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The word sanctuary means a place that often contains a temple. It is from the word miqdash[1] It is from the word qadash [2] which is translated sanctify, hallow, dedicate, holy and means "set apart".

A sanctuary should be made of living stones that are set apart, in the world but not of the world. The word qadash

The Cyrus Cylinder only mentions Mesopotamian sanctuarieswith no mention of the temple in Jerusalem, or Judea. While some Cyrus's approach historically as "the first attempt we know about running a society, a state with different nationalities and faiths – a new kind of statecraft".[3] Painting King Cyrus as a monarch with relatively enlightened approach towards cultural and religious diversity may not be fully accurate.


We should ask what is the means and method of these sanctuariesand cults for in that answer we will find what manner and mold will form the clay and souls of men.

When they tried to return from Babylon they had to unlearn the foolishness of Saul and reject the "sacrifice of fools" which was the corban of the pharisees. They had to learn what was forgotten and practice the way of righteousness. Too often the blind guides speak great swelling words while straining at gnats until the mysteries of Truth are cloaked, even hidden, through the use of sophistry.

What were they supposed to be doing with the Urim and Thummim and what was the deeper meaning of this text?

Cyrus professed a desire to restore temples and "cult sanctuaries" across Mesopotamia and the known world. It concludes with a description of how Cyrus repaired the city wall of Babylon and found a similar inscription placed there by an earlier king. It will be absolutely essential to understand that these temples were not just what people thought about Gods or Goddesses.


All these cultures had their altars, sanctuaries, and cults and while they all equally practiced their rituals and ceremonies with fervor and faith their outcomes were not all equal. They may overlap in their intent for the welfare of the people the manner of their means and method by which they were government often made a critical difference in the ends.


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  1. 04720 ^שׁדקמ^ miqdash \@mik-dawsh’\@ or ^שׁדקמ^ miqqᵉdash (#Ex 15:17) \@mik-ked-awsh’\@ from 06942; n m; AV-sanctuary 69, holy place 3, chapel 1, hallowed part 1; 74
    1) sacred place, sanctuary, holy place
    1a) sanctuary
    1a1) of the temple
    1a2) of the tabernacle
    1a3) of Ezekiel’s temple
    1a4) of Jehovah
  2. 06942 ^שׁדק^ qadash \@kaw-dash’\@ a primitive root; v; AV-sanctify 108, hallow 25, dedicate 10, holy 7, prepare 7, consecrate 5, appointed 1, bid 1, purified 1, misc 7; 172
    1) to consecrate, sanctify, prepare, dedicate, be hallowed, be holy, be sanctified, be separate
    1a) (Qal)
    1a1) to be set apart, be consecrated
    1a2) to be hallowed
    1a3) consecrated, tabooed
    1b) (Niphal)
    1b1) to show oneself sacred or majestic
    1b2) to be honoured, be treated as sacred
    1b3) to be holy
    1c) (Piel)
    1c1) to set apart as sacred, consecrate, dedicate
    1c2) to observe as holy, keep sacred
    1c3) to honour as sacred, hallow
    1c4) to consecrate
    1d) (Pual)
    1d1) to be consecrated
    1d2) consecrated, dedicated
    1e) (Hiphil)
    1e1) to set apart, devote, consecrate
    1e2) to regard or treat as sacred or hallow
    1e3) to consecrate
    1f) (Hithpael)
    1f1) to keep oneself apart or separate
    1f2) to cause Himself to be hallowed (of God)
    1f3) to be observed as holy
    1f4) to consecrate oneself
    • 06942 קָדַשׁ‎ qadash consecrate, separate; 06944 קֹדֶשׁ‎ qodesh apartness; 06945 קָדֵשׁ ‎qadesh homosexual; 06948 קְדֵשָׁה‎ qëdeshah prostitute, harlot
  3. Neil MacGregor, former Director of the British Museum.