And rejoice before the Lord your God at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name. … Your dwelling will be away from the earth’s richness.

In Judah God is known; his name is great in Israel. His tent is in Salem, his dwelling place in Zion. … In your dwelling you keep them safe. … A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling. … If only I knew where to find him; if only I could go to his dwelling! … For in the day of trouble he will keep me safe in his dwelling; he will hide me in the shelter of his tabernacle and set me high upon a rock.

How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord Almighty! My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. … Blessed are those who dwell in your house; they are ever praising you.

For great is the Lord and most worthy of praise; he is to be feared above all gods. But the Lord made the heavens. Splendor and majesty are before him; strength and joy in his dwelling place. Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength, ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name. Worship the Lord in the splendor of his holiness.

One thing I ask of the Lord, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple.

De 16:11, Ge 27:39; Ps 76:1-2, Ps 31:20, Ps 68:5, Jo 23:3, Ps 27:5; Ps 84:1-2, Ps 84:4; 1Ch 16:25-29; Ps 27:4

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