King Solomon had just given his inauguration speech when he decided to publicly worship God. But the tabernacle and altar weren’t in Jerusalem.
Approximately 440 years before Solomon became king, a craftsman named Bezalel had been charged by God to build the altar, the ark, and most elements inside the tabernacle.
2 Chronicles 1:5 says, “But the bronze altar that Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made was in Gibeon in front of the tabernacle of the Lord; so Solomon and the assembly inquired of him there.”
The altar that Bezalel made survived 40 years in the desert and hundreds of additional years of use at the tabernacle. Bezalel’s work endured 440 years!
In this series, we will discuss Bezalel’s attributes that made his work so enduring.
