And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.
Parallel translations
- WEB I will set my tent among you, and my soul won’t abhor you.
- BSB And I will make My dwelling place among you, and My soul will not despise 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
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- Exod 25:8And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.
- Rev 21:3And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
- Ps 132:13–14For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation.
- Exod 29:45And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.
- Eph 2:22In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
- Ps 106:40Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.
- Ps 76:2In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion.
- Lev 20:23And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
- Ezek 37:26–28Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
- Josh 22:19Notwithstanding, if the land of your possession be unclean, then pass ye over unto the land of the possession of the LORD, wherein the LORD’s tabernacle dwelleth, and take possession among us: but rebel not against the LORD, nor rebel against us, in building you an altar beside the altar of the LORD our God.
- 1 Kgs 8:13I have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a settled place for thee to abide in for ever.
- 1 Kgs 8:27But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?
- Lam 2:7The LORD hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast.
- Deut 32:19And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.
- Jer 14:21Do not abhor us, for thy name’s sake, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us.
- Ps 78:68–69But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
- Ps 78:59When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
- Zech 11:8Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.
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