22 Bible Verses about God's Dwelling

Can you, O God, really live on earth? Not even heaven or the heaven of heavens is large enough to hold you. How can this Temple I have built be large enough?

until I find a place for Jehovah, a dwelling place for the Mighty One of Jacob.

You will bring them and plant them on your own mountain, the place where you live, O Jehovah, the holy place that you built with your own hands, O Jehovah.

Now I have built a majestic temple for you, a place for you to live in for a very long time.

Using your powerful love, you rescued (redeemed) the people.

O Jehovah, I love the place where you live, the home (spiritual retreat) (heart and mind) where your glory dwells.

([Psalm of Korah]) How lovely are your dwelling places, O Jehovah of Hosts!

Why do you look with envy (desire) (greed), you mountains with many peaks, at the mountain where God has chosen to live? Certainly, Jehovah will live there forever.

I will bring them to my holy mountain and give them joy in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on my altar. My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations.

Solomon prayed: Jehovah, you have placed the sun in the sky, yet you have chosen to live in clouds and darkness.

Guard your step when you go to the house of God. It is better to go there and listen than to bring the sacrifices fools bring. Fools are not aware that they do evil.

You looked for much harvest and you received little. When you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? Said Jehovah of Hosts. Because my house lies in waste, while each of you run to his house.

Be silent, all flesh, before Jehovah, for he is aroused out of his holy dwelling.

In my Father's house are many dwelling places. If it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool. What house will you build me? Said Jehovah God. What is the place of my rest? (Isaiah 66:1)

He was faithful to Him who appointed him, just as Moses was in His entire house.

Christ was faithful as a Son over God's house. We are His house if we hold on to our courage (confidence) and rejoice (speak boldly) about our hope until the end.

having a high priest over the house of God,

Does God really live on earth with people? If heaven and the highest heaven cannot hold you, then how can this Temple that I have built?

No one can really build a Temple for God. This is because even all the vastness of heaven cannot contain him. How then can I build a Temple that would be anything more than a place to burn incense to God?

For David had said: Since Jehovah, the God of Israel, has granted rest to his people and has come to dwell in Jerusalem from generation to generation,