I will set my tent among you, and my soul won’t abhor you.
Parallel translations
- KJV And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not 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.
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Cross-references · 18
- Exod 25:8Let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.
- Rev 21:3I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.
- Ps 132:13–14For Yahweh has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation.
- Exod 29:45I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.
- Eph 2:22in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.
- Ps 106:40Therefore Yahweh burned with anger against his people. He abhorred his inheritance.
- Ps 76:2His tabernacle is also in Salem; His dwelling place in Zion.
- Lev 20:23You shall not walk in the customs of the nation, which I am casting out before you: for they did 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 among them forever more.
- Josh 22:19However, if the land of your possession is unclean, then pass over to the land of the possession of Yahweh, in which Yahweh’s tabernacle dwells, and take possession among us; but don’t rebel against Yahweh, nor rebel against us, in building an altar other than Yahweh our God’s altar.
- 1 Kgs 8:13I have surely built you a house of habitation, a place for you to dwell in forever.”
- 1 Kgs 8:27But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house that I have built!
- Lam 2:7The Lord has cast off his altar, he has abhorred his sanctuary; He has given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces: They have made a noise in Yahweh’s house, as in the day of a solemn assembly.
- Deut 32:19Yahweh saw and abhorred, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.
- Jer 14:21Do not abhor us, for your name’s sake. Do not disgrace the throne of your glory. Remember, and don’t break your covenant with us.
- Ps 78:68–69But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.
- Ps 78:59When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel;
- Zech 11:8I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.
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