2 Samuel 15:25

The Priests Offer Sacrifices For David

²⁴ Now Zadok also came, and all the Levites with him carrying the ark of the covenant of God. And they set down the ark of God, and Abiathar [the priest] came up [and officiated] until all the people had finished passing from the city. ²⁵ Then the king told Zadok, “Take the ark of God back to [its rightful place in] the city [of Jerusalem, the capital]. If I find favor in the Lord’s sight, He will bring me back again and let me see both it and His dwelling place (habitation). ²⁶ But if He should say, ‘I have no delight in you,’ then here I am; let Him do to me what seems good to Him.”

Ark of God

Ark of the Covenant

Carry the Ark

Eyes of the Lord

In the Sight of the Lord

Jehovah

Jerusalem

Zadok

Exodus 15:13

“You in Your lovingkindness and goodness have led the people whom You have redeemed;
In Your strength You have guided them with care to Your holy habitation.

Jeremiah 25:30

“Therefore prophesy all these words against them and say to them:

‘The Lord will roar from on high
And utter His voice from His holy dwelling;
He will roar mightily against His fold and pasture.
He will jubilantly shout like those who tread the grapes [in the wine press],
Against all the inhabitants of the earth.

1 Samuel 4:3-11

When the people (soldiers) came into the camp, the elders of Israel said, “Why has the Lord defeated us today before the Philistines? Let us bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord here from Shiloh, so that He may come among us and save us from the hand of our enemies.”

2 Samuel 6:17

They brought in the ark of the Lord and set it in its place inside the tent which David had pitched for it; and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.

2 Samuel 7:2

the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells within tent curtains.”

2 Samuel 12:10-11

Now, therefore, the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.’

Psalm 26:8

O Lord, I love the habitation of Your house
And the place where Your glory dwells.

Psalm 27:4-5

One thing I have asked of the Lord, and that I will seek:
That I may dwell in the house of the Lord [in His presence] all the days of my life,
To gaze upon the beauty [the delightful loveliness and majestic grandeur] of the Lord
And to meditate in His temple.

Psalm 42:1-2

As the deer pants [longingly] for the water brooks,
So my soul pants [longingly] for You, O God.

Psalm 43:3-4

O send out Your light and Your truth, let them lead me;
Let them bring me to Your holy hill
And to Your dwelling places.

Psalm 63:1-2

O God, You are my God; with deepest longing I will seek You;
My soul [my life, my very self] thirsts for You, my flesh longs and sighs for You,
In a dry and weary land where there is no water.

Psalm 84:1-3

How lovely are Your dwelling places,
O Lord of hosts!

Psalm 84:10

For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand [anywhere else];
I would rather stand [as a doorkeeper] at the threshold of the house of my God
Than to live [at ease] in the tents of wickedness.

Psalm 122:1

I was glad when they said to me,
“Let us go to the house of the Lord.”

Psalm 122:9

For the sake of the house of the Lord our God [which is Jerusalem],
I will seek your (the city’s) good.

Isaiah 38:22

Hezekiah also had said, “What is the sign that I will go up to the house of the Lord?”

Jeremiah 7:4

Do not trust in the deceptive and lying words [of the false prophets who claim that Jerusalem will be protected by God because of the temple], saying, ‘This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.’