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Enter the house.
Follow the story.

A sanctuary described in Kings. A monumental setting for the Gospels. A prophet’s vision that flows into living water. Explore each on its own terms.

Text-based reconstruction

Solomon’s Temple

Stone outside. Gold, palms and winged figures within. Open the sanctuary and follow its imagery back to the text.

63 second filmOptional 3D study
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Historical reconstruction

Herod’s Temple

A monumental house within a sequence of courts. Explore the spaces behind the Gospel encounters.

37 second filmOptional 3D study
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Vision illustrated from the text

Ezekiel’s Temple vision

Walk through the prophet’s ordered sanctuary, then follow the water beyond its walls.

66 second filmOptional 3D study
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Read the differences

A shared theme.
Three distinct studies.

The films offer three ways into the texts, with interactive models for a closer look. Ezekiel’s vision is presented on its own terms, rather than as the next completed building in a timeline.

Sources, focus and inner-room differences across the Temple studies
StudyBegin withNotice inside
Solomon1 Kings 6–8
2 Chronicles 3–4
The ark beneath the great cherubim
HerodJosephus, Jewish War 5
Mishnah Middot & Yoma
An inner room without the ark
EzekielEzekiel 40–48Measured rooms and water flowing outward
Before the Temple

A dwelling on the move.

Return to the circular Tabernacle study and compare familiar objects, materials and questions of access.

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