TEMPLE

TEMPLE, The Second

  1. Built on the site of the first temple # Ezr 6:2-12
  2. CYRUS 2a) His decree for building, predicted

    # Isa 44:28

2b) Gave a decree for building, in the first year of his reign # Ezr 1:1,2 6:3 2c) Gave permission to the Jews to go to Jerusalem to build # Ezr 1:3 2d) Furnished means for building # Ezr 6:4 2e) Ordered those who remained in Babylon to contribute to the building of # Ezr 1:4 2f) Gave the vessels of the first temple for # Ezr 1:7-11 6:5 3) Divine worship commenced before the foundation was laid # Ezr 3:1-6 4) Materials for building procured from Tyre and Sidon # Ezr 3:7 5) Foundation of, laid the second month of second year after the captivity # Ezr 3:8 6) Solemnities connected with laying the foundation of # Ezr 3:9-11 7) Its dimensions # Ezr 6:3,4 8) Grief of those who had seen the first temple # Ezr 3:12 Hag 2:3 9) Joy of those who had not seen the first temple # Ezr 3:13 10) THE SAMARITANS 10a) Proposed to assist in building # Ezr 4:1,2 10b) Their help refused by the Jews # Ezr 4:3 10c) Weakened the hands of the Jews in building # Ezr 4:4,5 10d) Wrote to Artaxerxes Smerdis to interrupt the building # Ezr 4:6-16 10e) Procured its interruption for fifteen years # Ezr 4:24 11) The Jews reproved for not building # Hag 1:1-5 12) The Jews punished for not persevering in building # Hag 1:6,9-11 2:15,17 Zec 8:10 13) The Jews encouraged to proceed in building # Hag 1:8 2:19 Zec 8:9 14) Resumed by Zerubbabel and Jeshua # Ezr 5:2 15) Its completion by Zerubbabel foretold, to encourage the Jews # Zec 4:4-10 16) Future glory of, predicted # Hag 2:7-9 17) Tatnai the governor wrote to Darius to know if the building had his sanction # Ezr 5:3-17 18) The decree of Cyrus found and confirmed by Darius # Ezr 6:1,2,6-12 19) Finished the third of the twelfth month in the sixth year of Darius # Ezr 6:15 20) Dedication of, celebrated with joy and thankfulness # Ezr 6:16-18 21) Repaired and beautified by Herod, which occupied forty-six years # Joh 2:20 22) The magnificence of its building and ornaments # Joh 2:20 Mr 13:1 Lu 21:5 23) Beautiful gate of, mentioned # Ac 3:2 24) Solomon’s porch connected with # Joh 10:23 Ac 3:11 25) CHRIST 25a) To appear in # Hag 2:7 Mal 3:1 25b) Presented in # Lu 2:22,27 25c) Miraculously transported to a pinnacle of # Mt 4:5 Lu 4:9 25d) Frequently taught in # Mr 14:49 25e) Purified, and the commencement of his ministry # Joh 2:15-17 25f) Purified, at the close of his ministry # Mt 21:12,13 25g) Predicted its destruction # Mt 24:2 Mr 13:2 Lu 21:6 25h) The vail of, rent at our Lord’s death # Mt 27:51 26) Separation between the outer or Gentile court and that of the Jews alluded to # Eph 2:13,14 27) No Gentile allowed to enter the inner courts of # Ac 21:27-30 28) THE JEWS 28a) Prayed without, while the priest offered incense within # Lu 1:10 18:10 28b) Considered it blasphemy to speak against # Mt 26:61 Ac 6:13 21:28 28c) Desecrated by selling oxen, &c in # Joh 2:14 29) Desecration of, foretold # Da 9:27 11:31 30) Cleansed and rededicated by Judas Maccabaeus after its desecration by Antiochus Epiphanes # Joh 10:22 31) Desecrated by the Romans # Da 9:27 Mt 24:15