MAIN REFERENCES:
SOLOMON’S INCLUSION OF NON-ISRAELITES IN HIS INAUGURAL SPEECH AT HIS TEMPLE
For Solomon’s welcoming of non-Israelites to worship the one true God at his Temple, see his dedication of the Temple to God in: 2 Chronicles 6:32-33 and 1 Kings 8:41. This was later confirmed by the Prophet Isaiah in Isaiah 56:6-7. The exclusion of Gentiles from the Temple in later periods was either (a) a reference to non-believing Gentile idolaters or (b) a religious corruption by the rabbis. The latter is supported by Jesus’ objection to the exclusion of believing Gentiles from the temple in Matthew 27:54.
EXAMPLES OF JEWISH PROPHETS WHO WERE KILLED BY THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL BEFORE THE DESTRUCTION OF THE FIRST TEMPLE
The Bible describes how the Prophet Amos warned the Children of Israel that if they did not repent from their sins, then the wrath of their Lord would descend upon them. God inspires him to tell the Children of Israel why their immorality is especially deserving of divine wrath: “You alone have I singled out of all the families of the earth—that is why I will call you to account for your iniquities.” (Amos 3:2) According to Rabbinical tradition, the Prophet Amos was killed by the Jewish king Uzziah (Karl Budde, Kaufmann Kohler, Louis Ginzberg, “Amos”, The Jewish Encyclopedia, https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/1423-amos)
The Bible describes how the Prophet Isaiah warned the Children of Israel (particularly the rich and powerful ones) that if they did not repent from their sins, then the wrath of their Lord would descend upon them (see Isaiah 9:8-19, 10:1-6, and others) and the Talmud describes how the Jewish King Manasseh responded by ordering the Prophet Isaiah to be killed (see Yevamot 49b:8).
The Bible describes how the Prophet Jeremiah warned the Children of Israel that if they did not repent from their sins, then the wrath of their Lord would descend upon them and it also describes how he lived in constant fear of death, and how corrupt Jewish priests once convinced the Jewish King Zedekiah to kill him of starvation by throwing him into a cistern, from which he narrowly escaped death (see the Book of Jeremiah). Several extrabiblical traditions (such as “The Lives of the Prophets” and statements from early Church fathers) relate that Jeremiah was eventually stoned to death by the Jewish people in Egypt. For him to die in this manner is consistent with the many rejections and attempted murders that he experienced from the Jewish people throughout the Book of Jeremiah.
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