Temple

The Temple is listed among the defining losses of exile — not just a building, but the center of Israel's entire covenant relationship with God, now destroyed.

The Philistine temple here is not the Jerusalem Temple but a pagan shrine — Saul's armor is placed there as a sacred trophy, a deliberate inversion of proper worship.

The Temple is foreshadowed here — Solomon is listed among David's sons, and the reader knows he will be the one God chooses to build it, making his birth in this passage quietly momentous.

The Temple is mentioned here as a future reality — the tent David pitched is a temporary home for the Ark, a placeholder until Solomon builds the permanent structure.

The Temple is both the proximate goal — the building Solomon will construct — and a sign pointing to something greater, since God's promise of an eternal throne ultimately transcends any physical structure.

The Temple is referenced here as the future destination of David's captured bronze — the Chronicler connecting David's military victories directly to Solomon's ability to build God's house.

The Temple is cited as one of Chronicles' primary narrative concerns — this book filters David's story through the angle of worship and the throne, not his moral failures.

The Temple is referenced here as the ultimate destination of this threshing floor — the site of David's worst failure and God's mercy becomes the permanent dwelling place of God's presence on earth.

The Temple is the driving ambition of this entire section — David envisions it as so magnificent and globally famous that he refuses to scale back his preparations simply because he won't be the one to build it.

The Temple is referenced here as the imminent reason for all this organizing — the permanent house of God whose coming changes everything about how Israel's sacred work will be structured.

The Temple is the destination this entire scheduling system is built around — every priestly division exists to staff it in an unbroken rotation across the year.

The Temple is the institution being organized here — David's entire administrative effort in this chapter exists to ensure its operations are staffed, secured, and funded properly.

The Temple is the central subject of this entire chapter — the structure God designed in detail and David spent his final years preparing for, even though he would never personally build it.

The Temple is the reason David cannot simply rest — God denied him the honor of building it, so everything David does in this chapter is preparation for a project he'll never see completed.

The Temple is referenced here as what came from Solomon — the remarkable outcome that God chose the son of David's most scandalous relationship to build his permanent dwelling place in Jerusalem.

The Temple is invoked here in its ruined state — the rebuilding of God's house is precisely why the Chronicler considers it worth recording who showed up first to the devastated city.

Pagan temples are central to the conflict here — they were Corinth's social infrastructure, and the question of whether believers could eat at their meals was the practical flashpoint driving the entire debate.

Temple is the central image here — Paul redefines it from a physical structure in Jerusalem to the gathered community of believers, in whom God's Spirit now actually dwells.

The pagan temple is the specific social setting Paul raises as a test case — if a weaker believer sees a stronger one dining there, the location itself carries enough weight to push them toward violating their own conscience.

The Temple appears here as one of the three pillars of Solomon's fame — evidence of his devotion and organizational genius that has spread his reputation to the far reaches of the known world.

The Temple is cited here to establish the full weight of Solomon's legacy before the chapter dismantles it — he built God's house on earth, which makes what follows deeply ironic.

The temple reference here establishes the institutional context being contrasted — while Hannah worships authentically, the priestly family entrusted with the temple is privately corrupt.

The Temple (here the Tabernacle sanctuary at Shiloh) is where Samuel sleeps and serves, and where the still-burning lamp signals that God's presence has not fully departed despite the spiritual darkness of the era.

Temple here refers to the pagan shrine of Ashtaroth where the Philistines displayed Saul's armor — a deliberate desecration that framed their victory as a triumph of their gods over Israel's God.

This is the temple of Dagon in Ashdod — a Philistine worship site where the Ark is installed as a war prize, and where God demonstrates his supremacy by dismantling the idol within it.

Temple prostitution is cited here as the normalized sexual practice of Thessalonian culture, the specific backdrop against which Paul calls believers to a radically different standard rooted in the indwelling Holy Spirit.

Temple is invoked here as shorthand for the entire first-century system of religious access — multiple shrines, gods, and ritual spaces that Paul contrasts with Christ's singular mediation.

The Temple is the destination of the bronze shield procession — its sacred setting makes the substitution all the more pointed, as the imitation shields parade through the house of God.

The Temple treasury is referenced here as the sacred resource Asa plunders to fund his Syrian alliance — raiding God's own house to pay for a solution that bypasses God entirely.

The Temple is the primary motivation driving everything in this chapter — Solomon's central ambition is to create a permanent, worthy house for God's name in Israel.

The Temple is the gathering place where the entire nation assembles to hear Jehoshaphat's prayer — its courtyard becomes the national crisis center, the place where the people stand before God.

The temple of Baal becomes the instrument of its own destruction — Jehu uses the sacred gathering space to concentrate every worshiper in one place, then seals the exits and orders the slaughter.

The Temple functions here as a refuge and safe house — Joash's hiding place for six years, a sanctuary that Athaliah's reach apparently could not penetrate.

The Temple appears in the introduction as both the place where Joash was hidden as a child and the structure he will dedicate his reign to repairing — making it the physical and spiritual center of this chapter.

The Temple is looted by Jehoash after his victory — all its gold, silver, and vessels seized — a devastating sacrilege that results directly from Amaziah's unjustified military provocation.

The Temple is invoked here as the future project Solomon will accomplish — establishing why his birth matters far beyond royal succession and connecting this moment to Israel's entire worship history.

The temple mount — the summit where God was worshiped — is where Hushai meets David, a brief moment of sacred ground before David sends him back down into the enemy's court.

The Temple's future location is identified here as this very threshing floor — the spot where David's sin was atoned for becomes the permanent dwelling place of God's presence among Israel.

The Temple appears here as the near-term fulfillment of God's promise — Solomon will build what David couldn't — but the passage shows this physical building is only the first layer of a much larger 'forever' covenant.

The Temple is referenced here as the setting for drink offering rituals, providing the sacrificial imagery Paul draws on to describe how completely he has given his life to God.

This temple is not Jerusalem's but a local pagan shrine to Zeus positioned at Lystra's city entrance — its priest is the one organizing the sacrificial welcome for the missionaries mistaken as gods.

Temple worship represents the entire framework of Jewish religious practice that Gentile converts have no connection to — their outsider status is what sparks the debate about requirements for belonging.

The Temple is where Paul goes to perform the purification rites alongside the four men — the very act meant to demonstrate his respect for Jewish practice that will instead trigger his arrest.

The Temple is the setting of Paul's vision — he was praying there, the holiest place in Judaism, which makes his commission from Jesus all the more significant and harder for the crowd to dismiss.

The Temple is invoked here as the site of Israel's corrupted worship — the sacred space where they brought garments seized from the poor and wine extracted as unjust fines, defiling it with the proceeds of exploitation.

The Temple appears here as the site whose worship music will be silenced — God declares that Israel's sacred songs will turn to wailing, inverting the very center of their religious life into a place of mourning.

Temple is referenced here to contrast with the kind of God Amos is describing — this is not a deity confined to a local shrine, but one whose vaulted chamber is the sky itself and whose reach spans the whole earth.

The Temple is cited alongside the Tabernacle to illustrate the old geography of divine presence — a contrast that makes the indwelling of Christ in every believer all the more staggering.

The Temple's mention here establishes what has been lost — the sacred center of Jewish worship has been violated, setting the spiritual stakes for everything that follows.

The Temple here is the target of the contemptible king's rage — his forces defile it, halt its sacrifices, and install the abomination, representing a direct assault on Israel's covenant identity.

The Temple vessels are the specific objects Belshazzar desecrated at his feast — Daniel names their origin as God's house to underscore that the sacrilege wasn't just disrespectful but a direct act of contempt toward the God who holds Belshazzar's breath in his hands.

The Temple appears here as a casualty of the prophecy's dark middle section — the sanctuary destroyed by the people of a coming prince, an event fulfilled in 70 AD that stands as one of the most verifiable fulfillments of this timeline.

The Temple here refers to the house of the Lord — the sacred space whose integrity is protected by barring not just cult prostitution but even the earnings associated with it from crossing its threshold.

The Temple's destruction is cited as the ultimate symbol of what Covenant-breaking cost Israel — God's very house on earth was razed as the curses Moses described here came true.

The Temple is contrasted here with the Tabernacle to make a point — God isn't asking for a distant shrine you visit annually, but a portable home in the middle of daily life.