Verse 8

Go up to the hill country and bring back timber to build the temple. Then I will be pleased and honored,’ says the LORD.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 132:13-14 : 13 Certainly the LORD has chosen Zion; he decided to make it his home. 14 He said,“This will be my resting place forever; I will live here, for I have chosen it.
  • Hag 2:7 : 7 I will also shake up all the nations, and they will offer their treasures; then I will fill this temple with glory.” So the LORD of Heaven’s Armies has said.
  • Hag 2:9 : 9 “The future splendor of this temple will be greater than that of former times,” the LORD of Heaven’s Armies has declared.“And in this place I will give peace,” decrees the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.”
  • Zech 11:1-2 : 1 The History and Future of Judah’s Wicked Kings Open your gates, Lebanon, so that the fire may consume your cedars. 2 Howl, fir tree, because the cedar has fallen; the majestic trees have been destroyed. Howl, oaks of Bashan, because the impenetrable forest has fallen.
  • Matt 3:8-9 : 8 Therefore produce fruit that proves your repentance, 9 and don’t think you can say to yourselves,‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!
  • John 13:31-32 : 31 The Prediction of Peter’s Denial When Judas had gone out, Jesus said,“Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in him. 32 If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him right away.
  • Isa 60:7 : 7 All the sheep of Kedar will be gathered to you; the rams of Nebaioth will be available to you as sacrifices. They will go up on my altar acceptably, and I will bestow honor on my majestic temple.
  • Isa 60:13 : 13 The splendor of Lebanon will come to you, its evergreens, firs, and cypresses together, to beautify my palace; I will bestow honor on my throne room.
  • Isa 66:11 : 11 For you will nurse from her satisfying breasts and be nourished; you will feed with joy from her milk-filled breasts.
  • Jonah 3:1-2 : 1 The People of Nineveh Respond to Jonah’s Warning The LORD’s message came to Jonah a second time, 2 “Go immediately to Nineveh, that large city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you.”
  • Hag 1:2-4 : 2 The Indifference of the People This is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies has said:“These people have said,‘The time for rebuilding the LORD’s temple has not yet come.’” 3 The LORD’s message came through the prophet Haggai as follows: 4 “Is it right for you to live in richly paneled houses while my temple is in ruins?
  • Exod 29:43 : 43 There I will meet with the Israelites, and it will be set apart as holy by my glory.
  • 1 Kgs 9:3 : 3 The LORD said to him,“I have answered your prayer and your request for help that you made to me. I have consecrated this temple you built by making it my permanent home; I will be constantly present there.
  • 2 Chr 2:8-9 : 8 Send me cedars, evergreens, and algum trees from Lebanon, for I know your servants are adept at cutting down trees in Lebanon. My servants will work with your servants 9 to supply me with large quantities of timber, for I am building a great, magnificent temple. 10 Look, I will pay your servants who cut the timber 20,000 cors of ground wheat, 20,000 cors of barley, 120,000 gallons of wine, and 120,000 gallons of olive oil.”
  • 2 Chr 7:16 : 16 Now I have chosen and consecrated this temple by making it my permanent home; I will be constantly present there.
  • Ezra 3:7 : 7 Preparations for Rebuilding the Temple So they provided money for the masons and carpenters, and food, beverages, and olive oil for the people of Sidon and Tyre, so that they would bring cedar timber from Lebanon to the seaport at Joppa, in accord with the edict of King Cyrus of Persia.
  • Ezra 6:4 : 4 with three layers of large stones and one layer of timber. The expense is to be subsidized by the royal treasury.
  • Ps 87:2-3 : 2 The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwelling places of Jacob. 3 People say wonderful things about you, O city of God.(Selah)