Palaces
24 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
20 sections
- High
- Jerusalem Celebrated For
- Often As Punishment: Burned with Fire
- Often As Punishment: Desolate
- Often As Punishment: Forsaken
- Often As Punishment: Overgrown with Thorns
- Often As Punishment: Scenes of Bloodshed
- Often As Punishment: Spoiled
- Often As Punishment: The Habitation of Dragons
- Often the Storehouses of Rapine
- Pleasant
- Polished
- The Godly Children of Saints
- The Place of Satan's Dominion
- The Spider Makes Its Way Even Into
- The Splendour of the Church
- The Term Applied to Houses of Great Men
- The Term Applied to Residences of Kings
- The Term Applied to The House of the High Priest
- The Term Applied to The Temple of God
High
- Psalm 78:69 He built His sanctuary like the heights, like the earth He has established forever.
Jerusalem Celebrated For
- Psalm 48:3 God is in her citadels; He has shown Himself to be a fortress.
- Psalm 48:13 consider her ramparts, tour her citadels, that you may tell the next generation.
Often As Punishment: Burned with Fire
- 2 Chronicles 36:19 Then the Chaldeans set fire to the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem. They burned down all the palaces and destroyed every article of value.
- Jeremiah 17:27 But if you do not listen to Me to keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying a load while entering the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle an unquenchable fire in its gates to consume the citadels of Jerusalem.’”
Often As Punishment: Desolate
- Psalm 69:25 May their place be deserted; let there be no one to dwell in their tents.
- Ezekiel 19:7 He broke down their strongholds and devastated their cities. The land and everything in it shuddered at the sound of his roaring.
Often As Punishment: Forsaken
- Isaiah 32:14 For the palace will be forsaken, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become caves forever — the delight of wild donkeys and a pasture for flocks —
Often As Punishment: Overgrown with Thorns
- Isaiah 34:13 Her towers will be overgrown with thorns, her fortresses with thistles and briers. She will become a haunt for jackals, an abode for ostriches.
Often As Punishment: Scenes of Bloodshed
- Jeremiah 9:21 For death has climbed in through our windows; it has entered our fortresses to cut off the children from the streets, the young men from the town squares.
Often As Punishment: Spoiled
- Amos 3:11 Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: “An enemy will surround the land; he will pull down your strongholds and plunder your citadels.”
Often As Punishment: The Habitation of Dragons
- Isaiah 13:22 Hyenas will howl in her fortresses and jackals in her luxurious palaces. Babylon’s time is at hand, and her days will not be prolonged.
Often the Storehouses of Rapine
- Amos 3:10 “For they know not how to do right,” declares the LORD. “They store up violence and destruction in their citadels.”
Pleasant
- Isaiah 13:22 Hyenas will howl in her fortresses and jackals in her luxurious palaces. Babylon’s time is at hand, and her days will not be prolonged.
Polished
- Psalm 144:12 Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace.
The Godly Children of Saints
- Psalm 144:12 Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace.
The Place of Satan's Dominion
- Luke 11:21 When a strong man, fully armed, guards his house, his possessions are secure.
The Spider Makes Its Way Even Into
- Proverbs 30:28 and the lizard can be caught in one’s hands, yet it is found in the palaces of kings.
The Splendour of the Church
- Song of Solomon 8:9 If she is a wall, we will build a tower of silver upon her. If she is a door, we will enclose her with panels of cedar.
The Term Applied to Houses of Great Men
- Amos 3:9 Proclaim to the citadels of Ashdod and to the citadels of Egypt: “Assemble on the mountains of Samaria; see the great unrest in the city and the acts of oppression in her midst.”
- Micah 5:5 And He will be our peace when Assyria invades our land and tramples our citadels. We will raise against it seven shepherds, even eight leaders of men.
The Term Applied to Residences of Kings
- Daniel 4:4 I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at ease in my house and flourishing in my palace.
- Daniel 6:18 Then the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting. No entertainment was brought before him, and sleep fled from him.
The Term Applied to The House of the High Priest
- Matthew 26:58 But Peter followed Him at a distance, right up to the courtyard of the high priest. And he went in and sat down with the guards to see the outcome.
The Term Applied to The Temple of God
- 1 Chronicles 29:1 Then King David said to the whole assembly, “My son Solomon, the one whom God has chosen, is young and inexperienced. The task is great because this palace is not for man, but for the LORD God.
- 1 Chronicles 29:19 And give my son Solomon a whole heart to keep and carry out all Your commandments, decrees, and statutes, and to build Your palace for which I have made provision.”
Related topics
Palaces of KingsPalaces of Kings were Strictly GuardedPalaces were Entered by Gates
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.