Results for “Court of the Gentiles”
Encyclopedia article
Court of the Gentiles
The Court of the Gentiles was the large outermost court of the Jerusalem temple as enlarged by Herod, a space that non-Jews were also permitted to enter. It is commonly understood to be the site where Jesus cleansed the temple.
Articles 115, showing 20
- Zechariah (Son of Jehoiada)People
Zechariah, son of the priest Jehoiada, lived during the reign of Joash, king of Judah. He rebuked the people for idolatry and, at the king's command, was stoned to death in the court of the temple (2 Chronicles 24).
- Persecution of Catholics in JoseonHistory
The persecution of Catholics in Joseon was a series of events from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth century in which the court of the Joseon dynasty in Korea executed and suppressed Catholic believers. The Sinyu, Gihae, Byeong-o, and Byeongin persecutions are commonly called the Four Great Persecutions.
- EutychesPeople
Eutyches (c. 380–after 454) was an archimandrite (abbot) in Constantinople. He taught that in Christ the divine and human natures were united into a single nature, and he was condemned at the Council of Chalcedon in 451.
- Solomon's PorchBible
Solomon's Porch was a roofed colonnade along the outer court of the Jerusalem Temple in New Testament times. Scripture presents it as the place where Jesus walked during the Feast of Dedication and where the believers of the early church gathered.
- ApologeticsDoctrine & Theology
Apologetics is a branch of theology that explains why the Christian faith is true and reasonable and responds to criticisms of and questions about the faith.
- Bronze SeaBible
The Bronze Sea was a large basin cast in bronze that Solomon placed in the court of the temple in Jerusalem. It rested on twelve bronze oxen and was used by the priests for washing.
- Nergal-sharezerPeople
Nergal-sharezer was a Babylonian official mentioned in Jeremiah 39. When Jerusalem fell, he sat in the middle gate of the city, and he took part in releasing Jeremiah, who had been confined in the court of the prison.
- Jeremiah 33Bible
Jeremiah 33 contains a promise of restoration given to Jeremiah while he was confined in the court of the guard. It speaks of the healing of Jerusalem, the return of the captives, a "Branch of righteousness" who will spring from David, and the promise that the covenant with David and with the Levitical priests will not be broken.
- Nathan (Prophet)People
Nathan was a prophet of Israel during the reigns of King David and King Solomon. He delivered the promise that David's dynasty would endure forever, used a parable to confront David with his sin after the Bathsheba affair, and played a part in Solomon's accession to the throne.
- Exodus 38Bible
Exodus 38 records Bezalel's construction of the tabernacle's altar of burnt offering, the bronze laver, and the court, and it includes an inventory tallying the amounts of gold, silver, and bronze used in building the tabernacle.
- Jeremiah 39Bible
Jeremiah 39 records the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonian army, the capture of King Zedekiah, the release of Jeremiah, and the promise of deliverance given to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian.
- Esther 1Bible
The first chapter of the Book of Esther, in which King Ahasuerus of Persia holds a great feast in the palace at Shushan and issues a decree deposing Queen Vashti after she refuses his summons.
- Jeremiah 38Bible
Jeremiah 38 recounts how, near the end of the siege of Jerusalem, the princes cast Jeremiah into a miry cistern, Ebed-melech the Cushite rescues him, and King Zedekiah secretly summons him and hears the word urging him to surrender.
- Psalm 50Bible
Psalm 50 bears the superscription "A Psalm of Asaph." In it God, acting as judge, summons his people, rebukes merely formal sacrifice and hypocritical living, and calls for the sacrifice of thanksgiving and upright conduct.
- Hosea 4Bible
Hosea 4 is the chapter in which the LORD brings charges against the people and priests of the northern kingdom of Israel. It pronounces judgment on the sin and idolatry that arose from their lack of the knowledge of God.
- Esther 5Bible
Esther 5 recounts how, on the third day, Esther approaches the king unsummoned, obtains his favor, and invites the king and Haman to a banquet. It also describes how Haman, enraged at Mordecai, has a gallows built on which to hang him.
- Hampton Court ConferenceHistory
The Hampton Court Conference was a meeting held in January 1604 at Hampton Court Palace, at which King James I of England summoned bishops of the Church of England and Puritan representatives to discuss demands for church reform. It gave rise to the translation of the King James Bible.
- Jeremiah 33:3Bible Verses
Jeremiah 33:3 contains the divine promise "Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not." Interpreters differ over the meaning of the "great and mighty things." In Korean Protestant churches the verse is widely used as the representative text for crying-out prayer and audible, unison prayer (tongseong gido).
- Jeremiah 33:6–9Bible Verses
Jeremiah 33:6–9 is a passage in which God promises to heal Jerusalem, then besieged by Babylon and on the verge of collapse, to bring back its captives, and to forgive its sins. Because it contains promises of restoration and forgiveness, it is frequently cited in sermons on healing and restoration.