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• Genesis 28:17

  He was afraid, and said, “How dreadful is this place! This is none other than God’s house, and this is the gate of heaven.”

• Genesis 28:22

  then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, will be God’s house. Of all that you will give me I will surely give a tenth to you.”

• Exodus 12:3

  Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth day of this month, they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household;

• Exodus 12:6

  and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at evening.

• Exodus 12:19

  There shall be no yeast found in your houses for seven days, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a foreigner, or one who is born in the land.

• Exodus 12:47

  All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.

• Exodus 16:1

  They took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.

• Exodus 16:2

  The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;

• Exodus 16:9

  Moses said to Aaron, “Tell all the congregation of the children of Israel, ‘Come near before Yahweh, for he has heard your murmurings.’”

• Exodus 16:10

  As Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Israel, they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, Yahweh’s glory appeared in the cloud.

• Exodus 16:22

  On the sixth day, they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one, and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.

• Exodus 23:19

  The first of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of Yahweh your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

• Exodus 25:8

  Let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.

• Exodus 26:1

  “Moreover you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains; of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with cherubim. The work of the skillful workman you shall make them.

• Exodus 28:29

  Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment on his heart, when he goes in to the holy place, for a memorial before Yahweh continually.

• Exodus 30:26

  You shall use it to anoint the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the testimony,

• Exodus 30:27

  the table and all its articles, the lamp stand and its accessories, the altar of incense,

• Exodus 30:28

  the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the basin with its base.

• Exodus 30:29

  You shall sanctify them, that they may be most holy. Whatever touches them shall be holy.

• Exodus 34:26

  “You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground to the house of Yahweh your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

• Exodus 38:24

  All the gold that was used for the work in all the work of the sanctuary, even the gold of the offering, was twenty-nine talents, and seven hundred thirty shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary.

• Exodus 40:9

  “You shall take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle, and all that is in it, and shall make it holy, and all its furniture: and it will be holy.

• Leviticus 4:13

  “‘If the whole congregation of Israel sins, and the thing is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, and are guilty;

• Leviticus 4:15

  The elders of the congregation shall lay their hands on the head of the bull before Yahweh; and the bull shall be killed before Yahweh.

• Leviticus 6:16

  That which is left of it Aaron and his sons shall eat. It shall be eaten without yeast in a holy place. They shall eat it in the court of the Tent of Meeting.

• Leviticus 8:10

  Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and sanctified them.

• Leviticus 8:11

  He sprinkled it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its vessels, and the basin and its base, to sanctify them.

• Leviticus 10:17

  “Why haven’t you eaten the sin offering in the place of the sanctuary, since it is most holy, and he has given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before Yahweh?

• Leviticus 14:13

  He shall kill the male lamb in the place where they kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the place of the sanctuary; for as the sin offering is the priest’s, so is the trespass offering. It is most holy.

• Leviticus 16:2

  and Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron your brother, not to come at all times into the Most Holy Place within the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark; lest he die: for I will appear in the cloud on the mercy seat.

• Leviticus 16:3

  “Aaron shall come into the sanctuary with a young bull for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering.

• Leviticus 16:4

  He shall put on the holy linen coat. He shall have the linen breeches on his body, and shall put on the linen sash, and he shall be clothed with the linen turban. They are the holy garments. He shall bathe his body in water, and put them on.

• Leviticus 16:5

  He shall take from the congregation of the children of Israel two male goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering.

• Leviticus 16:6

  “Aaron shall offer the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make atonement for himself and for his house.

• Leviticus 16:7

  He shall take the two goats, and set them before Yahweh at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

• Leviticus 16:8

  Aaron shall cast lots for the two goats; one lot for Yahweh, and the other lot for the scapegoat.

• Leviticus 16:9

  Aaron shall present the goat on which the lot fell for Yahweh, and offer him for a sin offering.

• Leviticus 16:10

  But the goat, on which the lot fell for the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before Yahweh, to make atonement for him, to send him away for the scapegoat into the wilderness.

• Leviticus 16:11

  “Aaron shall present the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shall make atonement for himself and for his house, and shall kill the bull of the sin offering which is for himself.

• Leviticus 16:12

  He shall take a censer full of coals of fire from off the altar before Yahweh, and two handfuls of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the veil:

• Leviticus 16:13

  and he shall put the incense on the fire before Yahweh, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is on the testimony, so that he will not die.

• Leviticus 16:14

  He shall take some of the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it with his finger on the mercy seat on the east; and before the mercy seat he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times.

• Leviticus 16:15

  “Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the veil, and do with his blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat.

• Leviticus 16:16

  He shall make atonement for the Holy Place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions, even all their sins; and so he shall do for the Tent of Meeting, that dwells with them in the middle of their uncleanness.

• Leviticus 16:17

  No one shall be in the Tent of Meeting when he enters to make atonement in the Holy Place, until he comes out, and has made atonement for himself and for his household, and for all the assembly of Israel.

• Leviticus 16:18

  “He shall go out to the altar that is before Yahweh and make atonement for it, and shall take some of the bull’s blood, and some of the goat’s blood, and put it around on the horns of the altar.

• Leviticus 16:19

  He shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and make it holy from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.

• Leviticus 16:20

  “When he has finished atoning for the Holy Place, the Tent of Meeting, and the altar, he shall present the live goat.

• Leviticus 16:21

  Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions, even all their sins; and he shall put them on the head of the goat, and shall send him away into the wilderness by the hand of a man who is in readiness.

• Leviticus 16:22

  The goat shall carry all their iniquities on himself to a solitary land, and he shall let the goat go in the wilderness.

• Leviticus 16:23

  “Aaron shall come into the Tent of Meeting, and shall take off the linen garments, which he put on when he went into the Holy Place, and shall leave them there.

• Leviticus 16:24

  Then he shall bathe himself in water in a holy place, and put on his garments, and come out and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people, and make atonement for himself and for the people.

• Leviticus 19:30

  “‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary; I am Yahweh.

• Leviticus 21:12

  He shall not go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him. I am Yahweh.

• Leviticus 24:14

  “Bring out of the camp him who cursed; and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him.

• Leviticus 26:11

  I will set my tent among you, and my soul won’t abhor you.

• Numbers 3:28

  According to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, there were eight thousand six hundred, keeping the requirements of the sanctuary.

• Numbers 4:12

  “They shall take all the vessels of ministry, with which they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a blue cloth, and cover them with a covering of sealskin, and shall put them on the frame.

• Numbers 7:1

  On the day that Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle, and had anointed it and sanctified it, with all its furniture, and the altar with all its vessels, and had anointed and sanctified them;

• Numbers 7:9

  But to the sons of Kohath he gave none, because the service of the sanctuary belonged to them; they carried it on their shoulders.

• Numbers 8:19

  I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the Tent of Meeting, and to make atonement for the children of Israel; that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come near to the sanctuary.”

• Numbers 10:21

  The Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary. The others set up the tabernacle before they arrived.

• Numbers 18:1

  Yahweh said to Aaron, “You and your sons and your fathers’ house with you shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.

• Numbers 18:5

  “You shall perform the duty of the sanctuary and the duty of the altar, that there be no more wrath on the children of Israel.

• Numbers 19:20

  But the man who shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from the middle of the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of Yahweh. The water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him. He is unclean.

• Deuteronomy 23:18

  You shall not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the wages of a male prostitute, into the house of Yahweh your God for any vow; for both of these are an abomination to Yahweh your God.

• Joshua 5:15

  The prince of Yahweh’s army said to Joshua, “Take your shoes off of your feet; for the place on which you stand is holy.” Joshua did so.

• Joshua 6:24

  They burned the city with fire, and all that was in it. Only they put the silver, the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron into the treasury of Yahweh’s house.

• Joshua 9:23

  Now therefore you are cursed, and some of you will never fail to be slaves, both wood cutters and drawers of water for the house of my God.”

• Joshua 22:19

  However, 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.

• Judges 18:31

  So they set up for themselves Micah’s engraved image which he made, and it remained all the time that God’s house was in Shiloh.

• Judges 19:18

  He said to him, “We are passing from Bethlehem Judah to the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim. I am from there, and I went to Bethlehem Judah. I am going to Yahweh’s house; and there is no one who has taken me into his house.

• Judges 20:18

  The children of Israel arose, went up to Bethel, and asked counsel of God. They asked, “Who shall go up for us first to battle against the children of Benjamin?” Yahweh said, “Judah first.”

• Judges 20:26

  Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came to Bethel, and wept, and sat there before Yahweh, and fasted that day until evening; then they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before Yahweh.

• Judges 21:2

  The people came to Bethel, and sat there until evening before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept severely.

• 1 Samuel 1:7

  As he did so year by year, when she went up to Yahweh’s house. Her rival provoked her; therefore she wept, and didn’t eat.

• 1 Samuel 1:9

  So Hannah rose up after they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh. Now Eli the priest was sitting on his seat by the doorpost of Yahweh’s temple.

• 1 Samuel 1:24

  When she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bulls, and one ephah of meal, and a bottle of wine, and brought him to Yahweh’s house in Shiloh. The child was young.

• 1 Samuel 3:3

  and God’s lamp hadn’t yet gone out, and Samuel had laid down in Yahweh’s temple, where God’s ark was;

• 2 Samuel 12:20

  Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his clothing; and he came into Yahweh’s house, and worshiped. Then he came to his own house; and when he requested, they set bread before him, and he ate.

• 1 Kings 3:1

  Solomon made an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh’s daughter, and brought her into David’s city, until he had finished building his own house, Yahweh’s house, and the wall around Jerusalem.

• 1 Kings 6:37

  The foundation of Yahweh’s house was laid in the fourth year, in the month Ziv.

• 1 Kings 7:40

  Hiram made the basins, the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram finished doing all the work that he worked for king Solomon in Yahweh’s house:

• 1 Kings 8:8

  The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the holy place before the inner sanctuary; but they were not seen outside. They are there to this day.

• 1 Kings 8:10

  It came to pass, when the priests had come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled Yahweh’s house,

• 1 Kings 8:63

  Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered to Yahweh, twenty two thousand head of cattle, and one hundred twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated Yahweh’s house.

• 1 Kings 9:3

  Yahweh said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.

• 1 Kings 10:5

  the food of his table, the sitting of his servants, the attendance of his officials, their clothing, his cup bearers, and his ascent by which he went up to Yahweh’s house; there was no more spirit in her.

• 2 Kings 11:3

  He was with her hidden in Yahweh’s house six years while Athaliah reigned over the land.

• 2 Kings 11:4

  In the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the captains over hundreds of the Carites and of the guard, and brought them to him into Yahweh’s house; and he made a covenant with them, and made a covenant with them in Yahweh’s house, and showed them the king’s son.

• 2 Kings 11:10

  The priest delivered to the captains over hundreds the spears and shields that had been king David’s, which were in Yahweh’s house.

• 2 Kings 11:13

  When Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she came to the people into Yahweh’s house:

• 2 Kings 11:15

  Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds who were set over the army, and said to them, “Bring her out between the ranks. Kill anyone who follows her with the sword.” For the priest said, “Don’t let her be slain in Yahweh’s house.”

• 2 Kings 11:18

  All the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and broke it down; his altars and his images broke they in pieces thoroughly, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. The priest appointed officers over Yahweh’s house.

• 2 Kings 11:19

  He took the captains over hundreds, and the Carites, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from Yahweh’s house, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king’s house. He sat on the throne of the kings.

• 2 Kings 12:4

  Jehoash said to the priests, “All the money of the holy things that is brought into Yahweh’s house, in current money, the money of the people for whom each man is evaluated, and all the money that it comes into any man’s heart to bring into Yahweh’s house,

• 2 Kings 12:9

  But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into Yahweh’s house; and the priests who kept the threshold put all the money that was brought into Yahweh’s house into it.

• 2 Kings 12:10

  When they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king’s scribe and the high priest came up, and they put it in bags and counted the money that was found in Yahweh’s house.

• 2 Kings 12:13

  But there were not made for Yahweh’s house cups of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into Yahweh’s house;

• 2 Kings 12:16

  The money for the trespass offerings, and the money for the sin offerings was not brought into Yahweh’s house. It was the priests’.

• 2 Kings 16:18

  He removed the covered way for the Sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king’s entry outside to Yahweh’s house, because of the king of Assyria.

• 2 Kings 20:8

  Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “What will be the sign that Yahweh will heal me, and that I will go up to Yahweh’s house the third day?”

• 2 Kings 23:2

  The king went up to Yahweh’s house, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, with the priests, the prophets, and all the people, both small and great; and he read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in Yahweh’s house.

• 2 Kings 23:7

  He broke down the houses of the male shrine prostitutes that were in Yahweh’s house, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.

• 2 Kings 23:11

  He took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of Yahweh’s house, by the room of Nathan Melech the officer, who was in the court; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.

• 2 Kings 25:9

  He burned Yahweh’s house, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, he burned with fire.

• 1 Chronicles 6:31

  These are they whom David set over the service of song in Yahweh’s house, after the ark came to rest there.

• 1 Chronicles 9:11

  and Azariah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of God’s house;

• 1 Chronicles 9:29

  Some of them also were appointed over the furniture, and over all the vessels of the sanctuary, over the fine flour, the wine, the oil, the frankincense, and the spices.

• 1 Chronicles 22:1

  Then David said, “This is the house of Yahweh God, and this is the altar of burnt offering for Israel.”

• 1 Chronicles 22:11

  Now, my son, may Yahweh be with you and prosper you, and build the house of Yahweh your God, as he has spoken concerning you.

• 1 Chronicles 22:14

  Now, behold, in my affliction I have prepared for Yahweh’s house one hundred thousand talents of gold, one million talents of silver, and brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance. I have also prepared timber and stone; and you may add to them.

• 1 Chronicles 22:19

  Now set your heart and your soul to follow Yahweh your God. Arise therefore, and build the sanctuary of Yahweh God, to bring the ark of Yahweh’s covenant and the holy vessels of God into the house that is to be built for Yahweh’s name.”

• 1 Chronicles 23:4

  David said, “Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of Yahweh’s house, six thousand were officers and judges,

• 1 Chronicles 23:32

  and that they should keep the duty of the Tent of Meeting, the duty of the holy place, and the duty of the sons of Aaron their brothers, for the service of Yahweh’s house.

• 1 Chronicles 24:5

  Thus were they divided impartially by drawing lots; for there were princes of the sanctuary, and princes of God, both of the sons of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar.

• 1 Chronicles 26:12

  Of these were the divisions of the doorkeepers, even of the chief men, having offices like their brothers, to minister in Yahweh’s house.

• 1 Chronicles 28:10

  Take heed now; for Yahweh has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary. Be strong, and do it.”

• 1 Chronicles 29:3

  In addition, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, since I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, I give it to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house,

• 2 Chronicles 3:8

  He made the most holy place. Its length, according to the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and its width twenty cubits; and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.

• 2 Chronicles 5:14

  so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for Yahweh’s glory filled God’s house.

• 2 Chronicles 8:16

  Now all the work of Solomon was prepared from the day of the foundation of Yahweh’s house until it was finished. So Yahweh’s house was completed.

• 2 Chronicles 20:8

  They lived in it, and have built you a sanctuary in it for your name, saying,

• 2 Chronicles 22:12

  He was with them hidden in God’s house six years while Athaliah reigned over the land.

• 2 Chronicles 24:13

  So the workmen worked, and the work of repairing went forward in their hands. They set up God’s house as it was designed, and strengthened it.

• 2 Chronicles 26:18

  They resisted Uzziah the king, and said to him, “It isn’t for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to Yahweh, but for the priests the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Go out of the sanctuary, for you have trespassed. It will not be for your honor from Yahweh God.”

• 2 Chronicles 26:21

  Uzziah the king was a leper to the day of his death, and lived in a separate house, being a leper; for he was cut off from Yahweh’s house. Jotham his son was over the king’s house, judging the people of the land.

• 2 Chronicles 29:5

  and said to them, “Listen to me, you Levites! Now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify Yahweh, the God of your fathers’ house, and carry the filthiness out of the holy place.

• 2 Chronicles 29:15

  They gathered their brothers, sanctified themselves, and went in, according to the commandment of the king by Yahweh’s words, to cleanse Yahweh’s house.

• 2 Chronicles 29:21

  They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven male goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, for the sanctuary, and for Judah. He commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on Yahweh’s altar.

• 2 Chronicles 30:8

  Now don’t be stiff-necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to Yahweh, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve Yahweh your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.

• 2 Chronicles 30:19

  who sets his heart to seek God, Yahweh, the God of his fathers, even if they aren’t clean according to the purification of the sanctuary.”

• 2 Chronicles 30:27

  Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people. Their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy habitation, even to heaven.

• 2 Chronicles 33:7

  He set the engraved image of the idol, which he had made, in God’s house, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name forever.

• 2 Chronicles 33:15

  He took away the foreign gods, and the idol out of Yahweh’s house, and all the altars that he had built in the mountain of Yahweh’s house, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.

• 2 Chronicles 34:15

  Hilkiah answered Shaphan the scribe, “I have found the book of the law in Yahweh’s house.” So Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan.

• 2 Chronicles 35:5

  Stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the fathers’ houses of your brothers the children of the people, and let there be for each a portion of a fathers’ house of the Levites.

• 2 Chronicles 36:14

  Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and the people, trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted Yahweh’s house which he had made holy in Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 36:19

  They burned God’s house, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all of its valuable vessels.

• Ezra 4:1

  Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity were building a temple to Yahweh, the God of Israel;

• Ezra 5:8

  Be it known to the king that we went into the province of Judah, to the house of the great God, which is built with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls. This work goes on with diligence and prospers in their hands.

• Ezra 5:15

  He said to him, ‘Take these vessels, go, put them in the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let God’s house be built in its place.’

• Ezra 7:20

  Whatever more will be needed for the house of your God, which you may have occasion to give, give it out of the king’s treasure house.

• Ezra 7:23

  Whatever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be done exactly for the house of the God of heaven; for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons?

• Ezra 7:27

  Blessed be Yahweh, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify Yahweh’s house which is in Jerusalem;

• Ezra 9:8

  Now for a little moment grace has been shown from Yahweh our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and revived us a little in our bondage.

• Nehemiah 6:10

  I went to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabel, who was shut in at his home; and he said, “Let us meet together in God’s house, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple; for they will come to kill you. Yes, in the night will they come to kill you.”

• Nehemiah 10:39

  For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the wave offering of the grain, of the new wine, and of the oil, to the rooms, where the vessels of the sanctuary are, and the priests who minister, with the porters and the singers. We will not forsake the house of our God.

• Nehemiah 11:11

  Seraiah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of God’s house,

• Nehemiah 13:11

  Then I contended with the rulers, and said, “Why is God’s house forsaken?” I gathered them together, and set them in their place.

• Psalms 5:7

  But as for me, in the abundance of your loving kindness I will come into your house. I will bow toward your holy temple in reverence of you.

• Psalms 9:11

  Sing praises to Yahweh, who dwells in Zion, and declare among the people what he has done.

• Psalms 11:4

  Yahweh is in his holy temple. Yahweh is on his throne in heaven. His eyes observe. His eyes examine the children of men.

• Psalms 15:1

  A Psalm by David. Yahweh, who shall dwell in your sanctuary? Who shall live on your holy hill?

• Psalms 20:2

  send you help from the sanctuary, grant you support from Zion,

• Psalms 23:6

  Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in Yahweh’s house forever.

• Psalms 24:3

  Who may ascend to Yahweh’s hill? Who may stand in his holy place?

• Psalms 27:4

  One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.

• Psalms 28:2

  Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.

• Psalms 29:9

  Yahweh’s voice makes the deer calve, and strips the forests bare. In his temple everything says, “Glory!”

• Psalms 42:4

  These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.

• Psalms 46:4

  There is a river, the streams of which make the city of God glad, the holy place of the tents of the Most High.

• Psalms 48:9

  We have thought about your loving kindness, God, in the middle of your temple.

• Psalms 48:11

  Let Mount Zion be glad! Let the daughters of Judah rejoice, Because of your judgments.

• Psalms 52:8

  But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God’s house. I trust in God’s loving kindness forever and ever.

• Psalms 55:14

  We took sweet fellowship together. We walked in God’s house with company.

• Psalms 61:4

  I will dwell in your tent forever. I will take refuge in the shelter of your wings. Selah.

• Psalms 63:2

  So I have seen you in the sanctuary, watching your power and your glory.

• Psalms 65:4

  Blessed is one whom you choose, and cause to come near, that he may live in your courts. We will be filled with the goodness of your house, your holy temple.

• Psalms 68:17

  The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of thousands. The Lord is among them, from Sinai, into the sanctuary.

• Psalms 68:24

  They have seen your processions, God, even the processions of my God, my King, into the sanctuary.

• Psalms 68:29

  Because of your temple at Jerusalem, kings shall bring presents to you.

• Psalms 73:17

  Until I entered God’s sanctuary, and considered their latter end.

• Psalms 74:2

  Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance; Mount Zion, in which you have lived.

• Psalms 74:3

  Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.

• Psalms 74:7

  They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.

• Psalms 76:2

  His tabernacle is also in Salem; His dwelling place in Zion.

• Psalms 77:13

  Your way, God, is in the sanctuary. What god is great like God?

• Psalms 78:69

  He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever.

• Psalms 79:1

  A Psalm by Asaph. God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

• Psalms 84:2

  My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

• Psalms 84:10

  For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

• Psalms 89:7

  a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones, to be feared above all those who are around him?

• Psalms 92:13

  They are planted in Yahweh’s house. They will flourish in our God’s courts.

• Psalms 96:8

  Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name. Bring an offering, and come into his courts.

• Psalms 100:4

  Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, and bless his name.

• Psalms 111:1

  Praise Yah! I will give thanks to Yahweh with my whole heart, in the council of the upright, and in the congregation.

• Psalms 116:19

  in the courts of Yahweh’s house, in the middle of you, Jerusalem. Praise Yah!

• Psalms 118:26

  Blessed is he who comes in Yahweh’s name! We have blessed you out of Yahweh’s house.

• Psalms 122:1

  A Song of Ascents. By David. I was glad when they said to me, “Let’s go to Yahweh’s house!”

• Psalms 122:9

  For the sake of the house of Yahweh our God, I will seek your good.

• Psalms 132:13

  For Yahweh has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation.

• Psalms 134:1

  A Song of Ascents. Look! Praise Yahweh, all you servants of Yahweh, who stand by night in Yahweh’s house!

• Psalms 137:1

  By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

• Psalms 138:2

  I will bow down toward your holy temple, and give thanks to your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth; for you have exalted your Name and your Word above all.

• Psalms 150:1

  Praise Yah! Praise God in his sanctuary! Praise him in his heavens for his acts of power!

• Ecclesiastes 5:1

  Guard your steps when you go to God’s house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don’t know that they do evil.

• Ecclesiastes 8:10

  So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity.

• Isaiah 1:12

  When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?

• Isaiah 2:2

  It shall happen in the latter days, that the mountain of Yahweh’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it.

• Isaiah 2:3

  Many peoples shall go and say, “Come, let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For out of Zion the law shall go out, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem.

• Isaiah 6:1

  In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.

• Isaiah 16:12

  It will happen that when Moab presents himself, when he wearies himself on the high place, and comes to his sanctuary to pray, that he will not prevail.

• Isaiah 35:10

  The Yahweh’s ransomed ones will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”

• Isaiah 37:14

  Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to Yahweh’s house, and spread it before Yahweh.

• Isaiah 56:7

  I will bring these to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house will be called a house of prayer for all peoples.”

• Isaiah 57:15

  For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

• Isaiah 62:9

  but those who have harvested it will eat it, and praise Yahweh; and those who have gathered it will drink it in the courts of my sanctuary.”

• Isaiah 63:18

  Your holy people possessed it but a little while. Our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.

• Isaiah 64:11

  Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste.

• Jeremiah 17:26

  They shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places around Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the lowland, and from the hill country, and from the South, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meal offerings, and frankincense, and bringing sacrifices of thanksgiving, to Yahweh’s house.

• Jeremiah 20:1

  Now Pashhur, the son of Immer the priest, who was chief officer in Yahweh’s house, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things.

• Jeremiah 20:2

  Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in Yahweh’s house.

• Jeremiah 26:2

  “Yahweh says: ‘Stand in the court of Yahweh’s house, and speak to all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in Yahweh’s house, all the words that I command you to speak to them. Don’t omit a word.

• Jeremiah 26:7

  The priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in Yahweh’s house.

• Jeremiah 28:1

  That same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, Hananiah the son of Azzur, the prophet, who was of Gibeon, spoke to me in Yahweh’s house, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,

• Jeremiah 28:5

  Then the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people who stood in Yahweh’s house,

• Jeremiah 29:26

  “Yahweh has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in Yahweh’s house, for every man who is mad, and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles.

• Jeremiah 31:6

  For there will be a day that the watchmen on the hills of Ephraim cry, ‘Arise, and let us go up to Zion to Yahweh our God.’”

• Jeremiah 35:2

  “Go to the house of the Rechabites, and speak to them, and bring them into Yahweh’s house, into one of the rooms, and give them wine to drink.”

• Jeremiah 36:5

  Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, “I am restricted. I can’t go into Yahweh’s house.

• Jeremiah 36:6

  Therefore you go, and read from the scroll, which you have written from my mouth, Yahweh’s words in the ears of the people in Yahweh’s house on the fast day. Also you shall read them in the ears of all Judah who come out of their cities.

• Jeremiah 38:14

  Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet to himself into the third entry that is in Yahweh’s house. Then the king said to Jeremiah, “I will ask you something. Hide nothing from me.”

• Jeremiah 41:5

  men came from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even eighty men, having their beards shaved and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with meal offerings and frankincense in their hand, to bring them to Yahweh’s house.

• Jeremiah 50:5

  They will inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned toward it, saying, ‘Come, and join yourselves to Yahweh in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten.’

• Jeremiah 51:51

  “We are confounded, because we have heard reproach. Confusion has covered our faces, for strangers have come into the sanctuaries of Yahweh’s house.”

• Lamentations 2:7

  The 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.

• Lamentations 2:20

  “Look, Yahweh, and see to whom you have done thus! Shall the women eat their offspring, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

• Lamentations 4:1

  How the gold has become dim! The most pure gold has changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.

• Ezekiel 5:11

  Therefore as I live,’ says the Lord Yahweh, ‘surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore I will also diminish you. My eye won’t spare, and I will have no pity.

• Ezekiel 23:39

  For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and behold, thus have they done in the middle of my house.

• Ezekiel 41:4

  He measured its length, twenty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said to me, This is the most holy place.

• Ezekiel 42:13

  Then he said to me, The north rooms and the south rooms, which are before the separate place, they are the holy rooms, where the priests who are near to Yahweh shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meal offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy.

• Ezekiel 42:20

  He measured it on the four sides: it had a wall around it, the length five hundred, and the width five hundred, to make a separation between that which was holy and that which was common.

• Ezekiel 44:4

  Then he brought me by the way of the north gate before the house; and I looked, and behold, Yahweh’s glory filled Yahweh’s house: and I fell on my face.

• Ezekiel 44:5

  Yahweh said to me, Son of man, mark well, and see with your eyes, and hear with your ears all that I tell you concerning all the ordinances of Yahweh’s house, and all its laws; and mark well the entrance of the house, with every exit of the sanctuary.

• Ezekiel 44:27

  In the day that he goes into the sanctuary, into the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering, says the Lord Yahweh.

• Ezekiel 45:3

  Of this measure you shall measure a length of twenty-five thousand, and a width of ten thousand: and in it shall be the sanctuary, which is most holy.

• Ezekiel 45:4

  It is a holy portion of the land; it shall be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to minister to Yahweh; and it shall be a place for their houses, and a holy place for the sanctuary.

• Ezekiel 48:8

  By the border of Judah, from the east side to the west side, shall be the offering which you shall offer, twenty-five thousand reeds in width, and in length as one of the portions, from the east side to the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in the middle of it.

• Ezekiel 48:21

  The remainder shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy offering and of the possession of the city; in front of the twenty-five thousand of the offering toward the east border, and westward in front of the twenty-five thousand toward the west border, answerable to the portions, it shall be for the prince: and the holy offering and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the middle of it.

• Daniel 8:11

  Yes, it magnified itself, even to the prince of the army; and it took away from him the continual burnt offering, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.

• Daniel 8:13

  Then I heard a holy one speaking; and another holy one said to that certain one who spoke, How long shall be the vision about the continual burnt offering, and the disobedience that makes desolate, to give both the sanctuary and the army to be trodden under foot?

• Daniel 8:14

  He said to me, To two thousand and three hundred evenings and mornings; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.

• Daniel 9:17

  Now therefore, our God, listen to the prayer of your servant, and to his petitions, and cause your face to shine on your sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord’s sake.

• Daniel 9:26

  After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One shall be cut off, and shall have nothing: and the people of the prince who shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and its end shall be with a flood, and even to the end shall be war; desolations are determined.

• Daniel 11:31

  Forces shall stand on his part, and they shall profane the sanctuary, even the fortress, and shall take away the continual burnt offering, and they shall set up the abomination that makes desolate.

• Hosea 9:8

  A prophet watches over Ephraim with my God. A fowler’s snare is on all of his paths, and hostility in the house of his God.

• Joel 1:16

  Isn’t the food cut off before our eyes; joy and gladness from the house of our God?

• Joel 2:1

  Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of Yahweh comes, for it is close at hand:

• Joel 2:15

  Blow the trumpet in Zion! Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly.

• Jonah 2:4

  I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’

• Jonah 2:7

  “When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.

• Micah 1:2

  Hear, you peoples, all of you. Listen, O earth, and all that is therein: and let the Lord Yahweh be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.

• Micah 4:2

  Many nations will go and say, “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law will go out of Zion, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem;

• Habakkuk 2:20

  But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!”

• Haggai 1:2

  “This is what Yahweh of Armies says: These people say, ‘The time hasn’t yet come, the time for Yahweh’s house to be built.’”

• Zechariah 3:7

  “Yahweh of Armies says: ‘If you will walk in my ways, and if you will follow my instructions, then you also shall judge my house, and shall also keep my courts, and I will give you a place of access among these who stand by.

• Zechariah 7:2

  The people of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regem Melech, and their men, to entreat Yahweh’s favor,

• Zechariah 8:9

  Yahweh of Armies says: “Let your hands be strong, you who hear in these days these words from the mouth of the prophets who were in the day that the foundation of the house of Yahweh of Armies was laid, even the temple, that it might be built.

• Malachi 3:1

  “Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!” says Yahweh of Armies.

• Matthew 4:5

  Then the devil took him into the holy city. He set him on the pinnacle of the temple,

• Matthew 12:4

  how he entered into God’s house, and ate the show bread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for those who were with him, but only for the priests?

• Matthew 16:18

  I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

• Matthew 18:17

  If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.

• Matthew 21:13

  He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers!”

• Matthew 23:16

  “Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.’

• Matthew 24:15

  “When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),

• Luke 18:10

  “Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector.

• Luke 24:53

  and were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.

• John 2:16

  To those who sold the doves, he said, “Take these things out of here! Don’t make my Father’s house a marketplace!”

• John 14:2

  In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.

• Acts 2:47

  praising God, and having favor with all the people. The Lord added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved.

• Acts 6:13

  and set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.

• Acts 21:28

  crying out, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place. Moreover, he also brought Greeks into the temple, and has defiled this holy place!”

• 1 Corinthians 3:17

  If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, which you are.

• 1 Corinthians 11:18

  For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.

• 1 Corinthians 14:19

  However in the assembly I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in another language.

• 1 Corinthians 14:23

  If therefore the whole assembly is assembled together and all speak with other languages, and unlearned or unbelieving people come in, won’t they say that you are crazy?

• 1 Corinthians 14:28

  But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in the assembly, and let him speak to himself, and to God.

• 1 Corinthians 14:33

  for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.

• 1 Corinthians 14:34

  Let the women be quiet in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to be talking except in submission, as the law also says,

• 1 Corinthians 15:9

  For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.

• Galatians 1:13

  For you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God, and ravaged it.

• Ephesians 1:22

  He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly,

• Ephesians 1:23

  which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

• Ephesians 2:21

  in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;

• Ephesians 3:17

  that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

• 1 Timothy 3:15

  but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

• Hebrews 8:2

  a servant of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.

• Hebrews 8:5

  who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, “See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain.”

• Hebrews 9:1

  Now indeed even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service, and an earthly sanctuary.

• Hebrews 9:2

  For a tabernacle was prepared. In the first part were the lamp stand, the table, and the show bread; which is called the Holy Place.

• Hebrews 9:11

  But Christ having come as a high priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,

• Hebrews 9:12

  nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption.

• Hebrews 9:25

  nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy place year by year with blood not his own,

• Hebrews 10:21

  and having a great priest over God’s house,

• 1 Peter 4:17

  For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God?

• Revelation 13:6

  He opened his mouth for blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his dwelling, those who dwell in heaven.

• Revelation 21:3

  I 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.