The Origin of Freemasonry and Knights Templar ... - Lodge Prudentia

FREEMASONRY AND KNIGHTS TEMPLARaccording to the tribes (Josh, xviii.). Joshua diedin the year 1443 B. C, at the age of no years.Then followed a series ^f judges as rulers fornearly 350 years.In the year 1116 B. C, just before the battle ofthe Israelites and the Philistines* at Ebenezer, nearShiloh, the ark of the covenant was brought fromShiloh into the camp of the Israelites to inspire themwith greater courage and confidence, but the Philistinesovercame them, captured the ark and carriedit first to Ashdod, then to Gath, and fromthere to Ekron. In 1115 B. C. it was returned bythe Philistines from Ekron to the Israelites at Kirjath-jearim,a city of the Gibeonites situated aboutnine miles northwest of Jerusalem, and there placedin the house of Abinadab, a Levite, where it remainedfor seventy years before being conveyed toSam. iv.-vi.).Jerusalem (IThe tabernacle was taken from Shiloh to Gibeon,*but the exact time of its removal is not known. InI. Chron. xxi. 29, it states that the tabernacle ofMoses was still at Gibeon (1017 B. C.). Again, inII. Chron. i.3-13, that the tabernacle still remainedat Gibeon, and that Solomon went there to sacrificebefore it. This is the last mention made of it.Jewish History.The firstJewish history extends from the timeof the conquest of Canaan, 1445 B. C., to the establishmentof the monarchy under Saul, 1095 B. C.,During this period Israel was governed in thename of Jehovah by judges who were thechiefs or leaders of Israel (a theocracy).33rulers,Previous