of 2 Kings clearly indicates that there was an existing knowledge of what today is called

blueprintingg". It is clear that the ancient people of the Bible had a method for drawing plans for

structures that were to be constructed.

 Then King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria. He saw an
 altar in Damascus and sent to Uriah the priest a sketch of the altar, with detailed plans for
 its construction. [11] So Uriah the priest built an altar in accordance with all the plans that
 King Ahaz had sent from Damascus and finished it before King Ahaz returned (2 Kings
 16:10-11 NIV).

 The use of construction plans date as far back as Moses (1500 B.C.) and without question

even earlier. God said to Moses, "you shall erect the tabernacle according to its plan which you

have been shown in the mountain" (Exodus 26:30 NASB). It is not known how the plan was

drawn. God was the one who told Moses about it, so either he memorized how it was to be

constructed or he wrote it down on some parchment. It is unlikely that Moses had a writing

utensil with him while he was in the mountain with God for 40 days and nights, so he must have

remembered it well enough to get it put in writing. If it was written on a parchment it has not

passed the test of time since it has not been preserved.

 In the same manner that Moses was the architect for the tabernacle, King David was the

architect for the first temple in Jerusalem. David made very detailed plans for the temple as 1

Chronicles says,

 Then David gave his son Solomon the plans for the portico of the temple, its buildings, its
 storerooms, its upper parts, its inner rooms and the place of atonement. [12] He gave him
 the plans of all that the Spirit had put in his mind for the courts of the temple of the Lord
 and all the surrounding rooms, for the treasuries of the temple of God and for the treasuries
 for the dedicated things (1 Chronicles 28:11-12 NIV).

 There were dozens of people that were managing the temple construction. There is no

possible way to have a unified understanding of the plans for the temple unless they were written

in some form. Blueprints, or plans, have been necessary in building construction since the dawn

of time, especially in the construction of major projects where there are many managers and