Alexander the Great in Jerusalem – Solomon’s Temple
After the Battle of Issus, Alexander arrived at the unconquerable city of Tyre. After a long siege, he demolishes the walls of the city and with the help of Greek and Cyprian ships, he conquers the Phoenician city. Alexander’s reprisals for the sixth-month long siege were harsh. After sacrifices to the temple of Tyre Heracles, Alexander departs for Jerusalem.
Hephaistion: What a beautiful Temple!
Army: The Temple of King Solomon!
Hephaistion: Looks like the Temple of Melkarth at Tyre
Samaritans: King Alexander, we are the peoples of Yahweh. Let us demolish the temple of Solomon.
Jews: Don’t listen to them King Alexander
Samaritans: Kill them, King Alexander.
Jews: Kill them, King Alexander.
Samaritans: The temple of Garizin.
Alexander: Be quiet; I do not demolish temples, I build them.
Jews: We hate them, kill them all like you killed the people of Tyre and Gaza.
Samaritans: Do not listen to them, king.
Hephaistion: Shut up all, Tyre and Gaza were enemies.
Alexander: From this day on, you will be free Jews, and you Samaritans you will obey them.
Jews: King of Hellenes, liberator of Israel; welcome Alexander.
Jadduas: Daniel’s prophesies tell about a Great King of the Greeks who will arrive. Jerusalem welcomes you, Alexander; liberator of the people, Yahweh’s dearest.
Alexander: Tell me about these prophesies, High Priest Jadduas.
Jadduas: Here they are, within our sacred texts.
Barsine: Alexander.
Alexander: What do you want Barsine?
Barsine: I love you Alexander… Priest Jadduas, marry us!
Jadduas: Whatever the king, says my child…
Alexander: I have no time for ceremonies right now.
Barsine: I want to have your child, Alexander. The child will be sent to us by Melqart[3] who helped you conquer Tyre.
Alexander: Go and sacrifice to Melqart and when the child comes, if it is a boy it will be named Heracles of Macedon.
Barsine: Heracles.
Alexander: And when Heracles is born, you will take him to my mother Olympias.
Barsine: I will return to Greece. To Olympias the Great, in Macedonia, where we met as children!
Jadduas: All our firstborn boys we will name after you Alexander!
Jews & Samaritans: Glory to Alexander and to Greece!
Alexander: O Jadduas, I have a message for the people of Yahweh.
Jadduas: O beloved of Yahweh, King Alexander.
Chorus: Glory to Yahwe; Glory to our Alexander.
Alexander: I bring a prophecy to Israel from my mother.
Jadduas: People of Jerusalem a great prophecy comes to us from the Great Priestess Olympias, the mother of Alexander.
Chorus: Your are above Semiramide and Hatshepsut Olympias!
We thank you Great Priestess Olympias.
Alexander: “The Temple of Solomon will be cut in two, the pillar of Jachin will fall in the west and the pillar of Boaz will fall to the east. You will be back to Israel one day but only when the Temple will be rebuild peace will come
Jadduas: We will be dispersed again, Jewish priesthood will be lost.
And then which will be the signs of the times.
Alexander: A child will be born from my people and in the sixth month of his life you will wage a six-day victorious war. When he is grown up he will instruct you to rebuild the temple
Jadduas: Our god never abandons his people.
Alexander: he will be born on the sixth day with a pyramid in his palm.
The Liberator of Jerusalem
He will sing my praises here with David’s lyre, in Israel’s Jerusalem for your temple to be built. Yahweh.
Chorus: You will return to earth like another David.
O king Alexander of the Greeks
To liberate New Jerusalem
To bring peace againTo renew all the nations like on
Hephaistion: What a beautiful Temple!
Army: The Temple of King Solomon!
Hephaistion: Looks like the Temple of Melkarth at Tyre
Samaritans: King Alexander, we are the peoples of Yahweh. Let us demolish the temple of Solomon.
Jews: Don’t listen to them King Alexander
Samaritans: Kill them, King Alexander.
Jews: Kill them, King Alexander.
Samaritans: The temple of Garizin.
Alexander: Be quiet; I do not demolish temples, I build them.
Jews: We hate them, kill them all like you killed the people of Tyre and Gaza.
Samaritans: Do not listen to them, king.
Hephaistion: Shut up all, Tyre and Gaza were enemies.
Alexander: From this day on, you will be free Jews, and you Samaritans you will obey them.
Jews: King of Hellenes, liberator of Israel; welcome Alexander.
Jadduas: Daniel’s prophesies tell about a Great King of the Greeks who will arrive. Jerusalem welcomes you, Alexander; liberator of the people, Yahweh’s dearest.
Alexander: Tell me about these prophesies, High Priest Jadduas.
Jadduas: Here they are, within our sacred texts.
Barsine: Alexander.
Alexander: What do you want Barsine?
Barsine: I love you Alexander… Priest Jadduas, marry us!
Jadduas: Whatever the king, says my child…
Alexander: I have no time for ceremonies right now.
Barsine: I want to have your child, Alexander. The child will be sent to us by Melqart[3] who helped you conquer Tyre.
Alexander: Go and sacrifice to Melqart and when the child comes, if it is a boy it will be named Heracles of Macedon.
Barsine: Heracles.
Alexander: And when Heracles is born, you will take him to my mother Olympias.
Barsine: I will return to Greece. To Olympias the Great, in Macedonia, where we met as children!
Jadduas: All our firstborn boys we will name after you Alexander!
Jews & Samaritans: Glory to Alexander and to Greece!
Alexander: O Jadduas, I have a message for the people of Yahweh.
Jadduas: O beloved of Yahweh, King Alexander.
Chorus: Glory to Yahwe; Glory to our Alexander.
Alexander: I bring a prophecy to Israel from my mother.
Jadduas: People of Jerusalem a great prophecy comes to us from the Great Priestess Olympias, the mother of Alexander.
Chorus: Your are above Semiramide and Hatshepsut Olympias!
We thank you Great Priestess Olympias.
Alexander: “The Temple of Solomon will be cut in two, the pillar of Jachin will fall in the west and the pillar of Boaz will fall to the east. You will be back to Israel one day but only when the Temple will be rebuild peace will come
Jadduas: We will be dispersed again, Jewish priesthood will be lost.
And then which will be the signs of the times.
Alexander: A child will be born from my people and in the sixth month of his life you will wage a six-day victorious war. When he is grown up he will instruct you to rebuild the temple
Jadduas: Our god never abandons his people.
Alexander: he will be born on the sixth day with a pyramid in his palm.
The Liberator of Jerusalem
He will sing my praises here with David’s lyre, in Israel’s Jerusalem for your temple to be built. Yahweh.
Chorus: You will return to earth like another David.
O king Alexander of the Greeks
To liberate New Jerusalem
To bring peace againTo renew all the nations like on
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