The word in Scripture

Temple in the Bible

The word temple appears 204 times in the King James Version of the Bible. The temple was God's dwelling among His people, the meeting place of heaven and earth. And like every true word of Scripture, it finds its fullness in Jesus Christ.

What temple means in the Bible

The temple was God's dwelling among His people, the meeting place of heaven and earth.

Where the word temple appears

Here are 8 of the passages where the word temple appears, chosen from across the Scriptures, in the words of the King James Bible:

“The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD’s throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.”Psalms 11:4

“O GOD, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.”Psalms 79:1

“A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD that rendereth recompence to his enemies.”Isaiah 66:6

“And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.”Matthew 24:1

“And he taught daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy him,”Luke 19:47

“Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”John 2:19

“Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught.”John 7:14

“And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.”Revelation 21:22