to attach to settings in the stories of the Bible. When King Hezekiah received a threatening letter from the Assyrian king Sennacherib, he took the letter to “the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD” (Isa. 37:14). Hezekiah could have spread the letter before God anywhere, so we need to explore what was special about the temple, and as we do so, we are led to explore what the temple symbolized or represented to the Old Testament believer. To sum up, at an interpretive level, settings