Lexicon :: Strong's G3485 - naos

On one occasion, Hannah got up after they ate and drank at Shiloh.[fn] The priest Eli was sitting on a chair by the doorpost of the LORD’s temple.

Before the lamp of God had gone out, Samuel was lying down in the temple of the LORD, where the ark of God was located.

I called to the LORD in my distress;

I called to my God.

From his temple he heard my voice,

and my cry for help reached his ears.

The portico in front of the temple sanctuary was thirty feet long extending across the temple’s width, and fifteen feet deep[fn] in front of the temple.

He then built a chambered structure[fn] along the temple wall, encircling the walls of the temple, that is, the sanctuary and the inner sanctuary. And he made side chambers[fn] all around.

The temple, that is, the sanctuary in front of the most holy place,[fn] was sixty feet[fn] long.

In the same way, he made four-sided[fn] olive wood doorposts for the sanctuary entrance.

He built the inner courtyard with three rows of dressed stone and a row of trimmed cedar beams.

He set up the pillars at the portico of the sanctuary: he set up the right pillar and named it Jachin;[fn] then he set up the left pillar and named it Boaz.[fn]

the pure gold ceremonial bowls, wick trimmers, sprinkling basins, ladles,[fn] and firepans; and the gold hinges for the doors of the inner temple (that is, the most holy place) and for the doors of the temple sanctuary.

At that time Hezekiah stripped the gold from the doors of the LORD’s sanctuary and from the doorposts he had overlaid and gave it to the king of Assyria.

Then the king commanded the high priest Hilkiah and the priests of the second rank and the doorkeepers to bring out of the LORD’s sanctuary all the articles made for Baal, Asherah, and all the stars in the sky. He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.

He also carried off from there all the treasures of the LORD’s temple and the treasures of the king’s palace, and he cut into pieces all the gold articles that King Solomon of Israel had made for the LORD’s sanctuary, just as the LORD had predicted.

Then David gave his son Solomon the plans for the portico of the temple and its buildings, treasuries, upstairs rooms, inner rooms, and a room for the mercy seat.

Then he set up the pillars in front of the sanctuary, one on the right and one on the left. He named the one on the right Jachin[fn] and the one on the left Boaz.[fn]

He made the ten gold lampstands according to their specifications and put them in the sanctuary, five on the right and five on the left.

the wick trimmers, sprinkling basins, ladles,[fn] and firepans ​— ​of purest gold; and the entryway to the temple, its inner doors to the most holy place, and the doors of the temple sanctuary ​— ​of gold.

At that time Solomon offered burnt offerings to the LORD on the LORD’s altar he had made in front of the portico.

When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Azariah son of Oded the prophet, he took courage and removed the abhorrent idols from the whole land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had captured in the hill country of Ephraim. He renovated the altar of the LORD that was in front of the portico of the LORD’s temple.

But when he became strong, he grew arrogant, and it led to his own destruction. He acted unfaithfully against the LORD his God by going into the LORD’s sanctuary to burn incense on the incense altar.

Uzziah, with a firepan in his hand to offer incense, was enraged. But when he became enraged with the priests, in the presence of the priests in the LORD’s temple beside the altar of incense, a skin disease broke out on his forehead.

He did what was right in the LORD’s sight just as his father Uzziah had done. In addition, he didn’t enter the LORD’s sanctuary, but the people still behaved corruptly.

“They also closed the doors of the portico, extinguished the lamps, did not burn incense, and did not offer burnt offerings in the holy place of the God of Israel.

They began the consecration on the first day of the first month, and on the eighth day of the month they came to the portico of the LORD’s temple. They consecrated the LORD’s temple for eight days, and on the sixteenth day of the first month they finished.

Also Nebuchadnezzar took some of the articles of the LORD’s temple to Babylon and put them in his temple in Babylon.

He also took from the temple in Babylon the gold and silver articles of God’s house that Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple in Jerusalem and carried them to the temple in Babylon. He released them from the temple in Babylon to a man named Sheshbazzar, the governor by the appointment of King Cyrus.

The gold and silver articles of God’s house that Nebuchadnezzar took from the temple in Jerusalem and carried to Babylon must also be returned. They are to be brought to the temple in Jerusalem where they belong[fn] and put into the house of God.

But I enter your house

by the abundance of your faithful love;

I bow down toward your holy temple

in reverential awe of you.

The LORD is in his holy temple;

the LORD ​— ​his throne is in heaven.

His eyes watch;

his gaze[fn] examines everyone.[fn]

I called to the LORD in my distress,

and I cried to my God for help.

From his temple he heard my voice,

and my cry to him reached his ears.

I have asked one thing from the LORD;

it is what I desire:

to dwell in the house of the LORD

all the days of my life,

gazing on the beauty of the LORD

and seeking him in his temple.

Listen to the sound of my pleading

when I cry to you for help,

when I lift up my hands

toward your holy sanctuary.

The voice of the LORD makes the deer give birth[fn]

and strips the woodlands bare.

In his temple all cry, “Glory! ”

They are led in with gladness and rejoicing;

they enter the king’s palace.

God, within your temple,

we contemplate your faithful love.

How happy is the one you choose

and bring near to live in your courts!

We will be satisfied with the goodness of your house,

the holiness of your temple.[fn]

Because of your temple at Jerusalem,

kings will bring tribute to you.

God, the nations have invaded your inheritance,

desecrated your holy temple,

and turned Jerusalem into ruins.

I will bow down toward your holy temple

and give thanks to your name

for your constant love and truth.

You have exalted your name

and your promise above everything else.[fn]

Then our sons will be like plants

nurtured in their youth,

our daughters, like corner pillars

that are carved in the palace style.

A sound of uproar from the city!

A voice from the temple —

the voice of the LORD,

paying back his enemies what they deserve!

“Do not trust deceitful words, chanting, “This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.”

After King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had deported Jeconiah[fn] son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, the officials of Judah, and the craftsmen and metalsmiths from Jerusalem and had brought them to Babylon, the LORD showed me two baskets of figs placed in front of the temple of the LORD.

This is what the LORD says:

I will certainly restore the fortunes[fn] of Jacob’s tents

and show compassion on his dwellings.

Every city will be rebuilt on its mound;

every citadel will stand on its proper site.

So he brought me to the inner court of the LORD’s house, and there were about twenty-five men at the entrance of the LORD’s temple, between the portico and the altar, with their backs to the LORD’s temple and their faces turned to the east. They were bowing to the east in worship of the sun.

Next he brought me into the great hall and measured the jambs; on each side the width of the jamb was 10 ¹/₂ feet.[fn][fn]

He then measured the length of the room adjacent to the great hall, 35 feet, and the width, 35 feet. And he said to me, “This is the most holy place.”

Next he measured the length of the building facing the temple yard to the west, with its galleries[fn] on each side; it was 175 feet.

The interior of the great hall and the porticoes of the court ​— ​

The doorposts of the great hall were square, and the front of the sanctuary had the same appearance.