Thematic Bible: For God's house


Thematic Bible





How blessed is the one whom you choose, and allow to live in your palace courts. May we be satisfied with the good things of your house -- your holy palace.

Now, to show my commitment to the temple of my God, I donate my personal treasure of gold and silver to the temple of my God, in addition to all that I have already supplied for this holy temple.

O Lord, I love the temple where you live, the place where your splendor is revealed.

I desperately want to be in the courts of the Lord's temple. My heart and my entire being shout for joy to the living God.

Certainly spending just one day in your temple courts is better than spending a thousand elsewhere. I would rather stand at the entrance to the temple of my God than live in the tents of the wicked.

The Israelites and the Levites will bring the contribution of the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil to the storerooms where the utensils of the sanctuary are kept, and where the priests who minister stay, along with the gatekeepers and the singers. We will not neglect the temple of our God."

A song of ascents, by David. I was glad because they said to me, "We will go to the Lord's temple."



You must keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary. I am the Lord.


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