100 Bible Verses About Temple
Bible verses about Temple
Exploring the concept of "Temple" in scripture unveils profound truths about God's presence and our relationship with Him. From the physical temple in Jerusalem, a dwelling place for the divine, to the understanding of our own bodies as temples of the Holy Spirit, these verses illuminate the evolution of worship and connection with God. Delving into these passages allows us to grasp the significance of reverence, sacrifice, and the sacred space within ourselves where we encounter the living God. Understanding the temple's symbolism enriches our spiritual journey, guiding us towards a deeper appreciation of God's enduring love and His desire to reside within us.
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Exodus 39:39 (KJV)
The brasen altar, and his grate of brass, his staves, and all his vessels, the laver and his foot,
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And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, for all the service of the tabernacle: and a stranger shall not come nigh unto you.
And if thou offer a meat offering of thy firstfruits unto the Lord, thou shalt offer for the meat offering of thy firstfruits green ears of corn dried by the fire, even corn beaten out of full ears.
And Micah said unto him, Whence comest thou? And he said unto him, I am a Levite of Beth–lehem–judah, and I go to sojourn where I may find a place.
If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, whithersoever thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the Lord toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house that I have built for thy name:
And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.
And it was covered with cedar above upon the beams, that lay on forty five pillars, fifteen in a row.
Behold, bless ye the Lord, all ye servants of the Lord, which by night stand in the house of the Lord.
And that which remaineth of the flesh and of the bread shall ye burn with fire.
Thus ye also shall offer an heave offering unto the Lord of all your tithes, which ye receive of the children of Israel; and ye shall give thereof the Lord’s heave offering to Aaron the priest.
For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his glory.
And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, made he of gold, and that perfect gold;
And some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the house of the Lord which is at Jerusalem, offered freely for the house of God to set it up in his place:
But unto the tribe of Levi Moses gave not any inheritance: the Lord God of Israel was their inheritance, as he said unto them.
And they put the fat upon the breasts, and he burnt the fat upon the altar:
And on the fifth day nine bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without spot:
And the other lamb thou shalt offer at even, and shalt do thereto according to the meat offering of the morning, and according to the drink offering thereof, for a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the Lord.
Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the Lord, until those days.
When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.
And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces, and wash the inwards of him, and his legs, and put them unto his pieces, and unto his head.
Then it shall be, if ought be committed by ignorance without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bullock for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour unto the Lord, with his meat offering, and his drink offering, according to the manner, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering.
And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.
And he shall wash his flesh with water in the holy place, and put on his garments, and come forth, and offer his burnt offering, and the burnt offering of the people, and make an atonement for himself, and for the people.
And the breasts and the right shoulder Aaron waved for a wave offering before the Lord; as Moses commanded.
Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried the ark of God again to Jerusalem: and they tarried there.
And the bullock for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy place, shall one carry forth without the camp; and they shall burn in the fire their skins, and their flesh, and their dung.
And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest’s office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.
And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.
We will go into his tabernacles: we will worship at his footstool.
For every meat offering for the priest shall be wholly burnt: it shall not be eaten.
And I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah: for they were counted faithful, and their office was to distribute unto their brethren.
The length of one curtain was twenty and eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: the curtains were all of one size.
And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch was before them: and the other pillars and the thick beam were before them.
And ye shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation in seven days, until the days of your consecration be at an end: for seven days shall he consecrate you.
Likewise this is the law of the trespass offering: it is most holy.
Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah.
And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.
And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the Lord.
And within the oracle he made two cherubims of olive tree, each ten cubits high.
Then shall he that offereth his offering unto the Lord bring a meat offering of a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of oil.
And Benaiah came to the tabernacle of the Lord, and said unto him, Thus saith the king, Come forth. And he said, Nay; but I will die here. And Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me.
And that which is left of the meat offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’: it is a thing most holy of the offerings of the Lord made by fire.
From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old shalt thou number them, every one that entereth into the service, to do the work of the tabernacle of the congregation.
So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.
And thou shalt kill the bullock before the Lord, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
And the priest shall take of the blood thereof with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom of the altar.
For the saying which he cried by the word of the Lord against the altar in Beth–el, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.
And their pillars were four, and their sockets of brass four; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their chapiters and their fillets of silver.
And if his offering be of the flocks, namely, of the sheep, or of the goats, for a burnt sacrifice; he shall bring it a male without blemish.
In the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits;
For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graved cherubims, lions, and palm trees, according to the proportion of every one, and additions round about.
This is the law of the Nazarite who hath vowed, and of his offering unto the Lord for his separation, beside that that his hand shall get: according to the vow which he vowed, so he must do after the law of his separation.
And they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal, and burned them.
Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place that thou seest:
And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
And the priest that maketh him clean shall present the man that is to be made clean, and those things, before the Lord, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:
And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always.
One spoon of ten shekels of gold, full of incense:
And Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven:
Have ye not cast out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you priests after the manner of the nations of other lands? so that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams, the same may be a priest of them that are no gods.
And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the Lord.
Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.
And every man’s hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be his.
But Hannah went not up; for she said unto her husband, I will not go up until the child be weaned, and then I will bring him, that he may appear before the Lord, and there abide for ever.
And thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of the Lord thy God: and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of the Lord thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh.
Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord God.
And he made staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold.
Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;
Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah.
Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
And for the second side of the tabernacle on the north side there shall be twenty boards:
All the hangings of the court round about were of fine twined linen.
The Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord’s throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt cleanse them, and offer them for an offering.
And the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the Lord: this is holy for the priest, with the wave breast and heave shoulder: and after that the Nazarite may drink wine.
And if thy oblation be a meat offering baken in a pan, it shall be of fine flour unleavened, mingled with oil.
Then Solomon came from his journey to the high place that was at Gibeon to Jerusalem, from before the tabernacle of the congregation, and reigned over Israel.
All the days of his separation he is holy unto the Lord.
This is the law of the burnt offering, of the meat offering, and of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering, and of the consecrations, and of the sacrifice of the peace offerings;
And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni.
And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, shall be of pure gold.
The brasen altar, and his grate of brass, his staves, and all his vessels, the laver and his foot,
Then the priest shall look: and, behold, if the bright spots in the skin of their flesh be darkish white; it is a freckled spot that groweth in the skin; he is clean.
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in thee.
And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meat offering upon the altar: and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and he shall be clean.
Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.
And ye shall offer a burnt offering for a sweet savour unto the Lord; one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year without blemish:
They have seen thy goings, O God; even the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary.
And in the most holy house he made two cherubims of image work, and overlaid them with gold.
From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation,
The ark, and the staves thereof, with the mercy seat, and the vail of the covering,
There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.
And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar.
And beneath upon the hem of it thou shalt make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the hem thereof; and bells of gold between them round about:
And he carved thereon cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work.
And he made the incense altar of shittim wood: the length of it was a cubit, and the breadth of it a cubit; it was foursquare; and two cubits was the height of it; the horns thereof were of the same.
And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the Lord, Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law of the Lord given by Moses.
And thou shalt put them upon Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him; and shalt anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister unto me in the priest’s office.
And the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he overlaid their chapiters and their fillets with gold: but their five sockets were of brass.
The table, and his staves, and all his vessels, and the shewbread,
The compiled verses highlight the multifaceted understanding of the Temple throughout biblical history. From the physical structure in Jerusalem, a dwelling place for God and a center for worship and sacrifice, the concept evolves to encompass the spiritual temple – the body of Christ and the individual believer indwelt by the Holy Spirit. Reflecting on these passages encourages a deeper appreciation for the sacredness of God's presence and our role in honoring Him. Whether in acts of corporate worship, personal devotion, or living a life that reflects Christ's character, we are called to maintain and cherish the "temple" – both physical and spiritual – as a sanctuary dedicated to His glory. May these verses inspire you to consider how you are contributing to the building and upkeep of God's Temple in its various forms.