Haggai 1:8
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8 Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be honored, says the Lord.(A)
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Psalm 132:13-14
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13 For the Lord has chosen Zion;
he has desired it for his habitation:(A)
14 “This is my resting place forever;
here I will reside, for I have desired it.
Haggai 2:7
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7 and I will shake all the nations, so that the treasure of all nations will come, and I will fill this house with splendor, says the Lord of hosts.(A)
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Haggai 1:2-4
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2 “Thus says the Lord of hosts: These people say the time has not yet come to rebuild the Lord’s house.” 3 Then the word of the Lord came by the prophet Haggai, saying: 4 “Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?(A)
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Jonah 3:1-2
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Conversion of Nineveh
3 The word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time, saying,(A) 2 “Get up, go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you.”
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Ezra 3:7
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7 So they gave money to the masons and the carpenters, and food, drink, and oil to the Sidonians and the Tyrians to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the grant that they had from King Cyrus of Persia.(A)
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2 Chronicles 7:16
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16 For now I have chosen and consecrated this house so that my name may be there forever; my eyes and my heart will be there for all time.(A)
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2 Chronicles 2:8-10
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8 Send me also cedar, cypress, and algum timber from Lebanon, for I know that your servants are skilled in cutting Lebanon timber. My servants will work with your servants(A) 9 to prepare timber for me in abundance, for the house I am about to build will be great and wonderful. 10 I will provide for your servants, those who cut the timber, twenty thousand cors of crushed wheat, twenty thousand cors of barley, twenty thousand baths[a] of wine, and twenty thousand baths[b] of oil.”(B)
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1 Kings 9:3
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3 The Lord said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your plea that you made before me; I have consecrated this house that you have built and put my name there forever; my eyes and my heart will be there for all time.(A)
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Exodus 29:43
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43 I will meet with the Israelites there, and it shall be sanctified by my glory;(A)
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John 13:31-32
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The New Commandment
31 When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him.(A) 32 If God has been glorified in him,[a] God will also glorify him in himself and will glorify him at once.
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- 13.32 Other ancient authorities lack If God has been glorified in him
Matthew 3:8-9
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8 Therefore, bear fruit worthy of repentance,(A) 9 and do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our ancestor,’ for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham.(B)
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Zechariah 11:1-2
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11 Open your doors, O Lebanon,
so that fire may devour your cedars!(A)
2 Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen,
for the glorious trees are ruined!
Wail, oaks of Bashan,
for the thick forest has been felled!(B)
Haggai 2:9
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9 The latter splendor of this house shall be greater than the former, says the Lord of hosts, and in this place I will give prosperity, says the Lord of hosts.”(A)
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Isaiah 66:11
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11 that you may nurse and be satisfied
from her consoling breast,
that you may drink deeply with delight
from her glorious bosom.(A)
Isaiah 60:13
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13 The glory of Lebanon shall come to you,
the cypress, the plane, and the pine,
to beautify the place of my sanctuary,
and I will glorify where my feet rest.(A)
Isaiah 60:7
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7 All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered to you;
the rams of Nebaioth shall minister to you;
they shall be acceptable on my altar,[a]
and I will glorify my glorious house.(A)
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- 60.7 Q ms Heb mss Gk Syr Tg: MT will ascend on the favor of my altar
Psalm 87:2-3
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2 the Lord loves the gates of Zion
more than all the dwellings of Jacob.(A)
3 Glorious things are spoken of you,
O city of God. Selah(B)
Ezra 6:4
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4 with three courses of hewn stones and one course of timber; let the cost be paid from the royal treasury.(A)
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