Thematic Bible


Thematic Bible



How happy is the one You choose
and bring near to live in Your courts!
We will be satisfied with the goodness of Your house,
the holiness of Your temple.
Verse Conceptselection, privileges ofChoicesdrawing near to GodAccess To God, The Characteristics OfApproaching GodPlenty Through GodBlessed Through GodWe Live With GodGoodness

As my life was fading away,
I remembered Yahweh.
My prayer came to You,
to Your holy temple.
Verse ConceptsRememberingAfflicted Saints, Examples OfFaintingThe Temple In HeavenGod Answered PrayerBelievers Remembering God

The whole building, being put together by Him, grows into a holy sanctuary in the Lord. Verse ConceptsSanctuaryChurch, Unity OfGrowth Of The ChurchJoined To The ChurchGrowingconstructionstructure

But I enter Your house
by the abundance of Your faithful love;
I bow down toward Your holy temple
in reverential awe of You.
Verse ConceptsAdoration, Of GodBowingAttitudes Of ReverenceCeremoniesMagnifying GodPrayer, And WorshipReverence, And God's NatureBowing Before GodThe First Templegreatnessreverence


A psalm of Asaph.God, the nations have invaded Your inheritance,
desecrated Your holy temple,
and turned Jerusalem into ruins.
Verse ConceptsInvasionsIrreverenceDestruction Of JerusalemPolluting Holy PlacesNations Attacking Israel

I will bow down toward Your holy temple
and give thanks to Your name
for Your constant love and truth.
You have exalted Your name
and Your promise above everything else.
Verse ConceptsBowingCeremoniesPraise, Reasons ForPrayer, And WorshipWorship, Reasons ForLovingkindnessBowing Before GodGod's TruthWe Thank God

But I said: I have been banished
from Your sight,
yet I will look once more
toward Your holy temple.
Verse ConceptsBanishmentDriven From God's Presence

Listen, all you peoples;
pay attention, earth and everyone in it!
The Lord God will be a witness against you,
the Lord, from His holy temple.
Verse ConceptsHearingListeningThe Witness Of GodThe Temple In Heaven


A psalm of Asaph.God, the nations have invaded Your inheritance,
desecrated Your holy temple,
and turned Jerusalem into ruins.
Verse ConceptsInvasionsIrreverenceDestruction Of JerusalemPolluting Holy PlacesNations Attacking Israel

י YodThe adversary has seized
all her precious belongings.
She has even seen the nations
enter her sanctuary—
those You had forbidden
to enter Your assembly.
Verse ConceptsPagansDesecrationEntering The TempleForeigners In The Holy PlacesTaking Possession

A psalm of Asaph.God, the nations have invaded Your inheritance,
desecrated Your holy temple,
and turned Jerusalem into ruins.
Verse ConceptsInvasionsIrreverenceDestruction Of JerusalemPolluting Holy PlacesNations Attacking Israel

They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. Verse ConceptsFulnessLossKilled With The SwordForeigners In The Holy PlacesForeigners SubduedAll NationsTrampling PlacesGentiles

Then I was given a measuring reed like a rod, with these words: "Go and measure God's sanctuary and the altar, and [count] those who worship there. But exclude the courtyard outside the sanctuary. Don't measure it, because it is given to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for 42 months.

King Jehoash of Israel captured Judah’s King Amaziah son of Joash, son of Jehoahaz, at Beth-shemesh. Then Jehoash took him to Jerusalem and broke down 200 yards of Jerusalem’s wall from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate. Verse ConceptsGatesBattering ramsNamed GatesTwelve Beings

Then Aram’s King Rezin and Israel’s King Pekah son of Remaliah came to wage war against Jerusalem. They besieged Ahaz but were not able to conquer him. Verse ConceptsActual Attacks On JerusalemList Of Kings Of Israelsyria

A psalm of Asaph.God, the nations have invaded Your inheritance,
desecrated Your holy temple,
and turned Jerusalem into ruins.
Verse ConceptsInvasionsIrreverenceDestruction Of JerusalemPolluting Holy PlacesNations Attacking Israel

King Jehoash of Israel captured Judah’s King Amaziah son of Joash, son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh. Then Jehoash went to Jerusalem and broke down 200 yards of Jerusalem’s wall from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate. Verse ConceptsGatesBattering ramsWallsDestruction Of JerusalemDestruction Of Jerusalem's WallNamed GatesList Of Kings Of Israel

In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt went to war against Jerusalem. Verse Conceptsenemies, of Israel and JudahActual Attacks On Jerusalem

At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched up to Jerusalem, and the city came under siege.

How she sits alone,
the city once crowded with people!
She who was great among the nations
has become like a widow.
The princess among the provinces
has been put to forced labor.
Verse ConceptsLamentingQueensFilling PlacesWidowsEmpty CitiesGreat ThingsLuciferlonliness

King Jehoash of Israel captured Judah’s King Amaziah son of Joash, son of Jehoahaz, at Beth-shemesh. Then Jehoash took him to Jerusalem and broke down 200 yards of Jerusalem’s wall from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate. Verse ConceptsGatesBattering ramsNamed GatesTwelve Beings

Then Aram’s King Rezin and Israel’s King Pekah son of Remaliah came to wage war against Jerusalem. They besieged Ahaz but were not able to conquer him. Verse ConceptsActual Attacks On JerusalemList Of Kings Of Israelsyria

A psalm of Asaph.God, the nations have invaded Your inheritance,
desecrated Your holy temple,
and turned Jerusalem into ruins.
Verse ConceptsInvasionsIrreverenceDestruction Of JerusalemPolluting Holy PlacesNations Attacking Israel

King Jehoash of Israel captured Judah’s King Amaziah son of Joash, son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh. Then Jehoash went to Jerusalem and broke down 200 yards of Jerusalem’s wall from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate. Verse ConceptsGatesBattering ramsWallsDestruction Of JerusalemDestruction Of Jerusalem's WallNamed GatesList Of Kings Of Israel

In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt went to war against Jerusalem. Verse Conceptsenemies, of Israel and JudahActual Attacks On Jerusalem

At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched up to Jerusalem, and the city came under siege.

How she sits alone,
the city once crowded with people!
She who was great among the nations
has become like a widow.
The princess among the provinces
has been put to forced labor.
Verse ConceptsLamentingQueensFilling PlacesWidowsEmpty CitiesGreat ThingsLuciferlonliness

A psalm of Asaph.God, the nations have invaded Your inheritance,
desecrated Your holy temple,
and turned Jerusalem into ruins.
Verse ConceptsInvasionsIrreverenceDestruction Of JerusalemPolluting Holy PlacesNations Attacking Israel

They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. Verse ConceptsFulnessLossKilled With The SwordForeigners In The Holy PlacesForeigners SubduedAll NationsTrampling PlacesGentiles

Then I was given a measuring reed like a rod, with these words: "Go and measure God's sanctuary and the altar, and [count] those who worship there. But exclude the courtyard outside the sanctuary. Don't measure it, because it is given to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for 42 months.

King Jehoash of Israel captured Judah’s King Amaziah son of Joash, son of Jehoahaz, at Beth-shemesh. Then Jehoash took him to Jerusalem and broke down 200 yards of Jerusalem’s wall from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate. Verse ConceptsGatesBattering ramsNamed GatesTwelve Beings

Then Aram’s King Rezin and Israel’s King Pekah son of Remaliah came to wage war against Jerusalem. They besieged Ahaz but were not able to conquer him. Verse ConceptsActual Attacks On JerusalemList Of Kings Of Israelsyria

A psalm of Asaph.God, the nations have invaded Your inheritance,
desecrated Your holy temple,
and turned Jerusalem into ruins.
Verse ConceptsInvasionsIrreverenceDestruction Of JerusalemPolluting Holy PlacesNations Attacking Israel

King Jehoash of Israel captured Judah’s King Amaziah son of Joash, son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh. Then Jehoash went to Jerusalem and broke down 200 yards of Jerusalem’s wall from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate. Verse ConceptsGatesBattering ramsWallsDestruction Of JerusalemDestruction Of Jerusalem's WallNamed GatesList Of Kings Of Israel

In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt went to war against Jerusalem. Verse Conceptsenemies, of Israel and JudahActual Attacks On Jerusalem

At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched up to Jerusalem, and the city came under siege.

How she sits alone,
the city once crowded with people!
She who was great among the nations
has become like a widow.
The princess among the provinces
has been put to forced labor.
Verse ConceptsLamentingQueensFilling PlacesWidowsEmpty CitiesGreat ThingsLuciferlonliness

God, the nations have invaded Your inheritance, desecrated Your holy temple, and turned Jerusalem into ruins. They gave the corpses of Your servants to the birds of the sky for food, the flesh of Your godly ones to the beasts of the earth. They poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there was no one to bury [them]. read more.
We have become an object of reproach to our neighbors, a source of mockery and ridicule to those around us. How long, Lord? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy keep burning like fire? Pour out Your wrath on the nations that don't acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that don't call on Your name, for they have devoured Jacob and devastated his homeland.

"Because you maintained an ancient hatred and handed over the Israelites to the power of the sword in the time of their disaster, the time of final punishment, therefore, as I live"-[this is] the declaration of the Lord God -"I will destine you for bloodshed, and it will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, it will pursue you.

He also carried off from there all the treasures of the Lord’s temple and the treasures of the king’s palace, and he cut into pieces all the gold articles that Solomon king of Israel had made for the Lord’s sanctuary, just as God had predicted. Verse ConceptsPalacesStoringTreasureTributesBreaking ContainersTemple Utensils Removed

Our holy and beautiful temple,
where our fathers praised You,
has been burned with fire,
and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.
Verse ConceptsTreasureArchaeologyBurning JerusalemOther Praising Of GodPraising God In Public Worship

A psalm of Asaph.God, the nations have invaded Your inheritance,
desecrated Your holy temple,
and turned Jerusalem into ruins.
Verse ConceptsInvasionsIrreverenceDestruction Of JerusalemPolluting Holy PlacesNations Attacking Israel

How the gold has become tarnished,
the fine gold become dull!
The stones of the temple lie scattered
at the corner of every street.
Verse ConceptsPeople As RocksTragedy On The StreetsThings Like Gold

Also Nebuchadnezzar took some of the utensils of the Lord’s temple to Babylon and put them in his temple in Babylon.

King Cyrus also brought out the articles of the Lord’s house that Nebuchadnezzar had taken from Jerusalem and had placed in the house of his gods. Verse ConceptsHoly VesselsSacred VesselsTemple Utensils Removed

Then the Chaldeans burned God’s temple. They tore down Jerusalem’s wall, burned down all its palaces, and destroyed all its valuable articles. Verse ConceptsFortificationsBattering ramsPalacesWallsConflagrationsDestruction Of Jerusalem's Wall

ז ZayinThe Lord has rejected His altar,
repudiated His sanctuary;
He has handed the walls of her palaces
over to the enemy.
They have raised a shout in the house of the Lord
as on the day of an appointed festival.
Verse ConceptsAbandonmentRejecting ThingsRejection Of God, Results OfSanctuaryWallsDestruction Of Jerusalem's WallShouting To The LordFestivals Disregarded

He burned the Lord's temple, the king's palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem; he burned down all the great houses. The whole Chaldean army [with] the commander of the guards tore down the walls surrounding Jerusalem. Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guards, deported the rest of the people who were left in the city, the deserters who had defected to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the population. read more.
But the commander of the guards left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and farmers. Now the Chaldeans broke into pieces the bronze pillars of the Lord's temple, the water carts, and the bronze reservoir, which were in the Lord's temple, and carried the bronze to Babylon. They also took the pots, the shovels, the wick trimmers, the dishes, and all the bronze articles used in [temple] service. The commander of the guards took away the firepans and the sprinkling basins-whatever was gold or silver. As for the two pillars, the one reservoir, and the water carts that Solomon had made for the Lord's temple, the weight of the bronze of all these articles was beyond measure. One pillar was 27 feet tall and had a bronze capital on top of it. The capital, encircled by a grating and pomegranates of bronze, stood five feet high. The second pillar was the same, with its own grating.

Then I spoke to the priests and all these people, saying, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Do not listen to the words of your prophets. They are prophesying to you, claiming, “Look, very soon now the articles of the Lord’s temple will be brought back from Babylon.” They are prophesying a lie to you. Verse ConceptsReturn From BabylonProphesying LiesWicked ProphetsDo Not Listen!

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For this is what the Lord of Hosts says about the pillars, the sea, the water carts, and the rest of the articles that still remain in this city, those Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take when he deported Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon along with all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem. Yes, this is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says about the articles that remain in the temple of the Lord, in the palace of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem: read more.
'They will be brought to Babylon and will remain there until I attend to them again.' [This is] the Lord's declaration. 'Then I will bring them up and restore them to this place.' "

Within two years I will restore to this place all the articles of the Lord’s temple that King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon took from here and transported to Babylon. Verse ConceptsHoly VesselsSacred VesselsTwo YearsTemple Utensils Removed

He burned the Lord’s temple, the king’s palace, all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the nobles. Verse ConceptsPalacesDestruction Of HousesBurning Jerusalem

Now the Chaldeans broke into pieces the bronze pillars for the Lord's temple and the water carts and the bronze reservoir that were in the Lord's temple, and carried all the bronze to Babylon. They took the pots, the shovels, the wick trimmers, the sprinkling basins, the dishes, and all the bronze articles used in [temple] service. The commander of the guards took away the bowls, the firepans, the sprinkling basins, the pots, the lampstands, the pans, and the drink offering bowls-whatever was gold or silver. read more.
As for the two pillars, the one reservoir, and the 12 bronze bulls under the water carts that King Solomon had made for the Lord's temple, the weight of the bronze of all these articles was beyond measure. One pillar was 27 feet tall, had a circumference of 18 feet, was hollow-four fingers thick- and had a bronze capital on top of it. One capital, encircled by bronze latticework and pomegranates, stood seven and a half feet high. The second pillar was the same, with pomegranates. [Each capital had] 96 pomegranates all around it. All the pomegranates around the latticework numbered 100.

Now Peter and John were going up together to the temple complex at the hour of prayer at three in the afternoon. Verse ConceptsFamily SolidarityCeremoniesHourWorship, Times ForPrayer Meetings3 PmDisciples In The TempleWhen To PrayThe First TemplePrayingpartnership

But I enter Your house
by the abundance of Your faithful love;
I bow down toward Your holy temple
in reverential awe of You.
Verse ConceptsAdoration, Of GodBowingAttitudes Of ReverenceCeremoniesMagnifying GodPrayer, And WorshipReverence, And God's NatureBowing Before GodThe First Templegreatnessreverence


A psalm of Asaph.God, the nations have invaded Your inheritance,
desecrated Your holy temple,
and turned Jerusalem into ruins.
Verse ConceptsInvasionsIrreverenceDestruction Of JerusalemPolluting Holy PlacesNations Attacking Israel

I will bow down toward Your holy temple
and give thanks to Your name
for Your constant love and truth.
You have exalted Your name
and Your promise above everything else.
Verse ConceptsBowingCeremoniesPraise, Reasons ForPrayer, And WorshipWorship, Reasons ForLovingkindnessBowing Before GodGod's TruthWe Thank God

A psalm of Asaph.God, the nations have invaded Your inheritance,
desecrated Your holy temple,
and turned Jerusalem into ruins.
Verse ConceptsInvasionsIrreverenceDestruction Of JerusalemPolluting Holy PlacesNations Attacking Israel

Now Peter and John were going up together to the temple complex at the hour of prayer at three in the afternoon. Verse ConceptsFamily SolidarityCeremoniesHourWorship, Times ForPrayer Meetings3 PmDisciples In The TempleWhen To PrayThe First TemplePrayingpartnership

But I enter Your house
by the abundance of Your faithful love;
I bow down toward Your holy temple
in reverential awe of You.
Verse ConceptsAdoration, Of GodBowingAttitudes Of ReverenceCeremoniesMagnifying GodPrayer, And WorshipReverence, And God's NatureBowing Before GodThe First Templegreatnessreverence


A psalm of Asaph.God, the nations have invaded Your inheritance,
desecrated Your holy temple,
and turned Jerusalem into ruins.
Verse ConceptsInvasionsIrreverenceDestruction Of JerusalemPolluting Holy PlacesNations Attacking Israel

I will bow down toward Your holy temple
and give thanks to Your name
for Your constant love and truth.
You have exalted Your name
and Your promise above everything else.
Verse ConceptsBowingCeremoniesPraise, Reasons ForPrayer, And WorshipWorship, Reasons ForLovingkindnessBowing Before GodGod's TruthWe Thank God