'Courts' in the Bible

And he said to me, 'Solomon your son, he himself shall build my house and my courts, for I have chosen him as a son to myself, and I myself will be as a father to him,

Blessed [is one whom] you choose and bring near, [that] he may abide in your courts. We will be satisfied with the goodness of your house, your holy temple.

Planted in the house of Yahweh, they will flourish in the courts of our God.

Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due his name; bring an offering and come into his courts.

Enter his gates with thanksgiving, his courts with praise. Give thanks to him; bless his name.

in the courts of the house of Yahweh, in the midst of you, O Jerusalem. Praise Yah!

who stand in the house of Yahweh, in the courts of the house of our God.

When you come to appear before me, who asked for this from your hand: you trampling my courts?

But those who gather it shall eat it, and they shall praise Yahweh, and those who gather it shall drink it in {my holy courts}.

And Jesus entered the temple [courts] and drove out all those who were selling and buying in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those who were selling doves.

And the blind and the lame came up to him in the temple [courts] and he healed them.

But [when] the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful [things] that he did, and the children shouting in the temple [courts] and saying, "Hosanna to the Son of David!" they were indignant.

And [as] Jesus went out of the temple [courts] he was going along, and his disciples came up to point out to him the buildings of the temple.

At that time Jesus said to the crowds, "Have you come out with swords and clubs, as against a robber, to arrest me? Every day in the temple [courts] I sat teaching, and you did not arrest me!

And they came to Jerusalem. And he entered into the temple [courts] [and] began to drive out those who were selling and those who were buying in the temple [courts], and overturned the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those who were selling doves.

And he did not permit anyone to carry objects through the temple [courts].

And they came again to Jerusalem. And [as] he was walking in the temple [courts], the chief priests and the scribes and the elders came up to him

And continuing, Jesus said [while] teaching in the temple [courts], "How can the scribes say that the Christ is David's son?

And [as] he was going out of the temple [courts], one of his disciples said to him, "Teacher, look! What great stones and what wonderful buildings!"

Every day I was with you in the temple [courts] teaching, and you did not arrest me! But [this has happened] in order that the scriptures would be fulfilled.

And it happened that after three days they found him in the temple [courts], sitting in the midst of the teachers and listening to them and asking them [questions].

And he entered into the temple [courts] [and] began to drive out those who were selling,

And he was teaching every day in the temple [courts], and the chief priests and the scribes and the most prominent men of the people were seeking to destroy him.

And it happened that on one of the days [while] he was teaching the people in the temple [courts] and proclaiming the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes approached together with the elders

So [throughout] the days he was teaching in the temple [courts], and [throughout] the nights he was going out [and] spending the night on the hill that is called [the Mount] of Olives.

And all the people were getting up very early in the morning [to come] to him in the temple [courts] to listen to him.

Every day [when] I was with you in the temple [courts], you did not stretch out [your] hands against me! But this is your hour and the domain of darkness!"

And they were {continually} in the temple [courts] praising God.

And he found in the temple [courts] those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers seated.

And he made a whip of cords [and] drove [them] all out of the temple [courts], both the sheep and the oxen, and he poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.

{Now when the feast was already half over}, Jesus went to the temple [courts] and began to teach.

Then Jesus cried out in the temple [courts], teaching and saying, "You both know me and you know where I am from! And I have not come from myself, but the one who sent me is true, whom you do not know.

Now early in the morning he came again to the temple [courts]. And all the people were coming, and he sat down [and] began to teach them.

He spoke these words by the treasury [while] teaching in the temple [courts], and no one seized him, because his hour had not yet come.

Then they picked up stones in order to throw [them] at him. But Jesus was hidden and went out of the temple [courts].

So they were looking for Jesus, and were speaking with one another [while] standing in the temple [courts], "What do you think? That he will not come to the feast?"

Jesus replied to him, "I have spoken openly to the world. I always taught in the synagogue and in the temple [courts] where all the Jews assemble, and I have said nothing in secret.

And every day, devoting themselves [to meeting] with one purpose in the temple [courts] and breaking bread from house [to house], they were eating [their] food with joy and simplicity of heart,

And a certain man was being carried who was lame {from birth}. {He} was placed every day at the gate of the temple called "Beautiful," [so that he] could ask for charitable gifts from those who were going into the temple [courts].

[When he] saw Peter and John about to go into the temple [courts], he began asking to receive alms.

And leaping up, he stood and began walking around and entered into the temple [courts] with them, walking and leaping and praising God.

"Go and stand in the temple [courts] [and] proclaim to the people all the words of this life."

And [when they] heard [this], they entered at daybreak into the temple [courts] and began teaching. Now [when] the high priest and those with him arrived, they summoned the Sanhedrin--even the whole council of elders of the sons of Israel--and sent to the prison to have them brought.

But someone came [and] reported to them, "Behold, the men whom you put in prison are standing in the temple [courts] and teaching the people!"

Every day, both in the temple [courts] and from house [to house], they did not stop teaching and proclaiming the good news [that] the Christ [was] Jesus.

Then Paul took along the men on the next day, [and] [after he] had purified himself together with them, he entered into the temple [courts], announcing the completion of the days of purification until {the time} the offering would be presented on behalf of each one of them.

But when the seven days were about to be completed, the Jews from Asia who had seen him in the temple [courts] stirred up the whole crowd and laid hands on him,

And the whole city was stirred up, and the people came running together, and they seized Paul [and] dragged him outside of the temple [courts], and immediately the doors were shut.

"And it happened that [when] I returned to Jerusalem and I was praying in the temple courts, I was in a trance,

And neither did they find me arguing with anyone or making a crowd develop in the temple [courts] nor in the synagogues nor throughout the city.

in which they found me purified in the temple [courts], not with a crowd or with a disturbance.

On account of these [things] the Jews seized me in the temple [courts] [and] were attempting to kill [me].

Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if by you the world is judged, are you unworthy of the most insignificant courts?

Therefore, if you have courts with regard to ordinary matters, do you seat these despised [people] in the church?

But you have dishonored the poor! Are not the rich exploiting you and they themselves dragging you into the courts?