Bible Concordances
Temple, the Second

Torrey's Topical Textbook

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

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

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

• Materials for building procured from Tyre and Sidon
  Ezra 3:7

• Foundation of, laid the second month of second year after the Captivity
  Ezra 3:8

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

• Its dimensions
  Ezra 6:3,4

• Grief of those who had seen the first temple
  Ezra 3:12; Haggai 2:3

• Joy of those who had not seen the first temple
  Ezra 3:13

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

• The Jews reproved for not building
  Haggai 1:1-5

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

• The Jews encouraged to proceed in building
  Haggai 1:8; 2:19; Zechariah 8:9

• Resumed by Zerubbabel and Jeshua
  Ezra 5:2

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

• Future glory of, predicted
  Haggai 2:7-9

• Tatnai the governor wrote to Darius to know if the building Had his sanction
  Ezra 5:3-17

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

• Finished the third of the twelfth month in the sixth year of Darius
  Ezra 6:15

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

• Repaired and beautified by Herod, which occupied forty-six Years
  John 2:20

• The magnificence of its building and ornaments
  John 2:20; Mark 13:1; Luke 21:5

• Beautiful gate of, mentioned
  Acts 3:2

• Solomon's porch connected with
  John 10:23; Acts 3:11

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

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

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

• THE JEWS
  • Prayed without, while the priest offered incense within
    Luke 1:10; 18:10
  • Considered it blasphemy to speak against
    Matthew 26:61; Acts 6:13; 21:28
  • Desecrated by selling oxen, &c in
    John 2:14

• Desecration of, foretold
  Daniel 9:27; 11:31

• Cleansed and rededicated by Judas Maccabaeus after its Desecration by Antiochus Epiphanes
  John 10:22

• Desecrated by the Romans
  Daniel 9:27; Matthew 24:15