Temple & Tabernacle Verses
The sacred design, offerings, feasts, and rituals that reveal the holiness of God and His dwelling among men.
The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.
As a piece of a pomegranate {are} thy temples within thy locks.
To what purpose {is} the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. {he goats: Heb. great he goats}
Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; {it is} iniquity, even the solemn meeting. {iniquity: or, grief}
The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.
And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.
In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. {his...: or, the skirts thereof}
Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, {which} he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: {having...: Heb. and in his hand a live coal}
And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness. {established: or, prepared}
And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail.