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• Herod'S Temple
  Herod'S Temple <ref name="term_33870" /> ...in all a square of more than 900 feet. It is argued by others that Herod's temple occupied a square of 600 feet at the south-west of the "enclosure." </p>
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• Herod
  ...ary fortress, government buildings, a palace for himself and a magnificent temple for the Jews (&nbsp;Matthew 27:27; &nbsp;Mark 13:1; &nbsp;John 2:20; &nbsp; ...d life that Caligula desisted from his attempt to set up his statue in the temple, which so engrossed the Jews that for a time they let the [[Christians]] al
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• Jerusalem
  ...re wholly burnt and destroyed, excepting the W. wall of the upper city and Herod's three great towers, which were left as memorials of the strength of the def ...usalem became a resort of pilgrims, the ‘sacred sites’ did not include the Temple area, the Jewish Zion, which indeed was regarded by the Christians ‘with
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• Altar
  ...hed from the brazen altar of burnt offering), of acacia wood (in Solomon's temple cedar) underneath, two cubits high, one square. Once a year, on the great d ...present and would accept the offering. With the building of the Solomonic Temple, the presence of God was associated especially with the ark of the covenant
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• Herodians
  ...instituted [[Pagan]] games, and placed a golden eagle over the gate of the temple of Jehovah; and he furnished the temples, which he reared in several places .... A falsely presumed political necessity was their plea for supporting the Herod's, however unfaithful to God, and even for supporting the Roman government, i
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• John The Baptist
  ...an opinion of this prophet's sanctity, that they ascribed the overthrow of Herod's army, which he had sent against his father-in- law, Aretas, to the just jud ...l reason was but the pretext for carrying into effect the determination of Herod's cabinet. That the fear of Herod was not without some ground may be seen in
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• Jesus Christ
  ...ry remained a full year in Bethlehem, during which the presentation in the Temple took place, and that the visit of the Magi was much later than the adoratio ...actions of three years earlier, again demonstrating his authority over the temple. This created a great stir among the people and a murderous hatred in the h
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• Temple Of Jerusalem
  ...ians 3:16-17; &nbsp;1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ). For John, the ideal which the temple represented will ultimately be realized in a “new Jerusalem” (&nbsp;Rev ...s://bibleportal.com/dictionary/holman-bible-dictionary/temple+of+jerusalem Temple Of Jerusalem from Holman Bible Dictionary]</ref>
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• Caesarea
  ...n to the many buildings a platform was raised near the harbor upon which a temple was built for [[Caesar]] with a [[Colossus]] of Caesar. </p> <p> After [[Ar ...ossi; a promenade round the port, with arches where sailors could lodge; a temple of Augustus raised on a platform, and visible far out at sea, containing tw
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• Cæsarea
  ...n to the many buildings a platform was raised near the harbor upon which a temple was built for [[Caesar]] with a [[Colossus]] of Caesar. </p> <p> After [[Ar ...ossi; a promenade round the port, with arches where sailors could lodge; a temple of Augustus raised on a platform, and visible far out at sea, containing tw
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• Worship
  ...l </p> <p> <i> See also </i> [[The Church]]; [[Israel]]; [[Tabernacle]]; [[Temple]]; [[Typology Type]] </p> <p> <i> Bibliography </i> . <i> ABD </i> 6:973-79 ...ristians by Celsus, and answered thus by Origen: "In the highest sense the temple and image of God are in the human nature of Christ; and hence, also, in all
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• Temple The
  Temple The <ref name="term_75170" /> ...en placed by Solomon, a thousand years before it was rebuilt by Herod. The Temple of Herod was destroyed by the Romans under Titus, Friday, August 9, [[A.D.]
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• Jews
  ...nts and their victims to Jerusalem, is absolutely fallen; for they have no temple, no altar, no sacrifices. Their land itself seems to lie under a never-ceas ...being always in rebellions (as Addison observes) while they had the Holy [[Temple]] in view, has excited most nations to banish them. Besides, the whole peop
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• Haggai
  ...d would bring treasures from other nations to make the splendor of the new Temple even greater than the former one (&nbsp;Haggai 2:6-9 ). </p> <p> The fourth ...st chanted the Hallelujah, the hymn of Haggai and Zechariah, in the second temple. The [[Hallelujah]] psalms belong certainly to the period after the return
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• Praetorium
  ..., was at his disposal. It is true that the proximity of [[Antonia]] to the Temple would be a convenience to the priests and Sanhedrists, and save them from t &nbsp;Mark 15:16 <p> Herod's praetorium in Caesarea (&nbsp;Acts 23:35 [[Nas, Rsv]] ) served as the resid
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• Egypt
  ...ing surnames. the quarries. Rameses III records his successes on his great temple of Medeenet Haboo in western Thebes; among them a naval victory in the Medi ...festivals, made a strong appeal to humanity. Around the principal god of a temple were grouped a number of other deities, subordinate to him there and formin
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• Music
  ...11:34; &nbsp;Psalms 150:4). In the music that David organized for Israel’s temple worship, the main instruments were harps, lyres and cymbals (&nbsp;1 Chroni ...several instruments in the reign of David. When [[Hezekiah]] restored the temple service, which had been neglected in his predecessor's reign, "he set the L
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• Magi
  ...mmentators, however, place their coming after Christ’s presentation in the Temple; and some, as an inference from &nbsp;Matthew 2:16, delay it till Jesus had ...owledged, as we have seen in the decree of Cyrus for the rebuilding of the temple. In that Cyrus acknowledged the true God to be supreme, and thus renounces
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• Samaria
  ...fortress with a wall 2½ miles in circumference, built in it a magnificent temple to Divus Caesar, adorned it with public buildings, colonnades and gateways, ...nt. 20:6, section 1, 18:2, section 2). John Hyrcanus destroyed the Gerizim temple, but they still directed their worship toward it; then they built one at Sh
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• Captivity
  ...nd began the temple. Then, after along interruption of the building of the temple through [[Samaritan]] opposition, the work was completed in the second year ...ra 2:2; &nbsp;Nehemiah 7:7. This company laid the foundation of the second temple, which was completed in the sixth year of Darius. Fifty-eight years after,
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• Palestine
  ...properly so called. It saw brilliant and well-defined masses of detail—the temple white on its hill, reeds in the river-bed, the numberless laughter of waves ...The earthquake in Uzziah's time (&nbsp;Zechariah 14:5), which injured the temple and brought down a mass of rock from Olivet (Josephus, Ant. 9:10, section 4
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• Herod The Great
  ...was proved to be guilty of plotting to have his father poisoned. </p> <p> Herod's body was greatly diseased: the increasing torments had even caused him to a ...Jerusalem, a work which was begun B.C. 20, but was not finished till after Herod's death, probably not till about A.D. 50 (&nbsp;John 2:20 ). After a troubled
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• Architecture
  ...specially remarkable for their great architectural works. Not only was the Temple restored, but the fortifications and other public buildings of [[Jerusalem] ...rchitecture, but that day is not yet. See, further, Fortification, Palace, Temple, Tomb. </p> <p> A. R. S. Kennedy. </p>
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• Maccabees
  ...(b.c. 63). Pompey went into the [[Holy]] of Holies, but did not touch the Temple treasures. He did, however, make Judæa tributary to Rome and greatly red ...ommission, who was sent by [[Seleucus]] to fetch away the treasures of the temple, to the victory obtained by Judas Maccabaeus over Nicanor; that is, from th
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• Pilate
  ...idence as they had was false and conflicting. Jesus’ statement about the [[Temple]] was repeated and misconstrued. Then the high priest elicited from Him a d ...quarters in the fortress known as the Tower of Antonia, which adjoined the Temple on the N. side. The <strong> prætorium </strong> formed part of this for
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• Agrippa
  ...ith the king concerning the affair of St. Paul, who had been seized in the temple about two years before, and within a few days previous to his visit had app ...Ant. 20, 5, 2; War, 2, 12, 1), together with the superintendence of the [[Temple]] at Jerusalem, and the privilege of nominating the high-priest (Josephus,
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• James
  ...nbsp;James 5:1) the scribes and [[Pharisees]] set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and begged him to restrain the people who were "going astray after Jesus a ...on, that the sufferings of the Jews, and the destruction of their city and temple, were owing to the anger of God, excited by the murder of James. This must
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• The Arrest And Trial Of Jesus Christ
  ...o their pity. He allowed his soldiers to repeat what they had seen done at Herod's palace, and place a crown of thorns upon His head, array Him in a purple ro
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• Rome
  ...e and the Palatine. Near this is a circular building, once perhaps the <b> Temple of Mater [[Matuta]] </b> , now the Church of S. Maria del Sole. The superst ...on the inside. Among other things these include the spoils of Jerusalem's temple being carried away—the minora, the table of showbread, the sacred trumpets
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• Josiah
  ...to immediate contact, as it were, with Moses himself, through the original temple copy. His tenderness of heart (conscience) and his humbling himself before ...ent from God, Josiah gathered Jerusalem’s leading citizens together at the temple, where the law was read to them. He gained their support in renewing the na
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• Antiochus Iv
  ...[Ptolemies]]; Herod the Great; Herod Antipas; Herod Philip; [[Archelaus]]; Temple; [[Dead Sea Scrolls]]; Hasmoneans. </p> <p> Clayton Harrop </p> ...to the eastern provinces and died, after having failed in an attack on the temple of the Sun in Elymais, in Persia. See also [[Abomination Of Desolation]]; [
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• Mary
  ...alem, without their perceiving it. Three days after, they found him in the temple, sitting among the doctors, hearing them and asking them questions. Afterwa
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• Theudas
  ...l down the golden eagle which had been placed over the great gate of the [[Temple]] ( <i> Ant </i> . XVII. vi. 2-4, <i> Bellum Judaicum (Josephus) </i> I. xx ...J. 2:4, section 2; Ant. 17:10, section 6; 12, section 6; 20:4, section 2), Herod's slave who tried to make himself king in the confusion consequent on the vac
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• The Temple
  ...] Ghost. &nbsp;1 Corinthians 6:19 . </p> <p> In &nbsp;Revelation 11:19 the temple of God is opened in heaven, in connection with which are the judgements tha ...the number the palm must be given to the [[Temple]] of Solomon, it was the Temple <i> par excellence </i> . </p>
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• Sanhedrin
  ...on]] des Judentums, 1903, p. 83). As a religious tribunal it outlasted the Temple and State of Judaea , existing in the shape of a body of academicians down ...sp; Acts 23:28 ). </p> <p> <strong> 4 </strong> . The Sanhedrin met in the Temple, in what was called the <em> Lishkath ha-Gazith </em> (the ‘Hall of hewn-
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• Money
  ...are. Accordingly it was usual for two persons to join forces in paying the Temple tax of a half-shekel by presenting a Phœnician tetra-drachm. This is ( ...ince the men who participated in the transaction continued to serve in the temple with no sense of impropriety. </p> <p> Samuel A. Meier </p> <p> <i> See als
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• Gerizim
  ...‘gods of their own’ which every nation made. In the days of Ezra, when the temple at [[Jerusalem]] was being rebuilt, the Samaritans, who are called ‘the a ...ding the so-called "twelve stones." On this platform perhaps the Samaritan temple stood. </p>
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• Laver
  ...17; &nbsp;2 Kings 25:13). No lavers are mentioned in the second or Herod's temple. Solomon's "molten sea" was made of the copper captured from [[Tibhath]] an ...t was used for the same purpose as the laver of the tabernacle; but in the temple there were also ten smaller lavers at which the sacrifices were washed. &nb
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• Herod'S Temple
  Herod'S Temple <ref name="term_33870" /> ...in all a square of more than 900 feet. It is argued by others that Herod's temple occupied a square of 600 feet at the south-west of the "enclosure." </p>
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• Samaritans
  ...hem, (the ancient [[Sichem]] or Naplouse,) Damascus, Cairo, &c. They had a temple, or chapel, on Mount Gerizim, where they performed their sacrifices. They h ...sacrificed at [[Passover]] . </p> <p> Toward the mountain, even after the temple on it had fallen, wherever they were, they directed their worship. To their
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• Pharisees
  ...urch from the State, taught a religion that was independent of priests and Temple, developed doctrines of immortality, resurrection, and judgment to come, th ...performance of its hallowed duties: their punctilious payment of tithes, (temple-offerings,) even of the most trifling things, &nbsp;Luke 18:12; &nbsp;Matth
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• Aristobulus
  ...aligula]] sent [[Petronius]] to [[Jerusalem]] to set up the statues in the Temple, Aristobulus joined in the remonstrance against the procedure (Josephus, ''
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• Claudius
  ...banon. He appointed Herod's brother to Chalcis and the presidency over the temple at Jerusalem. </p> <p> In Claudius' reign occurred the famine in Palestine ...to this latter also, after his brother's death, the presidency over the [[Temple]] at [[Jerusalem]] (Josephus, Ant. 20, 1, 3). Indeed, the Jews were general
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• Babel
  ...town. The structure may have been a fortress, though more likely it was a temple built on a series of stepped platforms, similar to the Sumerian ziggurats. ...e Chaldaean builder to whom belongs the credit of designing the Babylonian temple, with its rectangular base facing the four cardinal points, its receding st
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• Libraries
  ...aught in the Treasury, which in Herod's [[Temple]] was in the court of the temple proper - probably the porticos under the women's gallery, some of the adjoi
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• Jesus Christ (Part 2 Of 2)
  ...regard certain [[Galileans]] whom [[Pilate]] had slain in a tumult at the temple, and eighteen on whom the tower of [[Siloam]] had fallen, as sinners above
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• Caesarea Philippi
  ...us <i> Ant </i> . xv. x. 3). On the hill above, Herod built a white marble temple in honour of [[Augustus]] (Josephus <i> Ant </i> . xv. x. 3, <i> BJ </i> i. ...who then controlled the area, gave the territory to Herod the Great. After Herod's death, it passed to his son Philip who ruled there from 4 B.C. until his de
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• Peter
  ...sp;Acts 2:14 ff.), the immediate agent in healing the lame beggar at the [[Temple]] gate (&nbsp;Acts 3:1-10), and the principal defender of the new faith dur ...er not to "offend." i.e. give a handle of reproach, as if lie despised the temple and law, caused Peter the fisherman again to resume his occupation and brou
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• Architecture In The Biblical Period
  ...ove the ground and faced the harbor. [[A]] large court was in front of the temple at Samaria, and a broad staircase gave access to it. </p> <p> 2. Private St
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• Darius
  ...e ascended the throne. His curse (&nbsp;Ezra 6:12) on those who injure the temple answers to that on those who should injure the inscriptions at Behistun, an ...l inscription on the rocks at Behistun. He allowed the Jews to rebuild the Temple. The prophets Haggai and Zechariah encouraged the people to go on with the
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• Pinnacle
  ...e is still, therefore, a choice of views. On the one hand, the apex of the Temple proper would undoubtedly be the loftiest point of the whole group of buildi ...terux, "a wing"); (b) "anything like a wing, a turret, battlement," of the temple in Jerusalem, &nbsp;Matthew 4:5; &nbsp;Luke 4:9 (of the hieron, "the entire
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• Chronology Of The Old Testament
  ...d by the [[Egyptian]] inscriptions. From the time of the rebuilding of the Temple under Darius we are also in uncertainty, though this period does not bulk l ...easons: ( <i> a </i> ) This is in harmony with the time-reckoning from the Temple of Solomon back to the Exodus (&nbsp;1 Kings 6:1 ), and fully satisfies the
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• Candlestick
  ...ting their beams on mount [[Olivet]] and on Jerusalem. Jesus coming to the temple at daybreak (&nbsp;John 8:1-2), as they were extinguishing the artificial l ...as afterwards carried away by Titus to Rome, where it was deposited in the Temple of Peace. When Genseric plundered Rome, he is said to have carried it to [[
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• Galilee
  ...crifices.' Josephus, indeed, does not mention any Galileans slain in the [[Temple]] by Pilate; but the character which he gives that people sufficiently corr
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• Passover
  ...house speedily, speedily even in our days, rebuild it. O God, rebuild Thy Temple speedily!’ and in the aspiration repeated more than once, but especially ...f the year; and at the same time of the day, as the daily sacrifice at the Temple, the crucifixion beginning at the hour of the morning sacrifice, and ending
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• Antonia
  ..., for it is a much disputed question upon what part of the temple area the temple was built. There is a tower, <i> now </i> called Antonia, on the N.W. angle ...tle" from which soldiers came down to rescue Paul from the [[Jews]] in the temple; and from its stairs he addressed the multitude, &nbsp;Acts 21:31-40 . </p>
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• Trachonitis
  ...r of Trachonitis are the large ruins of Musmeih, which an inscription on a temple door identifies with Phocus (Phoeno) the old capital (Burckhardt, Trav. [[S
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• Antipas
  ...in a tumult there by the priests of ''A'' Esculapius, who had a celebrated temple in that city (Eusebius, ''Hist.'' &nbsp;Ecclesiastes 4:1-16; &nbsp;Ecclesia
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• Dates
  ...itation may be further justified by the fact that the destruction of the [[Temple]] established a new order of things not simply with reference to Judaism, b
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• Books Of Chronicles
  ...cles 18:1-21:17 ) </p> <p> E. God's revelation in mercy of the site of the Temple and the place of the altar of sacrifice (&nbsp;1 Chronicles 21:18-22:1 ) </ ...cler, however, his chief importance had to do with his construction of the temple in Jerusalem (2:1-7:22). Building programs and clever trading activities co
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• Sadducees
  ...p it, and anything that threatened to be a danger to their power or to the Temple cultus with which their power was bound up they strove to destroy. That any ...ered institutions of Judaism. With the destruction of the Jewish state and temple in a.d. 70, they passed into the pages of history. </p> <p> J. [[Julius]] S
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• Chronology Of The New Testament
  ...he [[Jews]] say that the Temple was 46 years in building, which, since the Temple was hardly completed at the outbreak of the War (Joseph. <em> Ant </em> . X
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• Veil
  ...acred head, and gave up the ghost, instantly, we are told, the vail of the temple was rent in twain, by some invisible hand, from the top to the bottom; thus ...e from forty years before the destruction of the Temple—namely this of the Temple-doors’ opening of themselves, and the Sanhedrin’s flitting from the roo
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• Nehemiah
  ...to their country fields. Nehemiah caused Judah to bring the tithes to the temple treasuries ''(In Which Malachi [[Supported]] Him, '' &nbsp;Malachi 3:8 '')' ...for us” (&nbsp; Nehemiah 4:20 NRSV). He had respect for the sabbath, the [[Temple]] and its institutions, the Levites, and tithing. </p> <p> Nehemiah was an
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• The Essenes
  ...iii , xi, 2, in which Judas, the Essene, is represented as teaching in the Temple. His objection that Josephus credits the Essenes with a belief in a paradis
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• Treasury (Of Temple)
  Treasury (Of Temple) <ref name="term_9050" /> ...s court was the ordinary scene of the Lord's ministry when teaching in the temple. See also [[Treasure]] , [[Treasurer]] , [[Treasury]] . </p>
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• Birth Of Christ
  ...us see, further, Zahn, Evangelium des Matthäus, p. 109; and Edersheim, The Temple at the Time of Jesus Christ, p. 35 f.] </p> <p> On the other hand, it is ve
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• Ark
  ...6:14-19; &nbsp;1 Chronicles 15:23-29). </p> <p> When [[Solomon]] built the temple in Jerusalem, he placed the ark in the Most [[Holy]] Place (&nbsp;1 Kings 8 ...ditions of the Gentile world, was prophetic; and was regarded as a kind of temple or residence of the deity. It comprehended all mankind, within the circle o
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• House
  ...rong> [[Folding]] doors </strong> are mentioned only in connexion with the Temple (&nbsp; 1 Kings 6:34 ). </p> <p> The <strong> threshold </strong> (&nbsp; J ...aving of the rooms </b> .-This is very seldom of wood (except in Solomon’s Temple, &nbsp;1 Kings 6:15; &nbsp;1 Kings 6:30, where the wood was overlaid with g
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• Feasts
  ...the Jews' destruction; the feast of [[Dedication]] the purification of the temple by the Maccabees, after its defilement by [[Antiochus]] Epiphanes. (See [[E ...those Jews who were in or near Jerusalem would naturally congregate in the Temple courts (cf. &nbsp;John 10:22 ff.), but none were in the habit of going up o
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• Apocalyptic Literature
  ...istic cosmogony. The date of composition cannot be later than a.d. 70. The temple was evidently still standing, and sacrifice was offered (59:2). But the Eth ...herefore, have been written much prior to the time of Herod, and, as the [[Temple]] is still standing, must have been written before a.d. 70. The author (or
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• Idolatry
  ...id actively resist Rome when [[Hadrian]] desecrated the site of the ruined Temple. </p> <p> <strong> 4. Teaching of the NT </strong> . As idolatry was thus n ...re]] was only to be looked for. After the death of [[Julius]] [[Caesar]] a temple in his honour was erected at [[Ephesus]] (29 b.c.), and it was only a step
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• Jewish. Calendar
  ...''(Meill. Taanith).'' </p> <p> '''23.''' '''''—''''' The dedication of the temple of [[Zerubbabel]] (&nbsp;Ezra 6:16). The day is not known, so some put it o
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• Army
  ...aesarea for the purpose of keeping order among the pilgrims in the crowded Temple precincts, as the Turkish soldiers now do at [[Easter]] among the [[Christi ...elation 9:16; &nbsp;19:14,19 (twice); (b) "a company of soldiers," such as Herod's bodyguard, &nbsp; Luke 23:11 (RV, "soldiers") or the soldiers of a garrison
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• The Middle Wall Of Partition
  ...not more than some 10 years, for it was thrown down in the burning of the temple by the Roman army. And out of those ruins a fragment has been excavated in
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• Messiah
  ...the day of <i> Ta’eb </i> it was believed that the sacred vessels of the [[Temple]] would reappear which had been concealed on Mount Gerizim,§ [Note: Bousse ...at his people’s enemies, and establish a great empire with its capital and temple at Jerusalem. Thereafter some one of the various transcendental enemies of
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• Paul
  ...st him. There was instantly a great commotion; Paul was dragged out of the Temple, the doors of which were immediately shut, and the people having him in the ...ge the multitude against St. Paul; they seized him, dragged him out of the temple, beat him, and were upon the point of putting him to death, when he was res
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• Ashkelon
  ...hristian]] circles that Herod the Great was born in Ashkelon, the son of a temple slave of Apollo. Herod did have family and friends there and gave the city ...them of Timhath who expounded his riddle (&nbsp;Judges 14:19). Later, the temple and lake of Derceto (with a female head and bust and fish's fail, like Dago
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• Chronology Of The Biblical Period
  ...Testament all occurred before the fall of Jerusalem and destruction of the Temple in [[A.D.]] 70. </p> <p> Joel [[F.]] Drinkard, Jr. </p>
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• New Testament
  ...im. &nbsp;John 11:54 </p> <p> 29 Jesus' entry into Jerusalem. Cleanses the temple &nbsp;Mark 11:1-18 </p> <p> The [[Greeks]] visit Jesus. Voice from heaven. ...5); though according to another account it was found in the ruins of the [[Temple]] when Julian attempted to rebuild it (Philostorg. 7:14). A similar belief
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• Prayer
  ...ontrast.] &nbsp; 1 Kings 8:63 ) <em> sacrifice </em> is not mentioned! The Temple is a house of prayer); (4) <em> Elijah’s intercession </em> (&nbsp; 1 Kin ...n by the Jews, &nbsp;Exodus 29:43 . &nbsp;Luke 1:10 . It was a part of the temple service, Is. 56: 7. &nbsp;1 Kings 8:59 . Jesus Christ recommended it both b
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• Felix
  ...om Claudius Lysias to Felix at Caesarea, where he was at first confined in Herod's judgment-hall till his accusers came. They arrived. [[Tertullus]] appeared ...om Claudius Lysias to Felix at Caesarea, where he was at first confined in Herod's judgment-hall till his accusers came. They arrived. Tertullus appeared as t
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• Chronology
  ...odus is but four years earlier than Hales's, and the interval to Solomon's temple foundation is 642, only four more than the 638 obtained above by Bible calc ...appointed by Rome king of Judaea. </p> <p> 20 Herod begins to rebuild the temple </p> <p> 6 Birth of John the Baptist. </p> <p> 5 Birth of Christ. (See NEW
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• The Book Of Zechariah
  ...tual in Babylon, and who undervalued the humble beginnings of the restored temple, in contrast with the gorgeous pomp of the Babylonian temples. As the work
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• Priest
  .... From a priest Titus received the lamps, gems, and costly garments of the temple. The rabbis rose as the priests went down. The only distinction that now th ...next to attending upon the sacrifices and the service of the tabernacle or temple, was the instruction of the people and the deciding controversies, distingu
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• Parbar
  ...ersion.] ‘precincts’) of &nbsp; 2 Kings 23:11 and applied to part of the [[Temple]] buildings lying on the W., where two [[Levites]] were stationed (&nbsp; 1 ...Josephus]] mentions a "suburb" in the valley separating the W. wall of the temple from the city opposite, i.e. the S. end of the Tyroproeon valley, which lie
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• Tyre
  ...Israel. But, whereas Hiram feared the God of Israel and helped forward His temple, "iniquity" even pride was found in Tyre. Therefore, God "cast her to the g ...says, that Tyre was built not above two hundred and forty years before the temple of Solomon; which would be in A.M. 2760, two hundred years after Joshua. Ty
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• Israel
  ...1 Kings 14:25 ) and compelled Rehoboam to pay a tribute which stripped the Temple of much of its golden treasure and ornamentation. It appears from the Egypt ..., after Jesus ascended to reign over the kingdom, the Israelite community, temple, and sacrificial system were removed. The promise God made to Adam and Eve,
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• Joppa
  ...port that received cedar logs from Lebanon, now for the rebuilding of the Temple under the leadership of Zerubbabel. </p> <p> In 164 B.C. more than 200 Jewi ...of pilgrims. Here the materials for building both the first and the second temple, sent from [[Lebanon]] and Tyre, were landed, &nbsp;2 Chronicles 3:16 &nbsp
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• Ashdod
  ...centuries B.C. The Iron Age showed a flourishing community, and an Iron II temple yielded many cultic artifacts. </p> <p> [[George]] W. Knight </p> ...the Philistines captured Israel’s ark of the covenant and placed it in the temple, the god Dagon fell down in front of the ark and broke in pieces (&nbsp;1 S
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• Archaeology And Biblical Study
  ...ehind. In Jerusalem the thirty-five acre platform on which Herod built his Temple still stands, and parts of the tower of David at the [[Citadel]] are Herodi
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• Building
  ...ncoln, <i> [[Paradise]] Now and Not Yet </i> ; R. J. McKelvey, <i> The New Temple: The Church in the New Testament </i> ; P. S. Minear, <i> Images of the Chu ...s destined to be ‘fitly framed together.’ Each serves to make up the ideal temple of God, which is being built for ever. Each is a true part of that mystical
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• Political Conditions
  ...of the armed retinue of the native dignitaries (&nbsp;Matthew 26:47). The Temple police were under the command of a captain of high rank, who probably contr
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• Josephus
  ...ill-fortune that beset the Jews): the first deals with the outrage in the Temple of [[Isis]] in Rome, where the priests lent themselves to a trick by which ...er in private life is given in &nbsp;2 Kings 4:10. The "bedchamber" in the Temple where [[Joash]] was hidden was probably a store-chamber for keeping beds, n
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• Persecution
  ...weh came under the same condemnation, e.g. Jesus’ alleged reference to the Temple (&nbsp;Mark 14:58, &nbsp;Acts 6:13). His violation of the sacredness of the ...e force or violence, except once; and that was to drive bad men out of the temple, and not to drive them in." We know the origin of it to be from the prince
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• Book Of. Zechariah
  ...nbsp;Zechariah 1:7; &nbsp;Zechariah 7:1) and the constant reference to the Temple may be explained on the ground that the prophet here busies himself with th
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• The Feast Of The Dedication
  ...to the Feast of the [[Dedication]] instituted by Judas Maccabaeus. (See [[Temple]]). </p> <p> Literature. '''''—''''' Maimonides, [[Mishna]] Torah, or Yad
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• Gate
  ...ed with sackcloth" (&nbsp;Esther 4:2). "The [[Beautiful]] Gate" of Herod's temple (&nbsp;Acts 3:2) was the outer one, made of [[Corinthian]] brass, surpassin ...te type ( <i> Hastings’ Single-vol. Dictionary of the Bible </i> , article‘Temple’). </p> <p> W. Cruickshank. </p>
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• Pontius Pilate
  ..., and was now residing, perhaps, in the castle of Antonia, or it may be in Herod's palace. [[Pilate]] came forth from his palace and met the deputation from t ...ume 9 of the same series err, <i> New Testament Apocryphal Writings </i> ("Temple Bible Series"), gives the text of the Gospel of [[Nicodemus]] and the Gospe
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• Samaritan
  ...em. There they sacrificed a passover. Towards the mountain, even after the temple on it had fallen, wherever they were, they directed their worship. To their
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• Antichrist
  ...ly resembling Christ or Messiah (&nbsp;Revelation 13:11); sitting in God's temple as God, apparently restored Israel's persecutor, whence the sacred [[Hebrew ...ified with the false Jewish Messiah, who was to work miracles, rebuild the Temple, and establish a great empire with demons as his agents. Under the inspirat
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• Jehoiakim
  ...e previous twenty-three years. After his secretary Baruch read them in the temple, the city leaders became so disturbed that they read them to Jehoiakim. The ...s, Jeremiah caused his prophecies to be read by Baruch in the court of the temple. Jehoiakim, hearing of this, had them also read in the royal palace before
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• City
  ...ed the very conception of [[Judaism]] as a national religion, for in the [[Temple]] of Jerusalem alone could God be worshipped with the rites He had Himself ...uke 2:4 ). </p> <p> Jerusalem is called the Holy City, the holiness of the temple being regarded as extending in some measure over the whole city (&nbsp;Nehe
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• Eclipse
  ...hias and his accomplices. This is of great importance in the chronology of Herod's reign, as it immediately preceded his own death. It has been calculated as
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• Nebuchadnezzar
  ...cubits (50 ft.). Herodotus, i. 183, similarly mentions Belus' image in the temple at Babylon as 40 ft. high. Oppert found in the [[Dura]] (Dowair) plain the ...actually on the site of the tower of Babel mentioned in the Bible, and the temple of Belus described by Herodotus, this building would seem to have been erec
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• Medicine
  ...hild was boy or girl, during which period she was not allowed to enter the Temple. The reason for the different lengths of the two periods was that the <em> ...s resources by its records-or relics; but there is some doubt whether this temple was of such high antiquity. Solomon, however, we cannot doubt, would have t
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• Commerce
  ...eft their money with them. A portion of the vast sums that came into the [[Temple]] treasury in Jerusalem as taxes each year (&nbsp;Matthew 17:24 ) were prob ...the principal city. Tyre was built two hundred and forty years before the temple of Solomon, or twelve hundred and fifty-one before Christ. The Phenicians h
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• Government
  ...rwin-White, <i> Roman Society and Roman Law in the New Testament </i> ; W. Temple, <i> [[Citizen]] and Churchman </i> . </p> ...cation (&nbsp; 1 Kings 21:1-29 ), and. in an emergency, of stripping the [[Temple]] (&nbsp; 2 Kings 18:15 ). In time of peace the main function of the king i
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• Guard
  ...V, "... a watch," "(setting a) watch," and "... the watch." This was the [[Temple]] guard, stationed under a Roman officer in the tower of Antonia, and havin ...the "lodges" or "little chambers" were rooms for the accommodation of the temple guard (&nbsp;Ezekiel 40:7 , &nbsp;Ezekiel 40:10 , &nbsp;Ezekiel 40:21 , &nb
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• Porch
  ...ther "porches" existent in the time of Christ were almost certainly due to Herod's restoration. Cp. [[Stoics]] (&nbsp; Acts 17:18 ), "philosophers of the porc ...trong> 1 </strong> ( <em> a </em> ), where the triple colonnade of Herod’s temple the ‘Royal Porch’ of [[Josephus]] is also discussed. For details see <e
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• Sacerdotal Order
  ...sive priesthood, as a distinct caste, was confirmed by the building of the Temple, and their influence may have been increased by being concentrated within t
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• Cyrus
  ...ho announces the restoration of Israel, and the rebuilding of the city and temple of Jerusalem, through Cyrus his "shepherd" and his "anointed" messenger. Ch ...of the treasury (&nbsp;Ezra 1:7-11; &nbsp;Ezra 6:5), the allowance of the temple rebuilding expenses out of the royal revenue (&nbsp;Ezra 6:4), and the char
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• Philistines
  ...(cf. Barton, <em> Semit. Or </em> . 229 ff.). There was also at Ashkelon a temple of Ashtart (Herod. l. 105). If their religion was Semitic, so also were pro ...'''' </i> ) means "a swift one" or "pursuer." In the time of [[Joash]] the temple-guards are called <i> ''''' kārı̄ ''''' </i> (&nbsp; 2 Kings 11:4 , &nbs
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• Tombs
  ...erns (Josephus B. J. 5:22; 5:4, section 2). </p> <p> This tomb was N.W. of Herod's, which was on the N. of the city. Tombs used to be whitewashed yearly on th
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• Babylonia
  ...ssels. The spirit manifested in the proclamation for the rebuilding of the temple (&nbsp;Ezra 1:1 , &nbsp;Ezra 1:4 ) seems also to have been in accordance wi ...t was encumbered (Strabo, 16:1, 5). His designs for the restoration of the temple and the general embellishment of the city were frustrated by his untimely d
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• Isaiah
  ...eunuchs (&nbsp;Isaiah 56:3-7 ), they would no longer be excluded from the Temple worship. This injected grace and hope into the law of &nbsp;Deuteronomy 23: ...which assign him the kingdoms from Jehovah and the duty of rebuilding His temple. Probably he adopted from them his historical name Cyrus ( '''''Κoresh''''
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• Asmoneans
  ...forever estranging the Pharisaic party from Rome. But he did not spoil the temple, and appointed Hyrcanus high priest. This event marks the collapse of the M
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• Acts Of The Apostles
  ...idents of the ‘Common Council’ of the province in cities where there was a temple of Rome and the Emperor; they superintended the worship of the Emperor. The ...on of persecution, owing to Caligula's attempt to set up his statue in the temple. Next he was brought to Tarsus, to escape from Grecian conspirators in Jeru
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• Hair
  ...;Psalm 133:2 ). Such distinction we find also in Egypt, where the walls of temple laboratories were inscribed with extensive recipes of such holy oils, while ...eir inauguration shaved off all their hair, and when on actual duty at the temple, were in the habit, it is said, of cutting it every fortnight. The only exc
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• Court Of The Sanctuary; Tabernacle; Temple
  ...round the whole "court of the priests," inclusive of altar and temple (see Temple; and compare G. A. Smith, <i> Jerusalem </i> , II, 506-9, with the reconstr ...t+of+the+sanctuary;+tabernacle;+temple Court Of The Sanctuary; Tabernacle; Temple from International Standard Bible Encyclopedia]</ref>
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• Games
  ...were held in honour of Olympian [[Zeus]] in connexion with the magnificent temple in [[Olympia]] in Elis; the Isthmian games on the Isthmus of [[Corinth]] in
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• Linen
  ...re it loosely over the close fitting tunic (&nbsp;1 Chronicles 15:27). The temple veil was of it, naturally as made by Tyrians (&nbsp;2 Chronicles 3:14; &nbs ...probably worn over the linen, and left outside when the priests entered a temple. The embalmed bodies of men and animals were wrapped in strips of linen. No
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• Flavius Josephus
  ...re 79, as it was presented to Vespasian. Because of the reference to the [[Temple]] of Peace as finished ( <em> BJ </em> VII. v. 7), it must have been writte ...of Herod the Great; (d) Xv-Xvii , the reign of Herod; (e) Xviii-Xx , from Herod's death till the War of 66. While it cannot be called an apology for the Jews
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• Marble
  ...or possibly white marble from Arabia. Herod employed Parian marble in the temple, and marble columns still exist in great abundance at Jerusalem. <div> <p> ...thus have been limestone. There can be no doubt that Herod, both in the [[Temple]] and elsewhere, employed Parian or other marble. The marble pillars and te
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• Roman Empire
  ...:4) when Jesus came. The universal peace within the empire, so that Janus' temple was shut; the military roads constructed; piracy put clown; commerce unitin
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• Offering
  ...” which was to be provided for the burning of the sacrifices in the Second Temple. [[Lots]] were to be cast among the people, priests, and Levites to determi ...ey might make presents of common bread to the priests and ministers of the temple. Honey was never offered with the sacrifices, but it might be presented alo
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• Cambyses
  ...seven years and five months which he reigned, the building of the city and temple was suspended. See [[Ahasuerus]] . </p> ...emies of the [[Jews]] for the purpose of frustrating the rebuilding of the Temple, B.C. 529. [[Josephus]] also calls this monarch ''Cambyses, The Son Of Cyru
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• Marriage
  ...arital sex, promiscuity, and perversion of the sexual act. The body is the temple of the Holy Spirit (&nbsp;1 Corinthians 6:19 ), so believers should be holy ...s, the ceremonies connected with the celebration of the festivals in the [[Temple]] afforded an excellent opportunity, as may be gathered from the following
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• Genealogy
  ...rty years is a generation, and 40×12 = 480 years to the building of the [[Temple]] (&nbsp; 1 Kings 6:1 ), the other 11 priests filling up the period till th ...ent from the prophet Samuel, and knows the melodies which were sung in the Temple during its existence" (ib. page 100, etc.). He also mentions descendants of
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• Pharisee
  ...th which they sacrificed themselves amid their falling palaces and burning Temple, it is impossible not to recognise the last convulsive outburst of Pharisai
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• Samson
  ...Old [[Testament]] being &nbsp;Lamentations 4:7. </p> <p> '''(3)''' Dagon's temple is alluded to under both (&nbsp;1 Samuel 5:2; &nbsp;Judges 16:23). </p> <p> ...and made him grind in the prison. Then, they held a great festival in the temple of Dagon, to celebrate their victory over Samson. </p> <p> They brought for
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• Treasury
  ...f blood.’ In Josephus ( <i> BJ </i> ii. ix. 4) the word is used not of the Temple treasury, but of the treasures it contained. Herod is said to have created ...kor-ban-as' </i> ) </div> <p> signifying "the place of gifts," denoted the Temple "treasury," &nbsp;Matthew 27:6 . See Corban. </p>
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• The Golden Candlestick
  ...<i> [[Coins]] of the [[Jews]] </i> , 102). For literature see Tabernacle; Temple . </p>
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• Judaea
  ...he several tribes, joined forces with the men of Judah in rebuilding the [[Temple]] and its defences; and from this date, except on the lists of the genealog
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• Judæa
  ...he several tribes, joined forces with the men of Judah in rebuilding the [[Temple]] and its defences; and from this date, except on the lists of the genealog
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• Fire
  ...truction of the temple, it was extinguished; and in the time of the second temple, nothing was made use of for all their burnt offerings but common fire only ...ijah, &nbsp;1 Kings 18:38; and at the dedication of the tabernacle and the temple, &nbsp;Leviticus 9:24 &nbsp; 2 Chronicles 7:1 . This sacred fire was preser
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• Darius Hystaspis
  ...ing's knowledge he confirmed the decree of Cyrus by a new edict, and the [[Temple]] was finished in four years (B.C. 516; &nbsp;Ezra 6:15), though it was app
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• Sanhedrim
  ...ncement with the rabbins, but he fixes its termination at the beginning of Herod's reign. [[Basnage]] places it under [[Judas]] Maccabaeus and his brother Jon ...by the Romans. Its usual place of meeting was within the precincts of the temple, in the hall "Gazith," but it sometimes met also in the house of the high p
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• Dedication
  ...n as the Feast of [[Dedication]] celebrated the rededication of the Jewish temple after the defilement by [[Antiochus]] [[Epiphanes]] in the second century B ...ation" was a yearly commemoration of the cleansing and rededication of the temple, when polluted by Antiochus Epiphanes, &nbsp;John 10:22 . </p>
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• Holy Of Holies
  <p> <i> See </i> [[Tabernacle]]; [[Temple]] </p> ...e , [[Herod]] 'S). The holiest place continued empty. In the spoils of the temple depicted on the [[Arch]] of Titus there is no representation of the Ark of
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• Edom
  ...] ("blessing") after the victory. Psalm 48 was sung "in the midst of God's temple" (&nbsp;Psalms 48:9); &nbsp;Psalms 48:7 alludes to Jehoshaphat's chastiseme ...2 ). Edomites seem not to have been barred from worship in the Jerusalem [[Temple]] with the same strictness as the Ammonites and Moabites (&nbsp;Deuteronomy
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• Idol
  ...ens (not that its top should reach heaven, &nbsp;Genesis 11:4), the common temple and idolatrous center of union. The dispersion defeated the purpose of the .... When the process of adorning the image was completed, it was placed in a temple or shrine appointed for it. &nbsp;Jeremiah 12:1; &nbsp;Jeremiah 19:1. &nbsp
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• Lysanias
  ...eath of the first Lysanias, a certain Nymphaeus built a road and erected a temple, and left an account of these acts in an extant inscription ( <i> CIG </i> ...'''' , and Pococke also found an inscription on the remains of a [[Doric]] temple, called Nebi Abel, the ancient Abila, fifteen English miles from Damascus,
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• Augustus
  ...his reign are the Portus Iulius (37 b.c.), the Templum Diui Iuli (29), the temple of [[Apollo]] on the [[Palatine]] Hill, equipped with public libraries of G ...d, taken into favor and confirmed, nay even increased, in his power. After Herod's death, in A.D. 4, Augustus divided his dominions, almost exactly according
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• Abilene
  ...orus only had the farming of it, this region never could have descended to Herod's heirs, and therefore properly did not belong to Philip's tetrarchy. The sam ...places the tomb of Abel in a neighboring height where there are ruins of a temple. Josephus calls this Abila, <i> ''''' hē Lusanı́ou ''''' </i> , literall
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• Corban
  ...er to believe that He was thinking of <i> bonâ fide </i> vows, made to the Temple, hastily, perhaps angrily, without sufficient regard to the claims of aged ...is, it is the Lord's. I have devoted all I can spare to the service of the temple—I cannot help you." </p> <p> Blessed Lord! how sweetly doth thy gosp
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• Persia
  ...rebuilding the temple and the city (&nbsp;Ezra 1:1-4). They completed the temple in 516 BC, in the reign of a later Emperor, [[Darius]] (&nbsp;Ezra 6:14-15) ...> He reverted to Cyrus' policy, by grant enabling the Jews to complete the temple in his sixth year (&nbsp;Ezra 6:1-15). Xerxes (Ahasuerus) his son held the
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• Holiness
  ...f the parents of Jesus, when they presented their child to the Lord in the temple, was a recognition of the fact that every firstborn son was holy as belongi ..."he saw no temple there, for the Lord God Almighty, and the Lamb, are the temple of it." (&nbsp;Revelation 21:22) </p>
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• Golgotha
  ...a part of the outer ramparts on the north-east, with the north wall of the temple area stretching from it to the east and the second city wall to the north-w ...traditional site preponderate; the nearness of the assumed site to that of Herod's palace is important. (But (See [[Jerusalem]] ,) The explorations of Capt. [
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• Publican
  ...t of justice on any trial; nor would they accept of their offerings in the temple. </p> <p> It appears by the [[Gospel]] that there were many publicans in Ju ...rderers, thieves and publicans (Nedar 3:4); the synagogue alms box and the temple '''''Corban''''' must not receive their alms (Baba [[Kama]] 10:1); it was n
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• Birth
  ...ark (&nbsp;Mark 6:21), for it proves that birthday feasts were observed in Herod's family, and that officers of the government customarily shared in them. </p ...doubled. At the expiration of this period she went into the tabernacle or temple, and presented a yearling lamb, or, if she was poor, two turtle-doves and t
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• Cæsar
  ...arties were heard by the emperor in an assembly that met in the celebrated temple of Apollo, behind his own house on the Palatine. The imperial verdict, anno
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• Caesar
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• Time
  ...ot so much to give the exact time as to account for Jesus’ walking ‘in the temple in Solomon’s porch.’ Similarly the Feast of [[Tabernacles]] (σκηνο ...&nbsp; Galatians 3:17 ), and the commencement of the building of Solomon’s Temple is dated 480 years after the Exodus. The chronology of the two kingdoms is
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• Sun
  ...een the porch and the altar; the worshippers turned their backs upon the [[Temple]] itself, and worshipped the sun towards the east. [[Certain]] places where ...&nbsp;2 Kings 23:11 '', Not "Suburbs")'' at the western side of the outer temple court. An insult to the only true God, in His own house! Spiritually, God's
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• Artaxerxes
  ...n. The sympathy of [[Cyrus]] and Cambyses with the Jews in restoring their temple was to him just the reason for prohibiting it. In his decree (&nbsp;Ezra 4: ...ck the people into their own country, and permitting them to rebuild their temple. But the truth of this story is doubtful; and were it true, the interferenc
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• Pharaoh
  ...arriage took place, not later than the eleventh year of the king, when the Temple was finished, having been commenced in the year that the Pharaoh led an exp ...3:1, consequently before the eleventh year of his reign, in which year the temple was finished. &nbsp;1 Kings 6:37-38. This Pharaoh afterward made an expedit
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• Portico; Solomon'S Porch
  ...compare Josephus, <i> Ant. </i> , XV, xi, 3; <i> BJ </i> , V, v, and see [[Temple]] , [[Herod]] 'S). The portico was the scene of Christ's teaching at the Fe
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• The Beautiful Gate
  ...question open (thus G. A. Smith, <i> [[Jerusalem]] </i> , II, 212). See [[Temple]] , [[Herod]] 'S. The gate itself was of unusual size and splendor. It rece
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• East Gate
  ...ple, which followed those above mentioned, was that "Beautiful Gate of the temple" where the miracle of the healing of the lame man was performed (&nbsp;Acts
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• Dispersed
  ...making proselytes. They must soon have risen to prosperity, for the yearly Temple contributions (Philo, Opp. 2:568) of the [[Italian]] Jews (Cicero, Flacc. 2
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• Hour
  ...e hand, may I, as he did, leap up and stand, and with Jesus enter into his temple walking, and leaping, and praising God. (&nbsp;Acts 3:1-26) </p> ...ayer the old division of the day into four portions was continued in the [[Temple]] service. As we see from &nbsp;Acts 2:15; &nbsp;Acts 3:1; &nbsp;Acts 10:9.
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• Kingdom Of Judah
  ...ower of the prophets rose between this time and the building of the second temple. In northern Israel they were the only witnesses for God in the face of the ...f the kingdom of Israel till its final overthrow in the destruction of the temple (B.C. 588) by Nebuzar-adan, who was captain of Nebuchadnezzar's body-guard
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• Sardis
  ...,000; and of two churches, the latter constructed of fragments of Cybele's temple. Now ''Sart'' . </p> <p> Famed for the golden sands of Pactolus, and as a c ..., from the time of the invasion of Asia by Alexander. </p> <p> The massive temple of [[Cybele]] still bears witness, in its fragmentary remains, to the wealt
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• Prison
  ...nd out of prison at subsequent dates. (1) As the result of the riot in the Temple, set on foot by the fanatical [[Jews]] of Asia, he was consigned for a time
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• Gadara
  ...Ḍer‛ah ''''' </i> . The ruins include those of two theaters, a basilica, a temple, and many important buildings, telling of a once great and splendid city. A ...tals still remaining. Among the ruins Buckingham found a theater, an Ionic temple, a second theater, besides traces and remnants of streets and houses. The p
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• Tithe
  ...oduce remaining after the first tithe, to be expended at the tabernacle or temple in entertaining the Levites, his own family, etc., changing it first into m ...of his property (1) one tithe for the Levites; (2) one for the use of the temple and the great feasts; and (3) one for the poor of the land. </p>
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• City Of Samaria
  ...e revealed. The statue, somewhat mutilated, is also to be seen. Another of Herod's temples West of the present village was cleared out by the same explorers.
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• Augustus Caesar
  ...ed in power; Herod thereby became attached to his dynasty, and built him a temple of marble near the sources of the Jordan. Augustus [[Caesar]] died at Nola ...ominions. Herod gave unreserved allegiance to Augustus, and built a marble temple to his honour at [[Caesarea]] Philippi. The emperor died A.D. 14. The Lord
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• Hebrew Tax
  ...f a special poll-tax of the third part of a shekel for the services of the Temple (&nbsp;Nehemiah 10:32). What could be done to mitigate the evil was done by
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• Mockery
  ...and therefore His triumphal entry and His attack on the desecration of the Temple could have been no part of the programme of a Purim festival. There would h
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• Pi-Beseth
  ...ed <em> Tell Basta </em> , lying near Zagazig, in the E. of the Delta. The temple described by [[Herodotus]] was excavated by Naville, yielding monuments of ...e goddess Bubastis, who was compared to the Diana of Southern Europe. This temple was annually visited by immense multitudes. The ruins of Pi-beseth, on the
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• Bethlehem
  ...o [[Adonis]] to be planted over the grotto of the Nativity, as he caused a temple to [[Venus]] to be erected over the site of the sepulchre of our Lord. [[Or ...&nbsp;Luke 2:4 , &nbsp;Luke 2:25 ) in consequence of which event occurred Herod's "massacre of the innocents" (&nbsp;Matthew 2:8 , 26). Inasmuch as Hadrian d
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• Earthquake
  ...forty years before the destruction of [[Jerusalem]] the heavy gates of the temple were mysteriously flung open about midnight at the Passover; but it would s ...phus (Ant. ix. 10,4) states that this happened when the king went into the temple and was struck with leprosy. &nbsp;2 Chronicles 26:16-21 . </p> <p> There w
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• Eusebius Of Caesarea
  ...of Cyrus, when an altar was set up at Jerusalem and the foundations of the temple laid. In the tables Eusebius gives an alternative for this period, viz. fro
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• Damascus
  ...s only diverted from [[Jerusalem]] by [[Jehoash]] giving the royal and the temple treasures (&nbsp;2 Kings 12:17-18). (See [[Hazael]] .) </p> <p> Benhadad hi ...by Metellus, the Roman general. It was a city of the Decapolis. The great temple of the city was by one of the early [[Christian]] emperors probably Theodos
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• Cyprus
  ...xury and debauchery. Their principal deity was Venus, who had a celebrated temple at Paphos. The island was extremely fertile, and abounded in wine, oil, hon
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• Cistern
  ...deep that he was let down by cords (&nbsp;Jeremiah 38:6), said to be near "Herod's gate." [[Cisterns]] yield only a limited supply of water, not an everflowin ...:6). To this prison tradition has assigned a locality near the gate called Herod's gate (Hasselquist, p. 140; Maundrell, Bohn's ed. of ''Early Travels,'' p. 4
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• Day Of Atonement
  ...this ritual with this ark and on this to base the atonement. In the second temple, as is well known, the incense pan was placed on the "foundation stone" in ...ncer, ''De Legibus Hebrcebrum Ritualibus,'' lib. 3, diss. 8; Lightfoot's ''Temple Service,'' c. 15; Buxtorf, ''Synagoga Judaica,'' cap. 20; Ugolini ''Thesaur
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• Gold
  ...one, "in whom all the building fitly framed together, groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord." (&nbsp;Ephesians 2:20-21) </p> <p> It is blessed to behold al ...ets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold …” (Gen. 24:22). Solomon’s temple was adorned with “gold” (1 Kings 6:20-28). </p> <p> Gold was used as mo
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• Calah
  ...s king. (Both these are now in the British Museum.) The remains of another temple were found to the East of this, and there are traces of further buildings a
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• Judgment-Hall
  ...n the ‘Hall of [[Hewn]] Stone’ on the south side of the great court of the Temple. In Rome, too, the Imperial Age saw the law-courts transferred to <i> basib ...ination room. In like manner, when [[Felix]] 'commanded Paul to be kept in Herod's praetorium' , the words apply not only to the whole palace originally built
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• Tax; Taxing
  ...p> Artaxerxes, in addition to his generous gifts, exempted the priests and temple-servants from all taxation (&nbsp;Ezra 7:24 ). In the days of Nehemiah a se
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• Holy Place
  ...;37:17-25&nbsp;Hebrews 9:2&nbsp;Exodus 25:23-29 <p> The arrangement of the temple (q.v.) was the same in this respect. In it the walls of hewn stone were wai <p> <i> See </i> [[Tabernacle]]; [[Temple]] </p>
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• Worshipper
  ...oin is extant inscribed with Neocoron Ephesion, and on the reverse Diana's temple (Mionnet Inset. 3:9; Eckhel Doctr. Vet. Num. 2:520. (See [[Religion]] .) [[ ..."Temple-Keeper".'' The '''neocoros''' was originally ''An Attendant In A [[Temple]] Probably Intrusted With Its Charge'' . The term '''neocoros''' became, th
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• Police
  ...s detached by [[Pilate]] at the request of the Sanhedrin, or a band of the Temple <i> gendarmerie </i> . Pilate’s words, ἔχετε κουστωδίαν (
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• Canaan
  ...[[Judea]] being finally subdued and laid waste by Nebuchadnezzar, and the temple burned B.C. 588. [[Idumea]] was conquered a few years after. From this peri ...latter name the whole country retained during the existence of the second temple, and under the dominion of the Romans. (6.) "The Holy Land." This name appe
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• Coins
  ...very male Jew was required to pay an annual head tax of half shekel to the Temple treasury (&nbsp;Exodus 30:13 ). At the Feast of the [[Passover]] pilgrims w ...thew 17:27) was the approximate equal of the Jewish shekel, which paid the temple tax for two people (&nbsp;Exodus 30:13; &nbsp;Matthew 17:24-27). Originally
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• Cross
  ...Christian converts in the army of Theodosius, when they remarked it on the temple of Serapis, according to the story mentioned in Suidas. The same symbol has ...een the symbol of divinity and eternal life, and to have been found in the temple of Serapis. It is known either in the form of the Greek cross or in the for
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• Throne
  ...” (1 Kings 22:19). Isaiah received a vision of God’s glory revealed in the temple (Isa. 6:1). The presence of the Lord in [[Jerusalem]] also gave rise to the ...as the chief seat of Caesar-worship, and the first city in Asia to erect a temple to Augustus; others connect it with the worship of aesculapius, for which t
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• John The Apostle
  ...ith Peter on three occasions. One was the healing of the lame man by the [[Temple]] gate (&nbsp;Acts 3:4 ). The next was their appearance before the [[Sanhed ...) represents the two associated as in the Gospels; together they enter the temple and meet the impotent man at the [[Beautiful]] gate; together they witness
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• Book Of Tobit
  ...Kings 25:10), was first interdicted shortly before the destruction of the Temple by Titus is based upon restricting the term '''''Ἄρτος''''' to ''Actu ...er of the Northern Kingdom, is represented as worshipping at the Jerusalem temple and observing the feasts there (1:4-7) makes it probable that the author wa
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• Targum
  ...tom began: since this learned scribe, reading the law to the people in the temple, explained it, with the other priests that were with him, to make it unders ...trace of hostility to the Romans nor of opposition to Christianity. The [[Temple]] is regarded as still standing, the festive days are still celebrated, the
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• Nazarite
  ...s vow, otherwise he would have offered his hair with the sacrifices at the temple door; but a modified Nazarite vow, usual then in respect to deliverances fr ...four men, and that his vow would end with theirs. Nazarites retired to the temple during the last period of seven days, because they could be secure there ag
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• Census
  ...ed the place as "the house of God," even before the actual building of the temple (compare &nbsp;1 Chronicles 22:1-2 with &nbsp;Genesis 28:17-19). </p> <p> P
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• Scribes
  ...and the pupils on the ground. In Jerusalem, lectures were delivered in the Temple, somewhere in the outer court. The ‘houses of teaching’ were distinct f ...:3; &nbsp;Deuteronomy 33:3; &nbsp;2 Kings 4:38); often in a chamber of the temple (&nbsp;Luke 2:46), the pupil submitting cases and asking questions, e.g. &n
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• Belshazzar
  ...heinous offence was the profanation of the sacred vessels belonging to the temple of Jerusalem, which his wise grandfather, and even his foolish father Evil ...the cup overflow in vengeance, was his profaning the vessels of Jehovah's temple to be the instrument of revelry to himself, his princes, wives, and concubi
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• Samos
  ...in St. Paul’s time. Situated in the S.E. of the island, it had the largest temple [[Herodotus]] ever saw (iii. 60), and disputed with [[Smyrna]] and [[Ephesu ...The island was devoted to the worship of Juno, who had there a magnificent temple, fragments of which still exist. It was also celebrated for its valuable po
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• Antioch
  ...ablished a priesthood of Mçn Arcaeus, having attached to it a multitude of temple slaves and tracts of sacred territory. It was abolished after the death of ...for Antioch the title ‘Tetrapolis.’ Here he erected a [[Senate]] House, a temple to [[Jupiter]] [[Capitolinus]] on one of the eminences of Mt. Silpius, and
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• Rome And The Roman Empire
  ...eath. John may refer to emperor worship in Pergamum, where the first Asian temple to a Roman emperor was erected, in his references to the place “where Sat
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• Joseph
  ...and they turned back to Jerusalem. After three days they found Him in the temple among the doctors, and they were amazed. Mary’s words, ‘Son, why hast t
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• Festus
  ...em, which enabled him to observe from his dining-hall what was done in the Temple. [[Thereupon]] ‘the chief men of Jerusalem’ erected a wall to obstruct ..., as he reclined at his meals, he commanded a view of what was done in the Temple. The priests, being displeased, erected a wall so as to exclude the monarch
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• Bread
  ...occurrences are in prose narratives or in Ezekiel’s discussion of the new temple (Ezek. 45:21). In the ancient Orient, household bread was prepared by addin ...ring to God (&nbsp;Leviticus 2:4-10 ). It was used in the tabernacle and [[Temple]] to symbolize the presence of God (&nbsp;Exodus 25:23-30; &nbsp;Leviticus
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• Assumption Of Moses
  ...tar is polluted only by injustice (5:4). The [[Essenes]] did not value the Temple sacrifices, and objected to animal sacrifice altogether. The future heavenl
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• Presentation
  ...<p> Both the Purification of Mary and the Presentation of our Lord in the Temple are commemorated on the 2nd of February (Candlemas). Baronius says that the
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• Between The Testaments
  ...al part of Jewish worship declined, through their wide separation from the temple, the eyes of Israel were more firmly fixed on their Scriptures, read every
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• Concise Chronological Table Of Bible History
  ...akes Jerusalem. </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> Herod begins to rebuild the temple. </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> Birth of Christ. (The common [[Christian]]
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• Masons
  ...quarries half a mile from where they were placed in the pediment of the [[Temple]] mount. Some of these stones are estimated to weigh as much as 415 tons. T ...was a level plain. These stones formed no part of the temple, so that the temple could be destroyed without disturbing them. </p> <p> There are such stones
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• Number
  ...lagues were the entire round of judgments from God's hand. The tabernacle, temple, and New Jerusalem have [[Ten]] as the prevailing figure in measurements. < ...Beasts'' , &nbsp;Daniel 7:1 and &nbsp;Revelation 4:6; the ''4 Equal-Sided Temple-Chamber'' , &nbsp;Ezekiel 40:47. </p> <p> [[Three]] was regarded, by both t
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• Moon
  ...f the "queen of heaven" from the Philistines, who possessed a very ancient temple of Venus Urania at [[Ascalon]] ''(Herod.'' 1:105), or from the Egyptians, w
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• Eunuch
  ...would reward the faithful eunuch with a lasting monument and name in the [[Temple]] which would be far better than sons or daughters (&nbsp;Isaiah 56:4-5). E
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• Dance
  ...e women danced separately in an apartment above, and the men danced below. Herod's extravagant promise to Herodias' daughter shows that it was a rare deed in ..., in the case of religious observances, composed the regular chorus of the temple , although there are not wanting instances of men also joining in the dance
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• Angel
  ...Gabriel should be chosen to visit Zechariah, the officiating priest in the temple, to inform him that he was to become a father, and that he had to name his
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• Gabbatha
  ...t the temple was near the castle of Antonia, and (Ant. 15:11, sec. 5) that Herod's palace was near the castle. Therefore, Pilate's hall, which was part of the
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• Cubit
  ...cubit. Ezekiel probably used the [[Babylonian]] “cubit” in describing the temple. The Egyptian shorter cubit is only about three inches shorter than the lon ...a 'great cubit,' and in the commencement of the description of the future temple the reed is described as being "six cubits long by the cubit and a handbrea
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• Hall
  ...uarters (Pilate's &nbsp;Matthew 27:27; &nbsp;Mark 15:16; &nbsp;John 18:28; Herod's &nbsp;Acts 23:35 ). </p>
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• Governor
  ...the Jews” (&nbsp;Ezra 6:7 ). [[Cyrus]] had commissioned him to rebuild the temple in [[Jerusalem]] at the end of the [[Babylonian]] exile. Nehemiah described ...''''Τοῦ''''' '''''Ἱεροῦ''''' (&nbsp;2 Maccabees 3:4), "the governor of the temple"= '''''נָגִיד''''' (comp. &nbsp;2 Chronicles 35:8); and '''''Σατρ
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• Humiliation Of Christ
  ...as invaded by a howling mob of underlings, hangers-on, and soldiers of the temple guard, guided by one of His own disciples (&nbsp;Matthew 26:47, &nbsp;Luke
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• Courtesy
  ...ff.); (2) He transgressed them boldly at times, as in His cleansing of the Temple, His injunction ‘Salute no man by the way’ (&nbsp;Luke 10:4), and His i
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• Hellenism
  ...St. Stephen, one of the Seven, was accused of having spoken against the [[Temple]] and the Law, and by a sudden outbreak of popular hatred he was put to dea ...ilities of a state religion. </p> <p> [[Synagogue]] worship in contrast to Temple worship was purely verbal, consisting in prayer, singing, the reading of th
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• Circumcision
  ...adquarters of those who held these opinions were at Jerusalem, where the [[Temple]] services and the whole atmosphere served to strengthen them in this belie ...religiously significant) in the case of Jews, while the Jewish polity and temple stood. After their overthrow the Jewish usages necessarily ceased. To insis
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• Robber
  ...them fancied security in their evil-doing. (During the [[Jewish]] War the Temple was literally the stronghold of the robbers or Zealots, <i> BJ </i> iv. iii ...sulao, "to rob"), is found in &nbsp;Acts 19:37 . Cp. hierosuleo, "to rob a temple," &nbsp;Romans 2:22 , AV, "commit sacrilege." </p>
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• Judaism Jews
  ...rd among those in exile made possible the remnant that returned to rebuild temple and town, as God had promised through the prophet Jeremiah (25:11; 29:10-14
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• Ark Of God
  ...zekiel. In &nbsp;Revelation 11:19 the ark of God's covenant is seen in the temple of God in heaven: symbol here of the resumption of God's dealings with His
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• City Or Region Of Onias
  ...e of Alexandria, both of whom must have looked upon the worshippers at the temple of Onias as schismatics, it could scarcely have been expected to have come
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• Known As Origen Origenes
  ...of Christ as the true [[Passover]] [[(§§]] 11 ff). The cleansing of the temple is shewn to have an abiding significance in life [[(§]] 16); and Origen
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• Philo
  ...tle attention Philo pays to the Temple at Jerusalem (he never mentions the temple at Leontopolis in Egypt); he is concerned with the cultus only in so far as ...pass.). The soul must strive to become the dwelling-place of God, his holy temple, and so to become strong, whereas it was before weak, and wise, whereas bef
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• Capernaum
  ...ed after a fixed plan, which is totally different from that of any church, temple, or mosque in Palestine’ (Wilson, <i> Recovery </i> , etc. ii. 344). </p> ...Matthew 8:5-13 , &nbsp; Luke 7:2-10 ), provided the half-shekel for the [[Temple]] tribute (&nbsp; Matthew 17:24 ), taught in the synagogue (&nbsp; Mark 1:2
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• Moses
  ...housands, with their children and wives, as martyrs to the honour of their temple, in which no image, even of an emperor, who could scourge them with scorpio ...use" see &nbsp;Hebrews 3:1-6. Pharaoh's murder of the innocents answers to Herod's; Christ like Moses sojourned in Egypt, His 40 days' fast answers to that of
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• Vow
  ...eaven, &c, they considered as not binding: but to swear by the gold of the temple, by the gift on the altar, &c, they considered as binding; the absurdity an ...e in such a way that, when they died, the goods became the property of the temple. The goods were ‘corban’, meaning ‘given to God’. Having promised t
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• Ahasuerus
  ...p;Ezra 4:5), sought by "hired counselors" to frustrate the building of the temple, and wrote against them to Ahasuerus (Cambyses) and Artaxerxes (Pseudo-Smer ...from 486 to 465 BC. At that time the Jews had returned from exile and the temple in [[Jerusalem]] had been rebuilt (completed in 516 BC). The completion of
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• Feasts And Festivals Of Israel
  ...nukkah]] was established to commemorate the recapture and cleansing of the temple by [[Judas]] Maccabeus from the Greek forces of [[Antiochus]] [[Iv]] in abo
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• Jew
  ...mely, the observance of the great feasts and the sacrificial system in the temple at Jerusalem. B. F. Westcott (Smith's Bible Dictionary) notices the prepara ...to have been wrought here, preventing the Jews from the rebuilding of the Temple, especially, Etheridge, Introd. to Hebrew Lit. p. 134 sq.) The attempt, as
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• Castle
  ...fortress (&nbsp;Nehemiah 7:2 ). The Chronicler used the term for Solomon's Temple (1Chronicles 29:1,&nbsp;1 Chronicles 29:19 ) and used the term in the plura ...ity, and he graphically reproduces the details of the scene. [[News]] of a Temple riot-no uncommon occurrence-came up (ἀνέβη φἀσις) to the comman
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• Essence
  ...evotional state of mind; </p> <p> '''3.''' To abstain from frequenting the Temple and offering sacrifices (compare Josephus Ant. 18:1, 5); and, </p> <p> '''4
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• Bel
  ...e was of the same metal, and valued at eight hundred talents of gold. This temple, with its riches, was in being till the time of Xerxes, who, returning from ...t expressly mentioned. [[Diodorus]] (2, 9) gives a similar account of this temple; but adds that there were large golden statues of Zeus, Hera, and [[Rhea]]
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• Prudence
  ...are in judgment the evil of Pharisaism, the master sin which dwells in the Temple, serving the very altar (see [[Perfection]] of Jesus, p. 337). But the inve
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• Gospels
  ...t three in facts such as the date of the Crucifixion, the cleansing of the Temple, and the account of John the Baptist; it is therefore hopelessly unhistoric ...ce, and numbers; also supplemental matter (&nbsp;John 2:19), "destroy this temple," accounting for the charge of the false witnesses unexplained in &nbsp;Mat
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• The Dial Of Ahaz
  ...years were added to the life of Hezekiah. In the restoration of the second temple by Herod fifteen steps led from the Court of the Women to the Court of Isra
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• Prostitute
  ...ys that no fewer than 1000 of these abandoned females were attached to the temple of Aphrodite in Corinth, and were considered as an indispensable part of th
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• High Priest
  ...ent. It is not clear just how far he participated in the ceremonies of the temple. No doubt he alone entered the Holy of Holies once a year on the Day of Ato
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• Bacchus
  ...e and cymbals, and had garlands of ivy, and a golden vine was found in the Temple, they worshipped Bacchus, for that this was not at all in accordance with t ...emple of God even with the ground, break down the altar, and erect there a temple unto Bacchus (Dionysus) for all to see" (2 Macc 14:33). See [[Dionysia]] .
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• Judas
  ...ght, when the people of Jerusalem were asleep, Judas led an armed group of temple guards and Roman soldiers to the place. His final act of treachery was to i ...is stated, </p> <p> '''(1)''' That, instead of throwing the money into the Temple, he bought ( '''''Ἐκτήσατο''''' ) a field with it. As to this poin
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• The Gospel According To Mark
  ...), states that "Jesus would not suffer any to carry any vessel through the temple" (&nbsp;Mark 11:16), that Simon of [[Cyrene]] was father of [[Alexander]] a ...ark 6:3; Jesus is here called "the carpenter"); αὐτοῦ , (&nbsp;Mark 6:22 , Herod's daughter probably had two names, [[Salome]] and Herodias); πυγμῆ , (&
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• War
  ...lem]] was always well defended, especially Mount Zion. In later times, the temple itself was used as a castle. The principal parts of a fortification were, <
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• Jordan
  ...too shallow at the ordinary fords. John moved gradually northwards toward Herod's province where ultimately he was beheaded; Jesus coming from the N. southwa ...ng from a grotto consecrated to the god Pan. At this place Herod erected a temple of white marble dedicated to [[Augustus]] Caesar. This is probably the Baal
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• Angels
  ...[Worship]] and service are their twofold function; priests in the heavenly temple (&nbsp;Isaiah 6:1-3; &nbsp;1 Kings 22:19; &nbsp;Daniel 7:9-10; &nbsp;Revela
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• Book Of Esther
  ...ion of Cyrus, granting permission to the Jews to return and to rebuild the Temple. There is little to be wondered at that it contains no reference to events
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• Christ As King
  ...monarchy developed as a secondary institution alongside the priesthood and temple cult. One can discern two views of the anointed monarchy in the Old Testame ...Magi who inquire for the newborn king of the Jews, and the scribes answer Herod's question by showing from Micah's prophecy that the Christ to be born in Bet
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• Gospel According To Luke
  ...was with the redactor of St. Matthew, synchronous with the burning of the Temple. He carefully puts our Lord’s teaching about the last days into a separat
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• Oil
  ...them oil of sesame, fish oil, castor oil, and naphtha. That used in the [[Temple]] (&nbsp; 1 Chronicles 9:29 ) was no doubt of the finest quality, like the ...eturn for the timber and other materials furnished for the building of the Temple (&nbsp;1 Kings 5:11). </p> <p> Hugh Duncan. </p>
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