Psalm 26:8
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8 O Lord, I love the house in which you dwell
and the place where your glory abides.(A)
John 2:14-17
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14 In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves and the money changers seated at their tables. 15 Making a whip of cords, he drove all of them out of the temple, with the sheep and the cattle. He also poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. 16 He told those who were selling the doves, “Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father’s house a marketplace!”(A) 17 His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.”(B)
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Psalm 27:4-6
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4 One thing I asked of the Lord;
this I seek:
to live in the house of the Lord
all the days of my life,
to behold the beauty of the Lord,
and to inquire in his temple.(A)
5 For he will hide me in his shelter
in the day of trouble;
he will conceal me under the cover of his tent;
he will set me high on a rock.(B)
6 Now my head is lifted up
above my enemies all around me,
and I will offer in his tent
sacrifices with shouts of joy;
I will sing and make melody to the Lord.(C)
Luke 2:49
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49 He said to them, “Why were you searching for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?”[a](A)
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- 2.49 Or be about my Father’s interests?
Luke 2:46
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46 After three days they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.
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Isaiah 38:22
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22 Hezekiah also had said, “What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord?”]][a]
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Isaiah 38:20
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20 The Lord will save me,
and we will sing to stringed instruments[a]
all the days of our lives,
at the house of the Lord.(A)
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- 38.20 Heb my stringed instruments
Psalm 122:9
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9 For the sake of the house of the Lord our God,
I will seek your good.(A)
Psalm 84:10
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10 For a day in your courts is better
than a thousand elsewhere.
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God
than live in the tents of wickedness.(A)
Psalm 84:1-2
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Psalm 84
The Joy of Worship in the Temple
To the leader: according to The Gittith. Of the Korahites. A Psalm.
1 How lovely is your dwelling place,
O Lord of hosts!(A)
2 My soul longs, indeed it faints,
for the courts of the Lord;
my heart and my flesh sing for joy
to the living God.(B)
Luke 19:45-47
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Jesus Cleanses the Temple
45 Then he entered the temple and began to drive out those who were selling things[a] there, 46 and he said, “It is written,
‘My house shall be a house of prayer,’
but you have made it a den of robbers.”(A)
47 Every day he was teaching in the temple. The chief priests, the scribes, and the leaders of the people kept looking for a way to kill him,(B)
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- 19.45 Other ancient authorities add in it and those who were buying things
Psalm 122:1-4
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Psalm 122
Song of Praise and Prayer for Jerusalem
A Song of Ascents. Of David.
1 I was glad when they said to me,
“Let us go to the house of the Lord!”(A)
2 Our feet are standing
within your gates, O Jerusalem.
3 Jerusalem—built as a city
that is bound firmly together.(B)
4 To it the tribes go up,
the tribes of the Lord,
as was decreed for Israel,
to give thanks to the name of the Lord.(C)
Exodus 25:21-22
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21 You shall put the cover on the top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the covenant that I am giving you.(A) 22 There I will meet with you, and from above the cover, from between the two cherubim that are on the ark of the covenant, I will tell you all that I am commanding you for the Israelites.(B)
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Psalm 63:2-3
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2 So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary,
beholding your power and glory.(A)
3 Because your steadfast love is better than life,
my lips will praise you.(B)
Psalm 42:4
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4 These things I remember,
as I pour out my soul:
how I went with the throng[a]
and led them in procession to the house of God,
with glad shouts and songs of thanksgiving,
a multitude keeping festival.(A)
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- 42.4 Meaning of Heb uncertain
2 Chronicles 5:14-6:2
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14 so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord filled the house of God.(A)
Dedication of the Temple
6 Then Solomon said, “The Lord has said that he would reside in thick darkness.(B) 2 I have built you an exalted house, a place for you to dwell forever.”
1 Chronicles 29:3
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3 Moreover, in addition to all that I have provided for the holy house, I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, and because of my devotion to the house of my God I give it to the house of my God:
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2 Samuel 15:25
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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 will bring me back and let me see both it and the place where it stays.(A)
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Exodus 40:34-35
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The Cloud and the Glory
34 Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.(A) 35 Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud settled upon it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.
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