20 Bible Verses about Courts Of The Temple
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The same day the king consecrated the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD, for there he offered the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat pieces of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that was before the LORD was too small to receive the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat pieces of the peace offerings.
And the glory of the LORDwent up from the cherub to the threshold of the house, and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was filled with the brightness of the glory of the LORD.
And he measured the court, a hundred cubits long and a hundred cubits broad, a square. And the altar was in front of the temple.
in the four corners of the court were small courts, forty cubits long and thirty broad; the four were of the same size.
Then he brought me into the outer court. And behold, there were chambers and a pavement, all around the court. Thirty chambers faced the pavement.
And he brought me to the entrance of the court, and when I looked, behold, there was a hole in the wall.
And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the LORD. And behold, at the entrance of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs to the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east, worshiping the sun toward the east.
Then he led me out into the outer court, toward the north, and he brought me to the chambers that were opposite the separate yard and opposite the building on the north.
He put out the form of a hand and took me by a lock of my head, and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and brought me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the gateway of the inner court that faces north, where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.
Then he brought me to the inner court on the east side, and he measured the gate. It was of the same size as the others.
And there was a gate on the south of the inner court. And he measured from gate to gate toward the south, a hundred cubits.
And on the day that he goes into the Holy Place, into the inner court, to minister in the Holy Place, he shall offer his sin offering, declares the Lord GOD.
Now the cherubim were standing on the south side of the house, when the man went in, and a cloud filled the inner court.
Then he brought me out to the outer court and led me around to the four corners of the court. And behold, in each corner of the court there was another court--
And when they go out into the outer court to the people, they shall put off the garments in which they have been ministering and lay them in the holy chambers. And they shall put on other garments, lest they transmit holiness to the people with their garments.
And he said to me, "This is the place where the priests shall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the grain offering, in order not to bring them out into the outer court and so transmit holiness to the people."
Then he said to them, "Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain. Go out." So they went out and struck in the city.
And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
And the altars on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars that Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, he pulled down and broke in pieces and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
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