Lord, (A)I have loved the habitation of Your house,
And the place [a]where Your glory dwells.

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  1. Psalm 26:8 Lit. of the tabernacle of Your glory

14 (A)And He found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers [a]doing business. 15 When He had made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the changers’ money and overturned the tables. 16 And He said to those who sold doves, “Take these things away! Do not make (B)My Father’s house a house of merchandise!” 17 Then His disciples remembered that it was written, (C)“Zeal for Your house [b]has eaten Me up.”

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  1. John 2:14 Lit. sitting
  2. John 2:17 NU, M will eat

(A)One thing I have desired of the Lord,
That will I seek:
That I may (B)dwell in the house of the Lord
All the days of my life,
To behold the [a]beauty of the Lord,
And to inquire in His temple.
For (C)in the time of trouble
He shall hide me in His pavilion;
In the secret place of His tabernacle
He shall hide me;
He shall (D)set me high upon a rock.

And now (E)my head shall be [b]lifted up above my enemies all around me;
Therefore I will offer sacrifices of [c]joy in His tabernacle;
I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the Lord.

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  1. Psalm 27:4 delightfulness
  2. Psalm 27:6 Lifted up in honor
  3. Psalm 27:6 joyous shouts

49 And He said to them, “Why did you seek Me? Did you not know that I must be (A)about (B)My Father’s business?”

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46 Now so it was that after three days they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them and asking them questions.

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22 And (A)Hezekiah had said, “What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord?”

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20 “The Lord was ready to save me;
Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments
All the days of our life, in the house of the Lord.”

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Because of the house of the Lord our God
I will (A)seek your good.

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10 For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand.
I would rather [a]be a doorkeeper in the house of my God
Than dwell in the tents of wickedness.

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  1. Psalm 84:10 stand at the threshold

The Blessedness of Dwelling in the House of God

To the Chief Musician. (A)On[a] an instrument of Gath. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.

84 How (B)lovely [b]is Your tabernacle,
O Lord of hosts!
(C)My soul longs, yes, even faints
For the courts of the Lord;
My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

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  1. Psalm 84:1 Heb. Al Gittith
  2. Psalm 84:1 are Your dwellings

Jesus Cleanses the Temple(A)

45 (B)Then He went into the temple and began to drive out those who [a]bought and sold in it, 46 saying to them, “It is written, (C)‘My house [b]is a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a (D)‘den of thieves.’

47 And He (E)was teaching daily in the temple. But (F)the chief priests, the scribes, and the leaders of the people sought to destroy Him,

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  1. Luke 19:45 NU were selling, saying
  2. Luke 19:46 NU shall be

The Joy of Going to the House of the Lord

A Song of Ascents. Of David.

122 I was glad when they said to me,
(A)“Let us go into the house of the Lord.”
Our feet have been standing
Within your gates, O Jerusalem!

Jerusalem is built
As a city that is (B)compact together,
(C)Where the tribes go up,
The tribes of the Lord,
[a]To (D)the Testimony of Israel,
To give thanks to the name of the Lord.

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  1. Psalm 122:4 Or As a testimony to

21 (A)You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and (B)in the ark you shall put the Testimony that I will give you. 22 And (C)there I will meet with you, and I will speak with you from above the mercy seat, from (D)between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the Testimony, about everything which I will give you in commandment to the children of Israel.

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So I have looked for You in the sanctuary,
To see (A)Your power and Your glory.

(B)Because Your lovingkindness is better than life,
My lips shall praise You.

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When I remember these things,
(A)I pour out my soul within me.
For I used to go with the multitude;
(B)I went with them to the house of God,
With the voice of joy and praise,
With a multitude that kept a pilgrim feast.

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14 so that the priests could not [a]continue ministering because of the cloud; (A)for the glory of the Lord filled the house of God.

Solomon’s Prayer of Dedication

Then (B)Solomon spoke:

“The Lord said He would dwell in the (C)dark cloud.
I have surely built You an exalted house,
And (D)a place for You to dwell in forever.”

Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 5:14 Lit. stand to minister

Moreover, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, I have given to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house, my own special treasure of gold and silver:

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25 Then the king said to Zadok, “Carry the ark of God back into the city. If I find favor in the eyes of the Lord, He (A)will bring me back and show me both it and (B)His dwelling place.

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The Cloud and the Glory(A)

34 (B)Then the (C)cloud covered the tabernacle of meeting, and the (D)glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. 35 And Moses (E)was not able to enter the tabernacle of meeting, because the cloud rested above it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.

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