Psalm 27:4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple.

Seek

Dwell

Behold

Zechariah 9:9

2 Corinthians 3:18

2 Corinthians 4:6

General references

1 Samuel 1:9

2 Chronicles 9:7

Bible References

Seek

When you said, Make search for my face, my heart said to you, For your face will I make my search.

And you will be searching for me and I will be there, when you have gone after me with all your heart.

And turning my face to the Lord God, I gave myself up to prayer, requesting his grace, going without food, in haircloth and dust.

But let your first care be for his kingdom and his righteousness; and all these other things will be given to you in addition.

Make a request, and it will be answered; what you are searching for you will get; give the sign, and the door will be open to you:

And I say to you, Make requests, and they will be answered; what you are searching for, you will get; when you give the sign, the door will be open to you.

Do your best to go in by the narrow door, for I say to you, A number will make the attempt to go in, but will not be able to do so.

And he made a story for them, the point of which was that men were to go on making prayer and not get tired;

And without faith it is not possible to be well-pleasing to him, for it is necessary for anyone who comes to God to have the belief that God is, and that he is a rewarder of all those who make a serious search for him.

Dwell

I will make my hands clean from sin; so will I go round your altar, O Lord;

Happy is the man of your selection, to whom you give a resting-place in your house; we will be full of the good things out of your holy place.

Happy are they whose resting-place is in your house: they will still be praising you. (Selah.)

And she made an oath, and said, O Lord of armies, if you will truly take note of the sorrow of your servant, not turning away from me but keeping me in mind, and will give me a man-child, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and his hair will never be cut.

She had been a widow for eighty-four years); she was in the Temple at all times, worshipping with prayers and going without food, night and day.

Now she who is truly a widow and without family puts her hope in God, giving herself to prayer day and night.

Behold

Be full of joy, O daughter of Zion; give a glad cry, O daughter of Jerusalem: see, your king comes to you: he is upright and has overcome; gentle and seated on an ass, on a young ass.

But we all, with unveiled face giving back as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord who is the Spirit.

Seeing that it is God who said, Let light be shining out of the dark, who has put in our hearts the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

General references

So after they had taken food and wine in the guest room, Hannah got up. Now Eli the priest was seated by the pillars of the doorway of the Temple of the Lord.

Happy are your wives and happy these your servants whose place is ever before you, hearing your words of wisdom.