HIDDEN TEMPLE TREASURES.

Dunstan Times, Issue 3379, 20 June 1927, Page 8

HIDDEN TEMPLE TREASURES.

A unique treasure hunt has begun on Mount Noho. that memorable spot on the earth’s surface, on the other side of the Fiver Jordan, in Palestine, from whose summit Moses was permitted by Hod to view the Promised Land. Mr J. Futtcrer, president of the American Jerusalem Bible Institute of Los Angeles, has been granted permission hy the Palestine Government to search’this mountain for the Ark of the Covenant, the. Altar ol incense, and other treasures from Solomon’s Temple, which the Prophet Jeremiah is believed to have hidden in one of the clefts of Mount Neho, before ihe capture ol Jerusalem hy Nebuchadnezzar, to prevent them falling into the hands of the Chaldeans and their consequent profanation.

There was not object held in such veneration by the ancient Hebrews as the Ark of the Covenant. It was the most sacred of their religions symbols. In design it was an oblong chest, made of acacia or sliittim wood, fashioned “according to the pattern shown_ by Cod to Moses in the Mount (Sinai).” it was overlaid with pure gold, both within and without, two and a half cubits in length and a cubit and a ball in width and height. .A rim of gold ran along the edges, and the staves ay which it was carried passed through rings of gold. -Inside the Ark were the tablets of stone on which tiie'Commandments were engraved, a golden pot containing manna, and Aaron’s rod that buddecl. The lid or covering o the Ark formed the mercy seat, at each end of which was a golden chcrnbin with outspread wings. .But the Ark was only one of the many valuable treasures tbal Jeremiah is supposed to have hidden. There was the Altar of Incense, ilia Table ol Shrewhread, in addition to candlesticks, [avers and vessels, nearly all of them being of pure gold. Those competent to judge estimated them value at not less than C20.0(li),0')().

II has always been a tradition amony the Jews that Jeremiah secretly hid all these sacred furnishings and vessels from the Temple on lonely .Mount Nebo. in Transjordania. True, others have looked elsewhere for tiioni. Just before the war Captain Barker made a search for these sacred articles under the Temple area in Jerusalem. He was led to do so through the declaration of a Swedish scholar, .Mr Javelins, who declared that as a ’’csnlt of a study of Hebrew and the Talmud lie had stumbled across the. hiding-place of the Temple fnrnishngy. Although an extensive examination was made o' the

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