1 Samuel 1:9

Yahweh, I love the habitation of your house, the place where your glory dwells.

Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in Yahweh’s house forever.

Blessed is the one whom you choose and cause to come near, that he may live in your courts. We will be filled with the goodness of your house, your holy temple.

For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

Blessed are those who dwell in your house. They are always praising you.

“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

When you said, “Seek my face,” my heart said to you, “I will seek your face, Yahweh.”

How lovely are your dwellings, Yahweh of Armies!

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us. Establish the work of our hands for us. Yes, establish the work of our hands.

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

“You shall observe a feast to me three times a year.

The whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled themselves together at Shiloh, and set up the Tent of Meeting there. The land was subdued before them.

Moreover his mother made him a little robe, and brought it to him from year to year when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.

and God’s lamp hadn’t yet gone out, and Samuel had laid down in Yahweh’s temple where God’s ark was,

When he came, behold, Eli was sitting on his seat by the road watching, for his heart trembled for God’s ark. When the man came into the city and told about it, all the city cried out.

Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, with cedar trees, carpenters, and masons; and they built David a house.

Uriah said to David, “The ark, Israel, and Judah, are staying in tents; and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open field. Shall I then go into my house to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing!”

Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.

So I have seen you in the sanctuary, watching your power and your glory.

I will bow down toward your holy temple, and give thanks to your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth; for you have exalted your Name and your Word above all.

His parents went every year to Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover.

“Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.

He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil which is before the covenant, Aaron and his sons shall keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh: it shall be a statute forever throughout their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.

Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh, the God of Israel.

Three times in a year all of your males shall appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he chooses: in the feast of unleavened bread, in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of booths. They shall not appear before Yahweh empty.

This man went up out of his city from year to year to worship and to sacrifice to Yahweh of Armies in Shiloh. The two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, priests to Yahweh, were there.

Yahweh sent Nathan to David. He came to him, and said to him, “There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor.

Now set your heart and your soul to follow Yahweh your God. Arise therefore, and build the sanctuary of Yahweh God, to bring the ark of Yahweh’s covenant and the holy vessels of God into the house that is to be built for Yahweh’s name.”

“Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears fawns?

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines out.

I will dwell in your tent forever. I will take refuge in the shelter of your wings.

“We will go into his dwelling place. We will worship at his footstool.

“If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, and the holy of Yahweh honorable; and honor it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words,

Yes, the doe in the field also calves and forsakes her young, because there is no grass.

who says, ‘I will build myself a wide house and spacious rooms,’ and cuts out windows for himself; with a cedar ceiling, and painted with red.

You shall seek me, and find me, when you search for me with all your heart.

‘Speak to the house of Israel, “The Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind will fall by the sword.

I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’

and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn’t depart from the temple, worshiping with fastings and petitions night and day.

but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.”

The man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer to Yahweh the yearly sacrifice and his vow.

When he made mention of God’s ark, Eli fell from off his seat backward by the side of the gate; and his neck broke, and he died, for he was an old man and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.

They brought in God’s ark, and set it in the middle of the tent that David had pitched for it; and they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before God.

Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the history of Samuel the seer, and in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the history of Gad the seer,

and they burn to Yahweh every morning and every evening burnt offerings and sweet incense. They also set the show bread in order on the pure table; and the lamp stand of gold with its lamps, to burn every evening; for we keep the instruction of Yahweh our God, but you have forsaken him.

I will extol you, Yahweh, for you have raised me up, and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.

Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

But as for me, my prayer is to you, Yahweh, in an acceptable time. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me in the truth of your salvation.

until I entered God’s sanctuary, and considered their latter end.

Praise Yah! Praise God in his sanctuary! Praise him in his heavens for his acts of power!

“Two things I have asked of you. Don’t deny me before I die.

“But go now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.

When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his room toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.

“Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?

When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. Then you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.”

Jesus turned and saw them following, and said to them, “What are you looking for?” They said to him, “Rabbi” (which is to say, being interpreted, Teacher), “where are you staying?”

His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will eat me up.”

who found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.

Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh.

So they set up for themselves Micah’s engraved image which he made, and it remained all the time that God’s house was in Shiloh.

Her rival provoked her severely, to irritate her, because Yahweh had shut up her womb.

This will be the sign to you that will come on your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they will both die.

For I have told him that I will judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons brought a curse on themselves, and he didn’t restrain them.

Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of Yahweh’s house. Samuel was afraid to show Eli the vision.

So the people sent to Shiloh, and they brought from there the ark of the covenant of Yahweh of Armies, who sits above the cherubim; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.

God’s ark was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.

the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but God’s ark dwells within curtains.”

David inquired again of God; and God said to him, “You shall not go up after them. Turn away from them, and come on them opposite the mulberry trees.

In addition, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, since I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, I give it to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house,

Happy are your men, and happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you, and hear your wisdom.

Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “Please inquire first for Yahweh’s word.”

But as for me, in the abundance of your loving kindness I will come into your house. I will bow toward your holy temple in reverence of you.

One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.

Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name. Worship Yahweh in holy array.

Yahweh’s voice makes the deer calve, and strips the forests bare. In his temple everything says, “Glory!”

Your way, God, is in the sanctuary. What god is great like God?

so that he abandoned the tent of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men,

Turn us again, Yahweh God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.

Honor and majesty are before him. Strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.

Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my door posts.

The desire of the righteous is only good. The expectation of the wicked is wrath.

For wickedness burns like a fire. It devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.