He built the Upper Gate to the Lord’s temple and did a lot of work on the wall in the area known as Ophel.

In the first month of the first year of his reign, he opened the doors of the Lord’s temple and repaired them.

They assembled their brothers and consecrated themselves. Then they went in to purify the Lord’s temple, just as the king had ordered, in accordance with the word of the Lord.

Early the next morning King Hezekiah assembled the city officials and went up to the Lord’s temple.

There was a large number of burnt sacrifices, as well as fat from the peace offerings and drink offerings that accompanied the burnt sacrifices. So the service of the Lord’s temple was reinstituted.

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

Nebuchadnezzar took some of the items in the Lord’s temple to Babylon and put them in his palace there.

Deliver to the God of Jerusalem the vessels that are given to you for the service of the temple of your God.

We accept responsibility for fulfilling the commands to give one third of a shekel each year for the work of the temple of our God,

But prior to this time, Eliashib the priest, a relative of Tobiah, had been appointed over the storerooms of the temple of our God.

I was very upset, and I threw all of Tobiah’s household possessions out of the storeroom.

Then I gave instructions that the storerooms should be purified, and I brought back the equipment of the temple of God, along with the grain offering and the incense.

So I registered a complaint with the leaders, asking “Why is the temple of God neglected?” Then I gathered them and reassigned them to their positions.

Queen Vashti also gave a banquet for the women in King Ahasuerus’ royal palace.

For you say, ‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked lived?’

Kings leading armies run away – they run away! The lovely lady of the house divides up the loot.

A song of ascents, by David. I was glad because they said to me, “We will go to the Lord’s temple.”

O family of Levi, praise the Lord! You loyal followers of the Lord, praise the Lord!

I would lead you and bring you to my mother’s house, the one who taught me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the nectar of my pomegranates.

This very day, standing in Nob, they shake their fist at Daughter Zion’s mountain – at the hill of Jerusalem.