When was the first temple in Israel built?
The first temple in Israel was built by Solomon around 960 B.C. The context indicates David was about a thousand years before Christ and ruled forty years before Solomon, which supports the approximate date. So Israel's first temple dates to roughly 960 B.C.
Les explains that in Israel's history there have been two temples in the past, with a third yet to come. The first temple was the one built by Solomon, dating to about 960 B.C., because David was about a thousand years before Christ and ruled forty years before Solomon. The second temple was rebuilt first by Ezra after the Babylonian captivity, but it was makeshift compared to Solomon's. Later Herod the Great remodeled and enlarged it, and that was the temple at Christ's first Advent.