Psalms 78:61

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.

which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn’t have crucified the Lord of glory.

that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

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

He shows his word to Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.

Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter: the one which keeps faith.

I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.”

You shall tell Pharaoh, ‘Yahweh says, Israel is my son, my firstborn,

On the day that the tabernacle was raised up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, even the Tent of the Testimony. At evening it was over the tabernacle, as it were the appearance of fire, until morning.

Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and called its name Ebenezer, saying, “Yahweh helped us until now.”

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.

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

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.

The heavens declare his righteousness. All the peoples have seen his glory.

Arise, Yahweh, into your resting place, you, and the ark of your strength.

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

The word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and encamped beside Ebenezer; and the Philistines encamped in Aphek.

so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for Yahweh’s glory filled Yahweh’s house.

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.”

Then David the king stood up on his feet, and said, “Hear me, my brothers, and my people! As for me, it was in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, and for the footstool of our God; and I had prepared for the building.

Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn’t weep.

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

When he came near to the den to Daniel, he cried with a troubled voice. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Daniel, servant of the living God, is your God, whom you serve continually, able to deliver you from the lions?”

Jesus said to her, “Didn’t I tell you that if you believed, you would see God’s glory?”

But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel that are of Israel.

The temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power. No one was able to enter into the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels would be finished.

She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, “I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land.”

In the morning watch, Yahweh looked out on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and confused the Egyptian army.

In the morning, you shall see Yahweh’s glory; because he hears your murmurings against Yahweh. Who are we, that you murmur against us?”

There I will meet with the children of Israel; and the place shall be sanctified by my glory.

When Moses entered into the Tent, the pillar of cloud descended, stood at the door of the Tent, and Yahweh spoke with Moses.

and Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron your brother not to come at just any time into the Most Holy Place within the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark; lest he die; for I will appear in the cloud on the mercy seat.

For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

You are the children of Yahweh your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

from the Shihor, which is before Egypt, even to the border of Ekron northward, which is counted as Canaanite; the five lords of the Philistines; the Gazites, and the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avvim,

The children of Israel again did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight; and Yahweh delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.

He restored the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother, then his mother said, “I most certainly dedicate the silver to Yahweh from my hand for my son, to make a carved image and a molten image. Now therefore I will restore it to you.”

The man Micah had a house of gods, and he made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.

Micah consecrated the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.

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.

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.

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

when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking Yahweh; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised Yahweh, saying, “For he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever!” then the house was filled with a cloud, even Yahweh’s house,

The priests could not enter into Yahweh’s house, because Yahweh’s glory filled Yahweh’s house.

They took fortified cities and a rich land, and possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns dug out, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate, were filled, became fat, and delighted themselves in your great goodness.

This is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek your face—even Jacob.

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.

May God be merciful to us, bless us, and cause his face to shine on us.

Let God arise! Let his enemies be scattered! Let them who hate him also flee before him.

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

Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

This is the gate of Yahweh; the righteous will enter into it.

“This is my resting place forever. I will live here, for I have desired it.

I will also clothe her priests with salvation. Her saints will shout aloud for joy.

The foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke.

I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

Proclaim in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, “Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria, and see what unrest is in her, and what oppression is among them.”

Seek Yahweh, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of Yahweh’s anger.

and I will shake all nations. The precious things of all nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory, says Yahweh of Armies.

‘The latter glory of this house will be greater than the former,’ says Yahweh of Armies; ‘and in this place I will give peace,’ says Yahweh of Armies.”

but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”

For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

But Philip was found at Azotus. Passing through, he preached the Good News to all the cities, until he came to Caesarea.

You who glory in the law, do you dishonor God by disobeying the law?

Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the revelations of God.

Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the offspring of Abraham? So am I.

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him,

Now indeed even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service and an earthly sanctuary.

“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!”

Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.

Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and Yahweh’s glory filled the tabernacle.

There were none of the Anakim left in the land of the children of Israel. Only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, did some remain.

from Ekron even to the sea, all that were by the side of Ashdod, with their villages.

The children of Dan set up for themselves the engraved image; and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land.

He who brought the news answered, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been also a great slaughter among the people. Your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and God’s ark has been captured.”

Now the Philistines had taken God’s ark, and they brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod.

Yahweh’s ark was in the country of the Philistines seven months.

These are the golden tumors which the Philistines returned for a trespass offering to Yahweh: for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Ashkelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;

Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother named him Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him with sorrow.”

So Solomon, and all the assembly with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for God’s Tent of Meeting was there, which Yahweh’s servant Moses had made in the wilderness.

“Now therefore arise, Yahweh God, into your resting place, you, and the ark of your strength. Let your priests, Yahweh God, be clothed with salvation, and let your saints rejoice in goodness.

Lift up your heads, you gates! Be lifted up, you everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in.

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

I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people will be satisfied with my goodness,” says Yahweh.

How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He has cast the beauty of Israel down from heaven to the earth, and hasn’t remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.

who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;

Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.