david s sins impact his children and his grandchildren all the way down. david s sons have grown up learning how to deal with women from their father. two of david s sons grow up to be rapists. reporter: and indeed, david it did suffer the consequences of his actions. the child he s conceived with bathsheba dies. and he mourns and mourns and mourns. and again, you get the old attractive lovely david again. we have to look at david in both ways. he rose to the height of power, and he sunk to the depths of depravity. and yet he comes back. he repents. reporter: and the bible tells us that god never stops loving david. he forgives the sins of this imperfect hero. david was given a second chance, a second child with bathsheba, a son named solomon. coming up today it s the most contested spiritual site on
most of them. but we are still left with a huge, large question mark regarding the time of david and solomon. one day maybe you ll find out. or not. this is also an answer. reporter: today jews pray at the only wall that remains of the second temple that was built later and also destroyed. the idea of the first temple was so powerful that for thousands of years people of different faiths have considered that same spot sacred. even muslims decided to build their sacred building on the same spot, on the same hill. reporter: even though evidence of the temple or the man himself hasn t been found, most scholars believe there was a solomon. but not the larger than life solomon in the hebrew bible did not exist. he did not rule a vast kingdom. he did not build a huge capital city in jerusalem. he was not a nationally or internationally known figure. reporter: even though the wisdom of solomon is legendary,
son named solomon. coming up today it s the most contested spiritual site on earth. but is it also where king solomon put the ark of the covenant? our amazing journey continues when back to the beginning with christiane amanpour returns. rp. good. i hate surprises. surprise! at discover, we treat you like you d treat you. get the it card and see your fico® credit score.
nobody knows. is there any evidence of this no evidence. no evidence at all. only many stories around. reporter: if only these walls could speak. they do, however, appear almost to weep. and their tears are said to tell a powerful story about the destruction of jerusalem. the name of this corner is tzedakiah s tears. tears of the king. the tears of the king. tzedakiah was the last king of judea. tears for the destruction of the temple. the nation. this was the end of the first temple period. do we think that these tears, this mineral spring, has been running since then? well, i think it s running since many, many years. for sure it s more than 2,000 years old. and it s really interesting because look, there are people here, there are people all over the place. it s still a living, breathing place. reporter: which allows the people who visit to connect with their spiritual heritage.
it turns out like his father he had flaws too. his government is inflated. he runs it according to corve, awith forced labor. he s married or marrying hundreds of wives and hundreds of concubines, who as the bible say took his heart astray. reporter: the wives solomon took tone hans ties with foreign kingdoms turned him to their idols and eventually corrupted his own relationship with god. and the story of solomon s downfall is an interesting window into the religious practices of the early israelites. people worshiped many gods. you could pick them up. you could see them. you could pray to them and expect that they would have effect. this wasn t the judaism that we know today. archaeologists have found evidence that the israelites worshiped idols before david and until the time of jesus. there are those who say i