36.1 | centralization efforts of Hezekiah and then big sweeping reforms of King Josiah. |
| 1:43.0 | We followed the ups and the downs of a sacred space that served as the religious heart of the kingdom of Judah. |
| 1:51.5 | Josiah's death at Meggito was not just the fall of the reforming king. |
| 1:56.0 | It was the beginning of the end for the kingdom itself. |
| 1:59.7 | The spiritual renewal he tried to ignite could not |
| 2:03.0 | stop the geopolitical tsunami that swept across the entire ancient near east. Right now, we're going to |
| 2:12.1 | turn to the final days of the first temple. We will explore the destruction of Solomon's great structure, |
| 2:19.4 | and then the unraveling of the monarchy of Judah, the conquest of Jerusalem by the Babylonian |
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