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Then the devil took him to the holy city, Jerusalem, to the highest point of the Temple,

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Then the devil took him to Jerusalem, to the highest point of the Temple, and said, “If you are the Son of God, jump off!

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But do not measure the outer courtyard, for it has been turned over to the nations. They will trample the holy city for 42 months.

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53 They left the cemetery after Jesus’ resurrection, went into the holy city of Jerusalem, and appeared to many people.

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Deliverance for Jerusalem

52 Wake up, wake up, O Zion!
    Clothe yourself with strength.
Put on your beautiful clothes, O holy city of Jerusalem,
    for unclean and godless people will enter your gates no longer.

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    even though you call yourself the holy city
and talk about depending on the God of Israel,
    whose name is the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.

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11 Then Jesus said, “You would have no power over me at all unless it were given to you from above. So the one who handed me over to you has the greater sin.”

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24 “A period of seventy sets of seven[a] has been decreed for your people and your holy city to finish their rebellion, to put an end to their sin, to atone for their guilt, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to confirm the prophetic vision, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 9:24a Hebrew seventy sevens.
  2. 9:24b Or the Most Holy One.

16 In view of all your faithful mercies, Lord, please turn your furious anger away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain. All the neighboring nations mock Jerusalem and your people because of our sins and the sins of our ancestors.

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18 In all, there were 284 Levites in the holy city.

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The People Occupy Jerusalem

11 The leaders of the people were living in Jerusalem, the holy city. A tenth of the people from the other towns of Judah and Benjamin were chosen by sacred lots to live there, too, while the rest stayed where they were.

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The entry room at the front of the Temple was 30 feet[a] wide, running across the entire width of the Temple, and 30 feet[b] high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold.

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Footnotes

  1. 3:4a Hebrew 20 cubits [9.2 meters]; also in 3:8, 11, 13.
  2. 3:4b As in some Greek and Syriac manuscripts, which read 20 cubits [9.2 meters]; Hebrew reads 120 [cubits], which is 180 feet or 55 meters.

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