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Temple, The Second

Built on the site of the first temple - Ezr 6:2-12

CYRUS

• His decree for building, predicted
- Isa 44:28
• Gave a decree for building, in the first year of his reign
- Ezr 1:1,2; 6:3
• Gave permission to the Jews to go to Jerusalem to build
- Ezr 1:3
• Furnished means for building
- Ezr 6:4
• Ordered those who remained in Babylon to contribute to the
building of - Ezr 1:4
• Gave the vessels of the first temple for
- Ezr 1:7-11; 6:5

Divine worship commenced before the foundation was laid - Ezr 3:1-6

Materials for building procured from Tyre and Sidon - Ezr 3:7

Foundation of, laid the second month of second year after the captivity - Ezr 3:8

Solemnities connected with laying the foundation of - Ezr 3:9-11

Its dimensions - Ezr 6:3,4

Grief of those who had seen the first temple - Ezr 3:12; Hag 2:3

Joy of those who had not seen the first temple - Ezr 3:13

THE SAMARITANS

• Proposed to assist in building
- Ezr 4:1,2
• Their help refused by the Jews
- Ezr 4:3
• Weakened the hands of the Jews in building
- Ezr 4:4,5
• Wrote to Artaxerxes Smerdis to interrupt the building
- Ezr 4:6-16
• Procured its interruption for fifteen years
- Ezr 4:24

The Jews reproved for not building - Hag 1:1-5

The Jews punished for not persevering in building - Hag 1:6,9-11; 2:15,17; Zec 8:10

The Jews encouraged to proceed in building - Hag 1:8; 2:19; Zec 8:9

Resumed by Zerubbabel and Jeshua - Ezr 5:2

Its completion by Zerubbabel foretold, to encourage the Jews - Zec 4:4-10

Future glory of, predicted - Hag 2:7-9

Tatnai the governor wrote to Darius to know if the building had his sanction - Ezr 5:3-17

The decree of Cyrus found and confirmed by Darius - Ezr 6:1,2,6-12

Finished the third of the twelfth month in the sixth year of Darius - Ezr 6:15

Dedication of, celebrated with joy and thankfulness - Ezr 6:16-18

Repaired and beautified by Herod, which occupied forty-six years - Joh 2:20

The magnificence of its building and ornaments - Joh 2:20; Mr 13:1; Lu 21:5

Beautiful gate of, mentioned - Ac 3:2

Solomon's porch connected with - Joh 10:23; Ac 3:11

CHRIST

• To appear in
- Hag 2:7; Mal 3:1
• Presented in
- Lu 2:22,27
• Miraculously transported to a pinnacle of
- Mt 4:5; Lu 4:9
• Frequently taught in
- Mr 14:49
• Purified, and the commencement of his ministry
- Joh 2:15-17
• Purified, at the close of his ministry
- Mt 21:12,13
• Predicted its destruction
- Mt 24:2; Mr 13:2; Lu 21:6
• The vail of, rent at our Lord's death
- Mt 27:51

Separation between the outer or Gentile court and that of the Jews alluded to - Eph 2:13,14

No Gentile allowed to enter the inner courts of - Ac 21:27-30

THE JEWS

• Prayed without, while the priest offered incense within
- Lu 1:10; 18:10
• Considered it blasphemy to speak against
- Mt 26:61; Ac 6:13; 21:28
• Desecrated by selling oxen, &c in
- Joh 2:14

Desecration of, foretold - Da 9:27; 11:31

Cleansed and rededicated by Judas Maccabaeus after its desecration by Antiochus Epiphanes - Joh 10:22

Desecrated by the Romans - Da 9:27; Mt 24:15

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