Psalms 26:8

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.

This is the day that Yahweh has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it!

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.

To those who sold the doves, he said, “Take these things out of here! Don’t make my Father’s house a marketplace!”

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.”

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

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,

Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit. I have not been drinking wine or strong drink, but I poured out my soul before Yahweh.

When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly, because a man had come to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.

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.

“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!” says Yahweh of Armies.

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.

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

So Hannah rose up after they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh. Now Eli the priest was sitting on his seat by the doorpost of Yahweh’s temple.

She named the child Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel!” because God’s ark was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.

including Ahijah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod’s brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the priest of Yahweh in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. The people didn’t know that Jonathan was gone.

I have surely built you a house of habitation, a place for you to dwell in forever.”

But I have built you a house and home, a place for you to dwell in forever.”

We took sweet fellowship together. We walked in God’s house with company.

Show me a sign of your goodness, that those who hate me may see it, and be shamed, because you, Yahweh, have helped me, and comforted me.

I was glad when they said to me, “Let’s go to Yahweh’s house!”

Praise him with tambourine and dancing! Praise him with stringed instruments and flute!

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

You will have a song, as in the night when a holy feast is kept, and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a flute to come to Yahweh’s mountain, to Israel’s Rock.

“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,

The prince shall go in with them when they go in. When they go out, he shall go out.

He who swears by the temple, swears by it, and by him who has been living in it.

“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.

choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time,

Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” He built an altar there to Yahweh, who had appeared to him.

Rejoice, you nations, with his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants. He will take vengeance on his adversaries, and will make atonement for his land and for his people.

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.”

“Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold of me.

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

I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”

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.

Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us.

Blessed be Yahweh from Zion, who dwells at Jerusalem. Praise Yah!

You have multiplied the nation. You have increased their joy. They rejoice before you according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the plunder.

“Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her. Rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn over her;

Has a nation changed its gods, which really are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which doesn’t profit.

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

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.

While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, seeking to speak to him.

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.”

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.

But Jesus answered them, “My Father is still working, so I am working, too.”

For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn’t left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”

But one stood up in the council, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, honored by all the people, and commanded to put the apostles out for a little while.

then it shall happen that to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to Yahweh.

But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into Yahweh’s house; and the priests who kept the threshold put all the money that was brought into Yahweh’s house into it.

Remember me, my God, concerning this, and don’t wipe out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for its observances.

For Mordecai the Jew was next to King Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted by the multitude of his brothers, seeking the good of his people, and speaking peace to all his descendants.

For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.

But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Those who love you will prosper.

For my brothers’ and companions’ sakes, I will now say, “Peace be within you.”

Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don’t remember you, if I don’t prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy.

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

But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for, behold, I create Jerusalem to be a delight, and her people a joy.

“Therefore prophesy against them all these words, and tell them, “ ‘Yahweh will roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation. He will mightily roar against his fold. He will give a shout, as those who tread grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.

Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old; when her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and no one helped her. The adversaries saw her. They mocked at her desolations.

He said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Didn’t you know that I must be in my Father’s house?”

I am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired servants.” ’

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?”

Therefore let’s keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

If a Levite comes from any of your gates out of all Israel where he lives, and comes with all the desire of his soul to the place which Yahweh shall choose,

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.

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.

The king said to Zadok, “Carry God’s ark back into the city. If I find favor in Yahweh’s eyes, he will bring me again, and show me both it, and his habitation;

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,

and to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counselors have freely offered to the God of Israel, whose habitation is in Jerusalem,

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

These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.

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.

For the sake of the house of Yahweh our God, I will seek your good.

Yahweh will save me. Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our life in Yahweh’s house.

Hezekiah also had said, “What is the sign that I will go up to Yahweh’s house?”

After three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the middle of the teachers, both listening to them, and asking them questions.

But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.

to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on Yahweh’s name.