Psalms 26:8

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Psalms 26:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible

6 I wash my hands in innocence that I may go about Your altar, O LORD,

7 to raise my voice in thanksgiving and declare all Your wonderful works.

8 O LORD, I love the house where You dwell, the place where Your glory resides.

9 Do not take my soul away with sinners, or my life with men of bloodshed,

10 in whose hands are wicked schemes, whose right hands are full of bribes.

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Psalms 27:4

One thing I have asked of the LORD; this is what I desire: to dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the LORD and seek Him in His temple.

Psalms 27:5

For in the day of trouble He will hide me in His shelter; He will conceal me under the cover of His tent; He will set me high upon a rock.

Psalms 27:6

Then my head will be held high above my enemies around me. At His tabernacle I will offer sacrifices with shouts of joy; I will sing and make music to the LORD.

Psalms 42:4

These things come to mind as I pour out my soul: how I walked with the multitude, leading the procession to the house of God with shouts of joy and praise.

Psalms 84:1

How lovely is Your dwelling place, O LORD of Hosts!

Psalms 84:2

My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

Psalms 84:10

For better is one day in Your courts than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.

Psalms 122:1

I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the LORD.”

Psalms 122:2

Our feet are standing in your gates, O Jerusalem.

Psalms 122:3

Jerusalem is built up as a city united together,

Psalms 122:4

where the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, as a testimony for Israel, to give thanks to the name of the LORD.

Psalms 122:9

For the sake of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek your prosperity.

2 Samuel 15:25

Then the king said to Zadok, “Return the ark of God to the city. If I find favor in the eyes of the LORD, He will bring me back and let me see both it and His dwelling place again.

1 Chronicles 29:3

Moreover, because of my delight in the house of my God, I now give for it my personal treasures of gold and silver, over and above all that I have provided for this holy temple:

Isaiah 38:20

The LORD will save me; we will play songs on stringed instruments all the days of our lives in the house of the LORD.

Isaiah 38:22

And Hezekiah had asked, “What will be the sign that I will go up to the house of the LORD?”

Luke 2:46

Finally, after three days they found Him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.

Luke 2:49

“Why were you looking for Me?” He asked. “Did you not know that I had to be in My Father’s house ?”

Luke 19:45

Then Jesus entered the temple courts and began to drive out those who were selling there.

Luke 19:46

He declared to them, “It is written: ‘My house will be a house of prayer.’ But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”

Luke 19:47

Jesus was teaching at the temple every day, but the chief priests, scribes, and leaders of the people were intent on killing Him.

John 2:14

In the temple courts He found men selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and money changers seated at their tables.

John 2:15

So He made a whip out of cords and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle. He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.

John 2:16

To those selling doves He said, “Get these out of here! How dare you turn My Father’s house into a marketplace!”

John 2:17

His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for Your house will consume Me.”

Psalms 63:2

So I have seen You in the sanctuary and beheld Your power and glory.

Psalms 63:3

Because Your loving devotion is better than life, my lips will glorify You.

Exodus 25:21

Set the mercy seat atop the ark, and put the Testimony that I will give you into the ark.

Exodus 25:22

And I will meet with you there above the mercy seat, between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the Testimony; I will speak with you about all that I command you regarding the Israelites.

Exodus 40:34

Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.

Exodus 40:35

Moses was unable to enter the Tent of Meeting because the cloud had settled on it, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.

2 Chronicles 5:14

so that the priests could not stand there to minister because of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD filled the house of God.

2 Chronicles 6:1

Then Solomon declared: “The LORD has said that He would dwell in the thick cloud;

2 Chronicles 6:2

and I have built You an exalted house, a place for You to dwell forever.”