Until I find a place for the Lord, A dwelling place for the Mighty One of Jacob.”
Parallel translations
- WEB until I find out a place for Yahweh, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob.”
- KJV Until I find out a place for the LORD, an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob.
- BSB until I find a place for the LORD, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob.”
- NKJV Until I find a place for the Lord, A dwelling place for the Mighty One of Jacob.”
- NLT until I find a place to build a house for the Lord, a sanctuary for the Mighty One of Israel.”
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Quick answer
His goal was to find a dwelling place for the Mighty One of Jacob. It reveals that David's whole drive was to honor God with a fitting habitation.
Overview
David's purpose climaxes here: to locate a dwelling for the Lord, the Mighty One of Jacob. His longing was for God's presence to be established among His people. This desire is answered ultimately in Christ, in whom the fullness of God dwells and through whom believers become God's temple.
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Cross-references · 9
- Eph 2:22in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.
- 2 Chr 2:6But who is able to build him a house, since heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain him? Who am I then, that I should build him a house, except just to burn incense before him?
- Acts 7:46–49who found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.
- 1 Chr 22:7David said to Solomon his son, “As for me, it was in my heart to build a house to the name of Yahweh my God.
- Isa 66:1Yahweh says, “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build to me? Where will I rest?
- 1 Chr 15:3David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem, to bring up Yahweh’s ark to its place, which he had prepared for it.
- 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!
- 2 Sam 6:17They 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.
- 1 Chr 15:12and said to them, “You are the heads of the fathers’ households of the Levites. Sanctify yourselves, both you and your brothers, that you may bring the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel, up to the place that I have prepared for it.
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