Thematic Bible: Reasons for


Thematic Bible



And they gave him worship and went back to Jerusalem with great joy. And they were in the Temple at all times, giving praise to God.

Now in the middle of the feast Jesus went up to the Temple and was teaching. Verse ConceptsAcademicsPilgrimageJesus As Our TeacherChrist TeachingChrist In The Temple



But let your hearts be turned to the place which will be marked out by the Lord your God, among your tribes, to put his name there; Verse ConceptsChoicesHousesWorship, Places OfSacred PlacesA Place For God's Name

Three times in the year let all your males come before the Lord your God in the place named by him; at the feast of unleavened bread, the feast of weeks, and the feast of tents: and they are not to come before the Lord with nothing in their hands; Verse ConceptsFeasting On Special OccasionsLaw, OtPilgrimageWorship, Times ForMen WorshippingEmpty HandedThree Times A YearFestivals Observedvacation

And on hearing it Hezekiah took off his robe and put on haircloth and went into the house of the Lord. Verse ConceptsEntering The TempleThose Who Tore Clothes

And Hezekiah took the letter from the hands of those who had come with it; and after reading it, Hezekiah went up to the house of the Lord, opening the letter there before the Lord, Verse ConceptsLettersSpreading

Happy are they whose resting-place is in your house: they will still be praising you. (Selah.) Verse ConceptsBlessed Through GodPsalm InterjectionsBlessings From GodPraising God In Public Worship


And he came to Nazareth, where he had been as a child, and he went, as his way was, into the Synagogue on the Sabbath, and got up to give a reading. Verse ConceptsCustomReadingHabitsLiteracySabbath, In NtSynagogueWorship, Times ForReading The ScripturesOn The SabbathGoing To Churchculture

Two men went up to the Temple for prayer; one a Pharisee, and the other a tax-farmer. Verse ConceptsRich, TheJewish SectsTwo PeopleCharacteristics Of PhariseesPraying For OthersGoing To ChurchPrayingtaxespharisees

And there was one, Anna, a woman prophet, the daughter of Phanuel, of the family of Asher (she was very old, and after seven years of married life She had been a widow for eighty-four years); she was in the Temple at all times, worshipping with prayers and going without food, night and day.

And a number of nations will go and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will give us knowledge of his ways and we will be guided by his word: for from Zion the law will go out, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. Verse ConceptsKnowing God's WaysParticipation, In ChristPilgrimageRevival, CorporateWord Of GodGod As Our TeacherGoing Up MountainsGod TeachingWalking In The Ways Of GodThe Gospel To The NationsThe Temple In HeavenThe Law Given To IsraelPaths

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain