Exodus 27:9

This is the day that Yahweh has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it!

One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.

So I have seen you in the sanctuary, watching your power and your glory.

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

He raised up the court around the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the screen of the gate of the court. So Moses finished the work.

Then he made an altar of bronze, twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high.

Furthermore he made the court of the priests, the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid their doors with bronze.

with three courses of great stones and a course of new timber. Let the expenses be given out of the king’s house.

“If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, and the holy of Yahweh honorable; and honor it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words,

He measured the length of the building before the separate place which was at its back, and its galleries on the one side and on the other side, one hundred cubits from the inner temple, and the porches of the court

choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time,

Through him, then, let’s offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

Let’s come before his presence with thanksgiving. Let’s extol him with songs!

Sing to Yahweh! Bless his name! Proclaim his salvation from day to day!

Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name. Bring an offering, and come into his courts.

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

Then your people will all be righteous. They will inherit the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.

Then he measured the width from the forefront of the lower gate to the forefront of the inner court outside, one hundred cubits, both on the east and on the north.

He brought me to the north gate, and he measured it according to these measurements;

Between the rooms was a width of twenty cubits around the house on every side.

Then he brought me by the way of the north gate before the house; and I looked, and behold, Yahweh’s glory filled Yahweh’s house; so I fell on my face.

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

The great court around had three courses of cut stone, and a course of cedar beams; like the inner court of Yahweh’s house and the porch of the house.

But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into Yahweh’s house; and the priests who kept the threshold put all the money that was brought into Yahweh’s house into it.

King Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, “On the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, the evening meal offering, the king’s burnt offering, his meal offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, their meal offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle on it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice; but the bronze altar will be for me to inquire by.”

He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of Yahweh’s house.

The king broke down the altars that were on the roof of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of Yahweh’s house, and beat them down from there, and cast their dust into the brook Kidron.

He said to me, ‘Solomon, your son, shall build my house and my courts; for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.

Now therefore, our God, we thank you, and praise your glorious name.

Yahweh, who shall dwell in your sanctuary? Who shall live on your holy hill?

I will come into your temple with burnt offerings. I will pay my vows to you,

But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.

Open to me the gates of righteousness. I will enter into them. I will give thanks to Yah.

I was glad when they said to me, “Let’s go to Yahweh’s house!”

For the sake of the house of Yahweh our God, I will seek your good.

Then Yahweh’s ransomed ones will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”

“Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch out the curtains of your habitations; don’t spare: lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes.

to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.

but those who have harvested it will eat it, and praise Yahweh. Those who have gathered it will drink it in the courts of my sanctuary.”

He brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold, a hole in the wall.

He brought me into the inner court of Yahweh’s house; and I saw at the door of Yahweh’s temple, between the porch and the altar, there were about twenty-five men, with their backs toward Yahweh’s temple, and their faces toward the east. They were worshiping the sun toward the east.

There was a gate to the inner court toward the south. He measured one hundred cubits from gate to gate toward the south.

He measured the court, one hundred cubits long, and a hundred cubits wide, square. The altar was before the house.

As for the temple, the door posts were squared. As for the face of the sanctuary, its appearance was as the appearance of the temple.

Then he brought me out into the outer court, the way toward the north. Then he brought me into the room that was opposite the separate place, and which was opposite the building toward the north.

But he answered, “Every plant which my heavenly Father didn’t plant will be uprooted.

After three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the middle of the teachers, both listening to them, and asking them questions.

I am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired servants.” ’

For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection;

But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree,

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful.

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

The hangings for the one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.

the hangings of the court, its pillars, their sockets, and the screen for the gate of the court;

the pins of the tabernacle, the pins of the court, and their cords;

He made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was outermost in the coupling, and he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which was outermost in the second coupling.

the hangings of the court, its pillars, its sockets, the screen for the gate of the court, its cords, its pins, and all the instruments of the service of the tabernacle, for the Tent of Meeting,

You shall set up the court around it, and hang up the screen of the gate of the court.

That which is left of it Aaron and his sons shall eat. It shall be eaten without yeast in a holy place. They shall eat it in the court of the Tent of Meeting.

the hangings of the court, the screen for the door of the gate of the court which is by the tabernacle and around the altar, their cords, and all the instruments of their service, and whatever shall be done with them. They shall serve in there.

If a Levite comes from any of your gates out of all Israel where he lives, and comes with all the desire of his soul to the place which Yahweh shall choose,

He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone and a course of cedar beams.

The same day the king made the middle of the court holy that was before Yahweh’s house; for there he offered the burnt offering, and the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that was before Yahweh was too little to receive the burnt offering, the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings.

but now I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’

(for Solomon had made a bronze platform, five cubits long, and five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and had set it in the middle of the court; and he stood on it, and knelt down on his knees before all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven)

He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of Yahweh’s house.

For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

They are planted in Yahweh’s house. They will flourish in our God’s courts.

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

in the courts of Yahweh’s house, in the middle of you, Jerusalem. Praise Yah!

The beams of our house are cedars. Our rafters are firs.

Your head on you is like Carmel. The hair of your head like purple. The king is held captive in its tresses.

for both prophet and priest are profane. Yes, in my house I have found their wickedness,” says Yahweh.

Then he came to the gate which looks toward the east, and went up its steps. He measured the threshold of the gate, one reed wide; and the other threshold, one reed wide.

Every lodge was one reed long and one reed wide. Between the lodges was five cubits. The threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate toward the house was one reed.

The lodges of the gate eastward were three on this side, and three on that side. The three of them were of one measure. The posts had one measure on this side and on that side.

He also made posts, sixty cubits; and the court reached to the posts, around the gate.

He measured the length and width of the gate of the outer court which faces toward the north.

There was a gate to the inner court facing the other gate, on the north and on the east. He measured one hundred cubits from gate to gate.

Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate. He measured the south gate according to these measurements;

He brought me into the inner court toward the east. He measured the gate according to these measurements;

Outside of the inner gate were rooms for the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate. They faced toward the south. One at the side of the east gate faced toward the north.

Opposite the twenty cubits which belonged to the inner court, and opposite the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in the third floor.

Then he brought me back by the way of the outer gate of the sanctuary, which looks toward the east; and it was shut.

God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.

speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;