Temple, the Second
Built on the site of the first temple -- Ezr 6:2-12. Cyrus His decree for building, predicted. -- Isa 44:28. Gave a decree for building, in the first year of his reign. -- Ezr 1:1,2; 6:3. Gave permission to the Jews to go to Jerusalem to build. -- Ezr 1:3. Furnished means for building. -- Ezr 6:4. Ordered those who remained in Babylon to contribute to the building of. -- Ezr 1:4. Gave the vessels of the first temple for. -- Ezr 1:7-11; 6:5. Divine worship commenced before the foundation was laid -- Ezr 3:1-6. Materials for building procured from Tyre and Sidon -- Ezr 3:7. Foundation of, laid the second month of second year after the captivity -- Ezr 3:8. Solemnities connected with laying the foundation of -- Ezr 3:9-11. Its dimensions -- Ezr 6:3,4. Grief of those who had seen the first temple -- Ezr 3:12; Hag 2:3. Joy of those who had not seen the first temple -- Ezr 3:13. The Samaritans Proposed to assist in building. -- Ezr 4:1,2. Their help refused by the Jews. -- Ezr 4:3. Weakened the hands of the Jews in building. -- Ezr 4:4,5. Wrote to Artaxerxes Smerdis to interrupt the building. -- Ezr 4:6-16. Procured its interruption for fifteen years. -- Ezr 4:24. The Jews reproved for not building -- Hag 1:1-5. The Jews punished for not persevering in building -- Hag 1:6,9-11; 2:15,17; Zec 8:10. The Jews encouraged to proceed in building -- Hag 1:8; 2:19; Zec 8:9. Resumed by Zerubbabel and Jeshua -- Ezr 5:2. Its completion by Zerubbabel foretold, to encourage the Jews -- Zec 4:4-10. Future glory of, predicted -- Hag 2:7-9. Tatnai the governor wrote to Darius to know if the building had his sanction -- Ezr 5:3-17. The decree of Cyrus found and confirmed by Darius -- Ezr 6:1,2,6-12. Finished the third of the twelfth month in the sixth year of Darius -- Ezr 6:15. Dedication of, celebrated with joy and thankfulness -- Ezr 6:16-18. Repaired and beautified by Herod, which occupied forty-six years -- Joh 2:20. The magnificence of its building and ornaments -- Joh 2:20; Mr 13:1; Lu 21:5. Beautiful gate of, mentioned -- Ac 3:2. Solomon's porch connected with -- Joh 10:23; Ac 3:11. Christ To appear in. -- Hag 2:7; Mal 3:1. Presented in. -- Lu 2:22,27. Miraculously transported to a pinnacle of. -- Mt 4:5; Lu 4:9. Frequently taught in. -- Mr 14:49. Purified, and the commencement of his ministry. -- Joh 2:15-17. Purified, at the close of his ministry. -- Mt 21:12,13. Predicted its destruction. -- Mt 24:2; Mr 13:2; Lu 21:6. The vail of, rent at our Lord's death. -- Mt 27:51. Separation between the outer or Gentile court and that of the Jews alluded to -- Eph 2:13,14. No Gentile allowed to enter the inner courts of -- Ac 21:27-30. The Jews Prayed without, while the priest offered incense within. -- Lu 1:10; 18:10. Considered it blasphemy to speak against. -- Mt 26:61; Ac 6:13; 21:28. Desecrated by selling oxen, &c in. -- Joh 2:14. Desecration of, foretold -- Da 9:27; 11:31. Cleansed and rededicated by Judas Maccabaeus after its desecration by Antiochus Epiphanes -- Joh 10:22. Desecrated by the Romans -- Da 9:27; Mt 24:15.