Thematic Bible




Thematic Bible



My troubles have increased. Relieve my troubled heart, and bring me out of my distress.

Remove the plague you laid upon me. My life is over because you apposed me with your hand.

Do not be too angry, Jehovah. Do not remember our sin forever. Now look, we are all your people. Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a desert. Jerusalem is a wasteland. Our holy and beautiful Temple where our ancestors praised you has been burned to the ground. All that we valued has been ruined. read more.
Despite these things, Jehovah, will you restrain yourself? Will you be silent and make us suffer beyond measure?



Over and above all this that I have provided, I have given silver and gold from my personal property because of my love for God's Temple.

Moses took the anointing oil to anoint the tent and everything in it and dedicate them. He sprinkled the altar seven times. He anointed the altar; it's utensils, the washbasin and its pedestal. This made them holy.

Moses finished setting up the tent. He anointed it and dedicated it and all the furnishings. He also anointed and dedicated the altar and all the utensils.

Then dedicate the Tabernacle and all its equipment by anointing it with the sacred oil, and it will be holy.


This is for dedicating the tent and chest, the table with its equipment, the lamp stand with its equipment, the incense altar with all its utensils, the altar for sacrifices, and the large bowl with its stand. read more.
You will make them so holy that anyone who even touches them will become holy when you dedicate them this way.

He must place the incense on the fire in Jehovah's presence. The cloud of incense will cover the throne of mercy. This is over the words of God's promise, so that he will not die.

He must not leave the holy tent of his God. If he does, he will be dishonoring it, because he is dedicated with the anointing oil of his God. I am Jehovah.

Jehovah said: I have heard your prayers and your supplication you made. I have made this house holy. I put my name there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there at all times.

He made the most holy place. It was as long as the Temple was wide, thirty feet long. It was also thirty feet wide. He overlaid it with forty-five thousand pounds of fine gold.

Our holy and beautiful Temple where our ancestors praised you has been burned to the ground. All that we valued has been ruined.

For when they had slaughtered their children for their idols, they entered my sanctuary on the same day to profane it. Then they did within my house.



The Babylonians carried off to Babylon all the treasures in the Temple and the palace. As Jehovah foretold, Nebuchadnezzar broke up all the gold utensils King Solomon had made for use in the Temple.

Our holy and beautiful Temple where our ancestors praised you has been burned to the ground. All that we valued has been ruined.

([Psalm of Asaph]) O God, the nations have invaded the land that belongs to you. They have dishonored (defiled) your holy temple. They have left Jerusalem in ruins.

How dark the gold has become! How changed is the best gold! The stones of the holy place are dropping out at the top of every street.

Nebuchadnezzar also brought some of the utensils of Jehovah's Temple to Babylon. He put them in his palace (temple) in Babylon.

King Cyrus gave back the bowls and cups that King Nebuchadnezzar took from the Temple in Jerusalem and put in the temple of his god.

He burned down the Temple and the city, with all its palaces and its wealth, and broke down the city wall.

Jehovah rejected his altar and disowned his holy place. He gave up into the hands of the attacker the walls of her great houses. Their voices have been loud in the house of Jehovah as in the day of a holy meeting.

He had the Temple of Jehovah, the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned with fire. The army of the Chaldaeans under the command of the captain of the army broke down the walls around Jerusalem. The rest of the people still in the town, and all those who had given themselves up to the king of Babylon, and all the rest of the workmen were taken away as prisoners by Nebuzaradan, the captain of the army. read more.
He let the poorest of the land go on living there, to take care of the vines and the fields. The copper pillars in the Temple of Jehovah, and the wheeled bases, and the great copper water-vessel in the Temple of Jehovah were broken up by the Chaldaeans. They took the copper to Babylon. The pots and the spades and the scissors for the lights and the spoons, and all the copper vessels used in Jehovah's Temple were taken away. The captain of the guard took all of the incense burners and bowls that were made of gold or silver. The bronze from the two pillars, the pool, and the stands that Solomon made for Jehovah's Temple could not be weighed. One pillar was twenty-seven feet high and had a copper crown on it that was four and one half feet high. The filigree and the pomegranates around the crown were all made of copper. The second pillar and its filigree were the same.

I also spoke this message to the priests and all the people. This is what Jehovah said to me: Do not listen to the prophets who tell you that the utensils of Jehovah's Temple will be brought back from Babylon soon. They prophesy lies to you.

Jehovah of Host reports concerning the pillars, concerning the sea, concerning the stands and concerning the rest of the vessels that are left in this city, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take when he carried into exile Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem. Thus says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that are left in the House of Jehovah and in the house of the king of Judah and in Jerusalem, read more.
They will be carried to Babylon and they will be there until the day I visit them, declares Jehovah. Then I will bring them back and restore them to this place.'

Within two years I will bring back to this place all the temple treasures that King Nebuchadnezzar took to Babylon.'

He burned down Jehovah's Temple, the royal palace, and all the houses in Jerusalem. Every important building was burned down.

The Babylonians broke apart the copper pillars of Jehovah's Temple, the stands, and the copper pool in Jehovah's Temple. They shipped all the copper to Babylon. they took the pots, shovels, snuffers, bowls, dishes, and all the copper utensils used in the Temple service. The captain of the guard also took pans, incense burners, bowls, pots, lamp stands, dishes, and the bowls used for wine offerings. The captain of the guard took all of the trays and bowls that were made of gold or silver. read more.
The copper from the two pillars, the pool, and the twelve copper bulls under the stands that King Solomon had made for Jehovah's Temple could not be weighed. One pillar was twenty-seven feet high and eighteen feet in circumference. It was three inches thick and hollow. The crown that was on it was seven and one half feet high with filigree and pomegranates around it. They were all made of copper. The second pillar was the same. It also had pomegranates. There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides. The total number of pomegranates on the surrounding filigree was one hundred.


He had the Temple of Jehovah, the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned with fire.

Our holy and beautiful Temple where our ancestors praised you has been burned to the ground. All that we valued has been ruined.

It is your fault that Zion will be plowed like a field. Jerusalem will become heaps of ruin, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

He said to them: Do you see these things? I tell you, not one stone will be left upon another. They will all be thrown down.

They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling-place of your name.


Our holy and beautiful Temple where our ancestors praised you has been burned to the ground. All that we valued has been ruined.


Our holy and beautiful Temple where our ancestors praised you has been burned to the ground. All that we valued has been ruined.