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

FREEMASONRY AND KNIGHTS TEMPLAR"& When Solomon was about to build the Temple(II. Chron. i.10) he called upon Hiram, kingTHE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON.of Tyre, to furnish himwith a supply of timber.The Tyrian king not onlysupplied him with the timber,which was cut in theforest of Lebanon by theSicleonites and sent onfloats by sea to Joppa,* adistance of over one hundredmiles, and thence carriedby land about fortymiles to Jerusalem, but also sent him a man by thename of Hiram Abiff, the most accomplished designerand operator then known in the country.Tyre* and Sidon* were the chief cities of the Phce-41