And I will make My dwelling place among you, and My soul will not despise you.
Parallel translations
- WEB I will set my tent among you, and my soul won’t abhor you.
- KJV And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.
- NKJV I will set My tabernacle among you, and My soul shall not abhor you.
- NASB Moreover, I will make My dwelling among you, and My soul will not reject you.
- NLT I will live among you, and I will not despise you.
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Quick answer
God promises to dwell among His people and not to reject them. His abiding presence is the greatest blessing of the covenant.
Overview
The 'tent' or dwelling refers to God making His home among Israel, the heart of the covenant relationship. That He will not abhor them assures them of His acceptance. This promise reaches its climax in Christ, who tabernacled among us (John 1:14), and in the new creation where God dwells forever with His people.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 18
- Exod 25:8And they are to make a sanctuary for Me, so that I may dwell among them.
- Rev 21:3And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying: “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man, and He will dwell with them. They will be His people, and God Himself will be with them as their God.
- Ps 132:13–14For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His home:
- Exod 29:45Then I will dwell among the Israelites and be their God.
- Eph 2:22And in Him you too are being built together into a dwelling place for God in His Spirit.
- Ps 106:40So the anger of the LORD burned against His people, and He abhorred His own inheritance.
- Ps 76:2His tent is in Salem, His dwelling place in Zion.
- Lev 20:23You must not follow the statutes of the nations I am driving out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them.
- Ezek 37:26–28And I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant. I will establish them and multiply them, and I will set My sanctuary among them forever.
- Josh 22:19If indeed the land of your inheritance is unclean, then cross over to the land of the LORD’s possession, where the LORD’s tabernacle stands, and take possession of it among us. But do not rebel against the LORD or against us by building for yourselves an altar other than the altar of the LORD our God.
- 1 Kgs 8:13I have indeed built You an exalted house, a place for You to dwell forever.”
- 1 Kgs 8:27But will God indeed dwell upon the earth? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.
- Lam 2:7The Lord has rejected His altar; He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has delivered the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have raised a shout in the house of the LORD as on the day of an appointed feast.
- Deut 32:19When the LORD saw this, He rejected them, provoked to anger by His sons and daughters.
- Jer 14:21For the sake of Your name do not despise us; do not disgrace Your glorious throne. Remember Your covenant with us; do not break it.
- Ps 78:68–69But He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved.
- Ps 78:59On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely.
- Zech 11:8And in one month I dismissed three shepherds. My soul grew impatient with the flock, and their souls also detested me.
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