Psalms 27:4

David's one supreme desire is to dwell in God's house all his life, beholding his beauty and seeking him. Communion with God is his highest longing.

Cross-references · 30

• Ps 26:8O LORD, I love the house where You dwell, the place where Your glory resides.
• Ps 23:6Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.
• Ps 65:4Blessed is the one You choose and bring near to dwell in Your courts! We are filled with the goodness of Your house, the holiness of Your temple.
• Ps 84:4How blessed are those who dwell in Your house! They are ever praising You. Selah
• Ps 84:10For 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.
• Luke 10:42But only one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, and it will not be taken away from her.”
• Ps 63:2–5So I have seen You in the sanctuary and beheld Your power and glory.
• Jer 29:13You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.
• Ps 27:8My heart said, “Seek His face.” Your face, O LORD, I will seek.
• Matt 6:33But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.
• Phil 3:13Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,
• Heb 11:6And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who approaches Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.
• Ps 90:17May the favor of the Lord our God rest upon us; establish for us the work of our hands—yes, establish the work of our hands!
• Luke 2:37and then was a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple, but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying.
• 2 Cor 3:18And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into His image with intensifying glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
• Matt 7:7–8Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.
• Ps 50:2From Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth.
• Dan 9:3So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and petition, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.
• Luke 18:1Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray at all times and not lose heart:
• 2 Cor 4:6For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
• Luke 13:24“Make every effort to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.
• Luke 11:9–10So I tell you: Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.
• Zech 9:9Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O Daughter of Jerusalem! See, your King comes to you, righteous and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
• 1 Chr 10:13–14So Saul died for his unfaithfulness to the LORD, because he did not keep the word of the LORD and even consulted a medium for guidance,
• 1 Sam 1:11And she made a vow, pleading, “O LORD of Hosts, if only You will look upon the affliction of Your maidservant and remember me, not forgetting Your maidservant but giving her a son, then I will dedicate him to the LORD all the days of his life, and no razor shall ever come over his head.”
• 1 Tim 5:5The widow who is truly in need and left all alone puts her hope in God and continues night and day in her petitions and prayers.
• Ps 26:6I wash my hands in innocence that I may go about Your altar, O LORD,
• 1 Sam 22:10Ahimelech inquired of the LORD for him and gave him provisions. He also gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.”
• 1 Sam 30:8and David inquired of the LORD: “Should I pursue these raiders? Will I overtake them?” “Pursue them,” the LORD replied, “for you will surely overtake them and rescue the captives.”
• 2 Sam 21:1During the reign of David there was a famine for three successive years, and David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said, “It is because of the blood shed by Saul and his family, because he killed the Gibeonites.”

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