Leviticus 26:11
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11 I will place my dwelling in your midst, and I shall not abhor you.(A)
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Exodus 25:8
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8 And they shall make me a sanctuary so that I may dwell among them.(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.
Exodus 29:45
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45 I will dwell among the Israelites, and I will be their God.(A)
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Ephesians 2:22
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22 in whom you also are built together spiritually[a] into a dwelling place for God.
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- 2.22 Gk in the Spirit
Psalm 106:40
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40 Then the anger of the Lord was kindled against his people,
and he abhorred his heritage;(A)
Psalm 76:2
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2 His abode has been established in Salem,
his dwelling place in Zion.(A)
Leviticus 20:23
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23 You shall not follow the practices of the nation that I am driving out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them.(A)
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Ezekiel 37:26-28
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26 I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them, and I will bless[a] them and multiply them and will set my sanctuary among them forevermore.(A) 27 My dwelling place shall be over them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.(B) 28 Then the nations shall know that I the Lord sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary is among them forevermore.”(C)
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- 37.26 Tg: Heb give
1 Kings 8:27
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27 “But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Even heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you, much less this house that I have built!(A)
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1 Kings 8:13
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13 I have built you an exalted house,
a place for you to dwell forever.”(A)
Joshua 22:19
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19 But now, if your land is unclean, cross over into the Lord’s land, where the Lord’s tabernacle now stands, and take for yourselves a possession among us; only do not rebel against the Lord or rebel against us[a] by building yourselves an altar other than the altar of the Lord our God.(A)
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- 22.19 Or make rebels of us
Lamentations 2:7
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7 The Lord has scorned his altar,
disowned his sanctuary;
he has delivered into the hand of the enemy
the walls of her palaces;
a clamor was raised in the house of the Lord
as on a day of festival.(A)
Jeremiah 14:21
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21 Do not spurn us, for your name’s sake;
do not dishonor your glorious throne;
remember and do not break your covenant with us.(A)
Deuteronomy 32:19
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Zechariah 11:8
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8 In one month I disposed of the three shepherds, for I had become impatient with them, and they also detested me.(A)
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Psalm 78:68-69
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68 but he chose the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion, which he loves.(A)
69 He built his sanctuary like the high heavens,
like the earth, which he has founded forever.(B)
Psalm 78:59
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59 When God heard, he was full of wrath,
and he utterly rejected Israel.
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