His tabernacle is also in Salem; His dwelling place in Zion.
Parallel translations
- KJV In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion.
- BSB His tent is in Salem, His dwelling place in Zion.
- NKJV In Salem also is His tabernacle, And His dwelling place in Zion.
- NASB His tabernacle is in Salem; His dwelling place also is in Zion.
- NLT Jerusalem is where he lives; Mount Zion is his home.
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- Gen 14:18Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine: and he was priest of God Most High.
- Isa 12:6Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion; for the Holy One of Israel is great among you!”
- 2 Chr 6:6but now I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’
- Ps 132:13–14For Yahweh has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation.
- Lam 2:6He has violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden; he has destroyed his place of assembly: Yahweh has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion, Has despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
- Ps 27:5For in the day of trouble he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the covert of his tabernacle he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock.
- Ps 9:11Sing praises to Yahweh, who dwells in Zion, and declare among the people what he has done.
- Heb 7:1–2For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,
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