“I still maintain that the Temple did NOT stand on what they call the Temple mount. “
Interesting position and one I’d not heard before. Where is it you believe the temple stood.
There are many who have theorized that the Temple stood to the south of the current Temple Mount, in what is called the City of David. The arguments made for that view have to do with the location of the Gihon Springs and various passages in the Bible, especially the one where Jesus said, “not one stone will be left upon another.”
Some Christians who want to speed up the “End Times” and rebuilt Temple imagine the Temple site is southwest of the Old City in what is called the City of David. The reason for such imagination is to avoid Muslim objections and control of the traditional Temple Mount site.