in the courts of the Lord’s temple, in your midst, O Jerusalem. Praise the Lord!

Planted in the Lord’s house, they grow in the courts of our God.

who serve ¹  in the Lord’s temple, in the courts of the temple of our God.

Ascribe to the Lord the splendor he deserves! ¹  Bring an offering and enter his courts!

When you enter my presence, do you actually think I want this – animals trampling on my courtyards? ¹ 

In the four corners of the court were small ¹  courts, 70 feet ²  in length and 52½ feet ³  in width; the four were all the same size.

In the two courtyards of the Lord’s temple he built altars for all the stars in the sky.

In the two courtyards of the Lord’s temple he built altars for all the stars in the sky.

I desperately want to be ¹  in the courts of the Lord’s temple. ²  My heart and my entire being ³  shout for joy to the living God.

Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give him thanks! Praise his name!

He said to them, “Defile the temple and fill the courtyards with corpses. Go!” So they went out and struck people down throughout the city.

He said to me, ‘Solomon your son is the one who will build my temple and my courts, for I have chosen him to become my son and I will become his father.

and I returned to Jerusalem. Then I discovered the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah by supplying him with a storeroom in the courts of the temple of God.

How blessed ¹  is the one whom you choose, and allow to live in your palace courts. ²  May we be satisfied with the good things of your house – your holy palace. ³ 

Certainly ¹  spending just one day in your temple courts is better than spending a thousand elsewhere. ²  I would rather stand at the entrance ³  to the temple of my God than live ⁴  in the tents of the wicked.

There was a row of masonry around each of the four courts, and places for boiling offerings were made under the rows all around.

He gave him ¹  the blueprints of all he envisioned ²  for the courts of the Lord’s temple, all the surrounding rooms, the storehouses of God’s temple, and the storehouses for the holy items.

But those who harvest the grain ¹  will eat it, and will praise the Lord. Those who pick the grapes will drink the wine ²  in the courts of my holy sanctuary.”

If then Demetrius and the craftsmen who are with him have a complaint ¹  against someone, the courts are open ²  and there are proconsuls; let them bring charges against one another there. ³ 

So the people went out and brought these things ¹  back and constructed temporary shelters for themselves, each on his roof and in his courtyard and in the courtyards of the temple ²  of God and in the plaza of the Water Gate and the plaza of the Ephraim Gate.