Psalm 68:16

Why do you look with envy, O mountains with many peaks, at the mountain where God has decided to live? Indeed the Lord will live there permanently!

Deuteronomy 12:5

But you must seek only the place he chooses from all your tribes to establish his name as his place of residence, and you must go there.

Psalm 132:13-14

Certainly the Lord has chosen Zion; he decided to make it his home.

Deuteronomy 12:11

Then you must come to the place the Lord your God chooses for his name to reside, bringing everything I am commanding you -- your burnt offerings, sacrifices, tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, and all your choice votive offerings which you devote to him.

1 Kings 9:3

The Lord said to him, "I have answered your prayer and your request for help that you made to me. I have consecrated this temple you built by making it my permanent home; I will be constantly present there.

Psalm 87:1-2

Written by the Korahites; a psalm, a song. The Lord's city is in the holy hills.

Psalm 114:4

The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.

Psalm 114:6

Why do you skip like rams, O mountains, like lambs, O hills?

Isaiah 2:2

In the future the mountain of the Lord's temple will endure as the most important of mountains, and will be the most prominent of hills. All the nations will stream to it,

Hebrews 12:22-23

But you have come to Mount Zion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, to the assembly

Revelation 21:2-3

And I saw the holy city -- the new Jerusalem -- descending out of heaven from God, made ready like a bride adorned for her husband.

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Summary

Why leap ye, ye high hills? this is the hill which God desireth to dwell in; yea, the LORD will dwell in it for ever.

General references

Bible References

Why

Psalm 114:4
The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.
Isaiah 2:2
In the future the mountain of the Lord's temple will endure as the most important of mountains, and will be the most prominent of hills. All the nations will stream to it,

General references

Psalm 114:4
The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.
Isaiah 2:14
for all the tall mountains, for all the high hills,

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