and the slope of the valleys, that extends to the dwelling places of Ar and the borders of Moab.")

Jacob, your tents are so fine, as well as your dwelling places, O Israel!

Balaam also uttered this prophetic statement about the Kenites: "Your dwelling places are stable, because your nest is carved in solid rock.

The towns are to be reserved for their dwelling places and the grazing lands are to be reserved for their cattle, livestock, and all their animals.

then bring to the place that the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling place where he will establish his name everything that I'm commanding you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, your hand-carried gifts, and all your best offerings in fulfillment of promises that you pledged to the LORD.

The God of old is a dwelling place, with everlasting arms underneath. He drove out your enemies before you and said: "Destroy them!'

"""Are you going to build a house for me to inhabit? After all, I haven't lived in a house since the day I brought up the Israelis from Egypt until now. Instead, I've moved around in a tent that served as my dwelling place.

"There's nothing in his tent that belongs to him; sulfur is scattered all over his dwelling place.

to whom I've given the Arabah for a home; the salt plain for his dwelling place?

LORD, I love the dwelling place that is your house, the place where your glory resides.

From his dwelling place, he looks down on all the inhabitants of the earth.

Send forth your light and your truth so they may guide me. Let them bring me to your holy mountain and to your dwelling places.

A father to orphans and an advocate for widows is God in his holy dwelling place.

They burned your sanctuary to the ground, desecrating your dwelling place.

His abode is in Salem, his dwelling place in Zion.

For they consumed Jacob, making his dwelling place desolate.

How lovely are your dwelling places, LORD of the Heavenly Armies.

"LORD, you are my refuge!" Because you chose the Most High as your dwelling place,

until I locate a place for the LORD, a dwelling place for the Mighty One of Jacob."

Let's go to his dwelling place and worship at his footstool.

For the LORD has chosen Zion, desiring it as his dwelling place.

For this is what the LORD told me: "I will remain quiet and watch in my dwelling place like dazzling heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest."

"Hazor will become a dwelling place for jackals, a perpetual wasteland. No one will live there; no human being will reside in it."

I'll stretch out my hands to strike them and send devastation to the land, from the wilderness of Diblah, throughout all their dwelling places. Then they'll know that I am the LORD."

"You are to prophesy all these things against them, and you are to say to them, "The LORD roars from his high place, from his holy dwelling he lifts his voice. He roars loudly against his flock, and against all who live on the earth; he shouts like those treading grapes.

The arrogance in your heart has deceived you, who inhabit hidden places on rocky cliffs, whose dwelling is in the heights, who say continuously to yourself, 'Who will bring me down to the ground?'

"And truly you will know that I am the LORD your God, dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain. Then Jerusalem will be holy, and no foreigners will invade her again.

The LORD's curse is on the house of the wicked, but he blesses the dwelling of the righteous.

Look down from heaven, and see from your holy and glorious dwelling. Where are your zeal and your might? Where are the yearning of your heart and your compassion? They are held back from me.

"Look, I'm against you, city dwelling in the valley, rock of the plain," declares the LORD, "those of you who say, "Who can come down against us and who can enter our habitations?'

This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, says: "They'll again speak this message in the land of Judah and its towns when I restore their fortunes: "The LORD bless you, righteous dwelling, holy mountain.'

"You have led with your gracious love this people whom you redeemed. You have guided them with your strength to your holy dwelling.

Why, then, do all of you show contempt for my sacrifice and offering that I've commanded for my dwelling? And you honor your sons more than me in order to fatten yourselves from the best of all the offerings of my people Israel.'

Solomon's personal dwelling quarters, a separate court behind the hall, was of similar workmanship. Solomon also built a house similar to this for Pharaoh's daughter, whom Solomon had married.

"This is what the LORD says: "I'm going to restore the fortunes of the tents of Jacob and have compassion on his dwellings. A city will be rebuilt on its ruins and a palace will sit on its rightful place.

No one could see anyone else, nor could anyone get up from his place for three days. But there was light for all the Israelis in their dwellings.

My people will live in peaceful dwellings, in secure homes and in undisturbed resting places.