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Temple
Feature Pages(5+)
- Feature2 Chronicles — the Study GuideThe priest's Bible-in-miniature for a people rebuilding a house: Solomon's glory-filled temple, the seek/forsake ledger of Judah's kings, Manasseh's worst-sin-then-deepest-repentance, and the book's closing hinge into Ezra.
- FeatureThe Sects of Second Temple JudaismA featured study.
- FeatureEzekiel's TempleNine chapters of cubits drawn from their own numbers: the measured plan, the glory returning by the east gate, and the river that heals a dead sea.
- FeatureEzekiel — the Study GuideThe glory that left, and the glory that returns — the kavod migration walked station by station, from the throne on wheels in exile to a city renamed 'the LORD is there'.
- FeatureThe Glory DepartedFour abominations in the temple and five stations of the exit: God walked out of Jerusalem years before Babylon burned it.
Verses(5+)
- VerseLuke 24:53praising God continually in the temple.
- Verse1 Kings 6:14So Solomon built the temple and finished it.
- Verse1 Corinthians 3:17If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.
- VersePsalms 48:9Within Your temple, O God, we contemplate Your loving devotion.
- VersePsalms 68:29Because of Your temple at Jerusalem kings will bring You gifts.
People(5+)
- PersonAsaphA Levitical chief musician appointed by David over the temple song (1 Chr 16); twelve psalms bear his name (Ps 50, 73–83).
- PersonSolomonDavid's son and the third king of Israel; the temple-builder and wisdom-king, to whom Psalms 72 and 127 are ascribed.
- PersonZachariasA priest of the course of Abijah and the father of John the Baptist. Struck dumb for doubting Gabriel's announcement in the temple, he is filled with the Holy Spirit at his…
- PersonAnnaA prophetess of the tribe of Asher, a widow of great age who did not depart from the temple, serving with fastings and supplications night and day. She gives thanks over the…
- PersonJosiahThe boy-king who found the book of the law in the temple, tore his clothes, and led Judah's last great reformation and Passover before dying at Megiddo.
Places(5+)
- PlaceThe TempleThe house of the LORD in Jerusalem — Solomon's temple and the Second Temple — the place the Psalms long to enter and praise God (Ps 84; 122).
- PlaceMoriahThe mountain of the binding of Isaac — later the temple mount (2 Chr 3:1).
- PlaceZionThe Temple hill and, by extension, Jerusalem as the dwelling-place of God — the gravitational center of the Psalms (Ps 48; 132; 137).
- PlaceEphesusGreat harbor city of Asia, home of the Artemis temple; Paul's three-year base where the word grew mightily; addressed in Ephesians and first of the seven churches of Revelation.
- PlaceShilohWhere the tabernacle rested through the judges' era; Hannah prayed here, Samuel heard his name in the night, and its later ruin became Jeremiah's warning to the temple city.
Events(1)
Words (Strong's)(5+)
- WordG3485 ναός · naós (Greek)a fane, shrine, temple
- WordG2411 ἱερόν · hierón (Greek)a sacred place, i.e. the entire precincts (whereas denotes the central sanctuary itself) of the Temple (at Jerusalem or elsewhere)
- WordH1964 הֵיכָל · hêykâl (Hebrew)a large public building, such as a palace or temple
- WordH1965 הֵיכַל · hêykal (Hebrew){a large public building, such as a palace or temple}
- WordG3624 οἶκος · oîkos (Greek)a dwelling (more or less extensive, literal or figurative)
Concepts(1)
Themes(5)
- ThemeHolinessHoliness begins as a claim about God before it becomes a summons to His people. The Hebrew *qadosh* carries a double sense — "set apart" and "whole, intact" — and Leviticus…
- ThemeMercyMercy in Scripture is not a mood God occasionally feels but a self-disclosed name. When the LORD passes before Moses on Sinai and proclaims who He is, the first words out are…
- ThemePrayerPrayer enters the canon as a corporate act, not a private technique: "then began men to call upon the name of Jehovah" (Genesis 4:26) describes a community, not a method. The…
- ThemeWorshipScripture's worship vocabulary carries two roots held together: *shachah* (to bow down, prostrate) and *abad* (to serve, to labor for). *Shachah* is first rendered "worship" at…
- ThemeCreationScripture opens with a claim, not an argument: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" (Gen 1:1). The Genesis account moves in an ordered six-day sequence…
Topics(1)
Prophecies(5+)
- ProphecyTemple Stones Thrown DownThe temple would be so thoroughly destroyed that not one stone would remain on another.
- ProphecyTemple Destruction Prophesied by JesusDaniel predicted Jerusalem's destruction after Messiah's cutting off, and Jesus predicted the Temple would be so completely destroyed that 'not one stone would be left upon…
- ProphecyMillennial Temple BuiltA glorious temple will be built in Jerusalem during the millennium, described in detail in Ezekiel 40-48.
- ProphecyCleanses the TempleThe Messiah would zealously cleanse the temple.
- ProphecyBorn Before Temple DestructionThe Messiah would come to the temple - requiring the temple to exist.
Apologetics(3)
- ApologeticsDestruction of the Second Temple (AD 70)Jesus told his disciples the temple would be leveled — "there shall not be left here one stone upon another" (Matthew 24:2) — and on the tenth of the month Ab, AD 70, Titus'…
- ApologeticsPool of Siloam DiscoveryIn June 2004 a sewer repair at the southern tip of the City of David cut into monumental stone steps, and Ronny Reich and Eli Shukron identified a trapezoidal Second Temple…
- ApologeticsThe Gallio Inscription at DelphiNine marble fragments of a public letter from the emperor Claudius, recovered at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi, name "Lucius Junius Gallio, my friend and proconsul of Achaia"…
Authors(1)
Apocrypha (study resources)(5+)
- Study resource1 Maccabees 2:8Her temple is become as a man without glory.
- Study resource1 Maccabees 14:15He beautified the sanctuary, and multiplied vessels of the temple.
- Study resourceBaruch 6:21Their faces are blacked through the smoke that cometh out of the temple.
- Study resource1 Maccabees 16:20And others he sent to take Jerusalem, and the mountain of the temple.
- Study resourceSirach 51:14I prayed for her before the temple, and will seek her out even to the end.
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G3485ναός naós — a fane, shrine, templeG2411ἱερόν hierón — a sacred place, i.e. the entire precincts (whereas
denotes the central sanctuary itself) of the Temple (at Jerusalem
or elsewhere)H1964הֵיכָל hêykâl — a large public building, such as a palace or templeH1965הֵיכַל hêykal — {a large public building, such as a palace or temple}G3624οἶκος oîkos — a dwelling (more or less extensive, literal or
figurative)H7541רַקָּה raqqâh — properly, thinness, i.e. the side of the head