'House' in the Bible

I will enter Your house with burnt offerings;I will pay You my vows

because zeal for Your house has consumed me,and the insults of those who insult Youhave fallen on me.

How happy are those who reside in Your house,who praise You continually.Selah

Better a day in Your courtsthan a thousand anywhere else.I would rather be at the door of the house of my Godthan to live in the tents of wicked people.

Planted in the house of the Lord,they thrive in the courts of our God.

Lord, Your testimonies are completely reliable;holiness is the beauty of Your housefor all the days to come.

He has remembered His loveand faithfulness to the house of Israel;all the ends of the earthhave seen our God’s victory.

I will pay attention to the way of integrity.When will You come to me?I will live with a heart of integrity in my house.

Wealth and riches are in his house,and his righteousness endures forever.

When Israel came out of Egypt—the house of Jacob from a peoplewho spoke a foreign language—

House of Aaron, trust in the Lord!He is their help and shield.

The Lord remembers us and will bless us.He will bless the house of Israel;He will bless the house of Aaron;

in the courts of the Lord’s house—within you, Jerusalem.Hallelujah!

Let the house of Aaron say,“His faithful love endures forever.”

He who comes in the nameof the Lord is blessed.From the house of the Lord we bless you.

A Davidic song of ascents.I rejoiced with those who said to me,“Let us go to the house of the Lord.”

There, thrones for judgment are placed,thrones of the house of David.

Because of the house of the Lord our God,I will seek your good.

A Solomonic song of ascents.Unless the Lord builds a house,its builders labor over it in vain;unless the Lord watches over a city,the watchman stays alert in vain.

Your wife will be like a fruitful vinewithin your house,your sons, like young olive treesaround your table.

“I will not enter my houseor get into my bed,

A song of ascents.Now praise the Lord,all you servants of the Lordwho stand in the Lord’s house at night!

who stand in the house of Yahweh,in the courts of the house of our God.

House of Israel, praise Yahweh!House of Aaron, praise Yahweh!

House of Levi, praise Yahweh!You who revere the Lord, praise the Lord!

for her house sinks down to deathand her ways to the land of the departed spirits.

Keep your way far from her.Don’t go near the door of her house.

strangers will drain your resources,and your earnings will end up in a foreigner’s house.

Still, if caught, he must pay seven times as much;he must give up all the wealth in his house.

At the window of my houseI looked through my lattice.

Crossing the street near her corner,he strolled down the road to her house

Her house is the road to Sheol,descending to the chambers of death.

Wisdom has built her house;she has carved out her seven pillars.

She sits by the doorway of her house,on a seat at the highest point of the city,

The wicked are overthrown and perish,but the house of the righteous will stand.

Every wise woman builds her house,but a foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

The house of the wicked will be destroyed,but the tent of the upright will stand.

The house of the righteous has great wealth,but trouble accompanies the income of the wicked.

The Lord destroys the house of the proud,but He protects the widow’s territory.

Better a dry crust with peacethan a house full of feasting with strife.

If anyone returns evil for good,evil will never depart from his house.

A house and wealth are inherited from fathers,but a sensible wife is from the Lord.

Better to live on the corner of a roofthan to share a house with a nagging wife.

The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked;He brings the wicked to ruin.

A house is built by wisdom,and it is established by understanding;

Complete your outdoor work, and prepare your field;afterward, build your house.

Seldom set foot in your neighbor’s house;otherwise, he’ll get sick of you and hate you.

Better to live on the corner of a roofthan to share a house with a nagging wife.

Don’t abandon your friend or your father’s friend,and don’t go to your brother’s housein your time of calamity;better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.

I acquired male and female servants and had slaves who were born in my house. I also owned many herds of cattle and flocks, more than all who were before me in Jerusalem.

Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Better to draw near in obedience than to offer the sacrifice as fools do, for they ignorantly do wrong.

It is better to go to a house of mourningthan to go to a house of feasting,since that is the end of all mankind,and the living should take it to heart.

The heart of the wise is in a house of mourning,but the heart of fools is in a house of pleasure.

Because of laziness the roof caves in,and because of negligent hands the house leaks.

on the day when the guardians of the house tremble,and the strong men stoop,the women who grind cease because they are few,and the ones who watch through the windows see dimly,

the beams of our house are cedars,and our rafters are cypresses. >

I had just passed themwhen I found the one I love.I held on to him and would not let him gountil I brought him to my mother’s house—to the chamber of the one who conceived me.

I would lead you, I would take you,to the house of my mother who taught me.I would give you spiced wine to drinkfrom my pomegranate juice.

In the last daysthe mountain of the Lord’s house will be establishedat the top of the mountainsand will be raised above the hills.All nations will stream to it,

and many peoples will come and say,“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,to the house of the God of Jacob.He will teach us about His waysso that we may walk in His paths.”For instruction will go out of Zionand the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

House of Jacob,come and let us walk in the Lord’s light.

For You have abandoned Your people,the house of Jacob,because they are full of divination from the Eastand of fortune-tellers like the Philistines.They are in league with foreigners.

A man will even seize his brotherin his father’s house, saying:“You have a cloak—you be our leader!This heap of rubble will be under your control.”

On that day he will cry out, saying:“I’m not a healer.I don’t even have food or clothing in my house.Don’t make me the leader of the people!”

For the vineyard of the Lord of Hostsis the house of Israel,and the men of Judah,the plant He delighted in.He looked for justicebut saw injustice,for righteousness,but heard cries of wretchedness.

Woe to those who add house to houseand join field to fielduntil there is no more roomand you alone are left in the land.

When it became known to the house of David that Aram had occupied Ephraim, the heart of Ahaz and the hearts of his people trembled like trees of a forest shaking in the wind.

Isaiah said, “Listen, house of David! Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men? Will you also try the patience of my God?

The Lord will bring on you, your people, and the house of your father, such a time as has never been since Ephraim separated from Judah—the king of Assyria is coming.”

I will wait for the Lord,who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob.I will wait for Him.

On that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no longer depend on the one who struck them, but they will faithfully depend on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.

For the Lord will have compassion on Jacob and will choose Israel again. He will settle them on their own land. The foreigner will join them and be united with the house of Jacob.

The nations will escort Israel and bring it to its homeland. Then the house of Israel will possess them as male and female slaves in the Lord’s land. They will make captives of their captors and will rule over their oppressors.

He removed the defenses of Judah.On that day you looked to the weapons in the House of the Forest.

wind you up into a ball, and sling you into a wide land. There you will die, and there your glorious chariots will be—a disgrace to the house of your lord.

I will clothe him with your robe and tie your sash around him. I will put your authority into his hand, and he will be like a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the House of Judah.

I will place the key of the House of David on his shoulder; what he opens, no one can close; what he closes, no one can open.

I will drive him, like a peg, into a firm place. He will be a throne of honor for his father’s house.

They will hang on him the whole burden of his father’s house: the descendants and the offshoots—all the small vessels, from bowls to every kind of jar.

The city of chaos is shattered;every house is closed to entry.

Therefore, the Lord who redeemed Abraham says this about the house of Jacob:Jacob will no longer be ashamedand his face will no longer be pale.

But He also is wise and brings disaster.He does not go back on what He says;He will rise up against the house of wicked menand against the allies of evildoers.

for the ground of my peoplegrowing thorns and briers,indeed, for every joyous house in the joyful city.

When King Hezekiah heard their report, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and went to the Lord’s temple.

Hezekiah took the letter from the messengers, read it, then went up to the Lord’s temple and spread it out before the Lord.

The surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root downward and bear fruit upward.

The Lord will save me;we will play stringed instrumentsall the days of our livesat the house of the Lord.

Hezekiah was pleased with them, and showed them his treasure house—the silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious oil—and all his armory, and everything that was found in his treasuries. There was nothing in his palace and in all his realm that Hezekiah did not show them.

in order to open blind eyes,to bring out prisoners from the dungeon,and those sitting in darkness from the prison house.

“Listen to Me, house of Jacob,all the remnant of the house of Israel,who have been sustained from the womb,carried along since birth.

“Listen to this, house of Jacob—those who are called by the name Israeland have descended from Judah,who swear by the name of Yahwehand declare the God of Israel,but not in truth or righteousness.

I will give them, in My house and within My walls,a memorial and a namebetter than sons and daughters.I will give each of them an everlasting namethat will never be cut off.

I will bring them to My holy mountainand let them rejoice in My house of prayer.Their burnt offerings and sacrificeswill be acceptable on My altar,for My house will be called a house of prayerfor all nations.”

“Cry out loudly, don’t hold back!Raise your voice like a trumpet.Tell My people their transgressionand the house of Jacob their sins.

Is it not to share your bread with the hungry,to bring the poor and homeless into your house,to clothe the naked when you see him,and not to ignore your own flesh and blood?

All the flocks of Kedar will be gathered to you;the rams of Nebaioth will serve youand go up on My altar as an acceptable sacrifice.I will glorify My beautiful house.

I will make known the Lord’s faithful loveand the Lord’s praiseworthy acts,because of all the Lord has done for us—even the many good thingsHe has done for the house of Israeland has done for them based on His compassionand the abundance of His faithful love.

This is what the Lord says:Heaven is My throne,and earth is My footstool.What house could you possibly build for Me?And what place could be My home?

They will bring all your brothers from all the nations as a gift to the Lord on horses and chariots, in litters, and on mules and camels, to My holy mountain Jerusalem,” says the Lord, “just as the Israelites bring an offering in a clean vessel to the house of the Lord.

Hear the word of the Lord, house of Jacoband all families of the house of Israel.