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HEBREW PARALLELISM MAKES TEMPLE AND CITY ONE

14/2/2018

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Picture: ancient Jerusalem

God has always desired to dwell in the midst of His people. The Tabernacle was at the center of the camp of Israel and God said “and let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell in their midst” (Exodus 25:8 ESV).

When the House for His dwelling was made permanent, it too, was in the midst of the people; that is, within the City of David (not on a prominence to its north).
You can see this expressed in the following examples of Hebrew parallelism in your Bible:

Isaiah 66:6—'A voice of uproar from the city, a voice from the temple, The voice of the LORD who is rendering recompense to His enemies’ (NASV).  The 1917 Jewish JPS Tanakh renders it ‘Hark! an uproar from the city, Hark! it cometh from the temple, Hark! the LORD rendereth recompense to His enemies.’ OR, look at

Psalm 20:2 ‘May He send you help from the sanctuary, and strengthen you out of Zion.’

Quite clearly the 'sanctuary' (temple) was viewed as being one with the city and inseparable from it. It stood in the midst of the old City of David (also known as Zion), as its heart. God in the midst of the people.


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SOLOMON’S TEMPLE WAS SURROUNDED BY CITY STREETS! (See Lamentations 4:1)

5/2/2018

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Jeremiah's eyewitness lament was, 'the stones of the sanctuary are scattered at the top of every street.' The Hebrew word CHUTS or KHOOTS, translated street, means that which is immediately outside the bounds of a house. He is speaking of residential streets, so the temple must have stood in Zion (in the City of David) surrounded by streets with houses—not out of town to the north on so-called Temple Mount.
Read ‘THE PLACE HaMakom: where Jerusalem’s temples stood’ available now at
http://wipfandstock.com/the-place.html

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LIVING WATER AT THE TEMPLE (Located in the ancient City of David)

4/2/2018

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The temple of Solomon and the later Jerusalem temples had to have a source of living water. Otherwise they could not truly typify the throne of God. Since the temples had every other item that typified His presence—the ark with His Law-word and the representation of the cherubim; the curtain, the altar of incense, the bread of His presence, the menorah—why would it not have the stream of life that is said to flow from His presence? Of course it did; supplied by that powerful spring, Gihon, located at Ha Makom (The Place) visited by Abraham and Isaac, Jacob and David and spoken of by the prophets (Jeremiah mentions Ha  Makom some 15 times!). The temple was in the ancient City of David in the area shown by the yellow line just near the Gihon Spring. Read the biblical history of Ha Makom, available here https://wipfandstock.com/the-place.html

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