80 Bible Verses About Dwelling Place

Bible verses about Dwelling Place

Understanding "Dwelling Place" through scripture reveals a profound truth: God desires intimacy with humanity. These verses illuminate more than just physical locations; they unveil a spiritual reality. God's dwelling transcends earthly temples, residing within the hearts of believers. Exploring these passages encourages us to cultivate a heart-space where the divine can reside, fostering a deep connection with our Creator. As we meditate on these words, may we find ourselves drawn closer to the ultimate "Dwelling Place," experiencing the peace and fulfillment that comes from abiding in His presence. Let these verses guide you on a journey toward understanding your own heart as a temple for the divine.

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Psalms 61:4 (KJV)

I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of thy wings. Selah.

Finding Your Dwelling Place: Bible Verses & Guidance

Ye that stand in the house of the Lord, in the courts of the house of our God,

Psalms 135:2KJV

Their pillars were twenty, and their brasen sockets twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.

Exodus 38:10KJV

Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause,

1 Kings 8:49KJV

And he made boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood, standing up.

Exodus 36:20KJV

Until I find out a place for the Lord, an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob.

Psalms 132:5KJV

And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was reared up.

Exodus 40:17KJV

And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood standing up.

Exodus 26:15KJV

Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

Psalms 48:2KJV

(For they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy strong hand, and of thy stretched out arm;) when he shall come and pray toward this house;

1 Kings 8:42KJV

And when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of the Lord, and journeyed not.

Numbers 9:19KJV

And there I will meet with the children of Israel, and the tabernacle shall be sanctified by my glory.

Exodus 29:43KJV

On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.

Exodus 40:2KJV

And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasseh; and he dwelt therein.

Numbers 32:40KJV

The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub.

1 Kings 6:26KJV

Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is among them.

Leviticus 15:31KJV

Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.

Psalms 90:1KJV

Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.

Isaiah 12:6KJV

And shall put thereon the covering of badgers’ skins, and shall spread over it a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in the staves thereof.

Numbers 4:6KJV

And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary: and the other did set up the tabernacle against they came.

Numbers 10:21KJV

And thou shalt set the altar of the burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.

Exodus 40:6KJV

And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of the congregation before the testimony, where I will meet with you.

Numbers 17:4KJV

Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause, and forgive thy people which have sinned against thee.

2 Chronicles 6:39KJV

And thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt gather the whole assembly of the children of Israel together:

Numbers 8:9KJV

Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.

Joshua 2:15KJV

Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house, O Lord, for ever.

Psalms 93:5KJV

And this is the charge of their burden, according to all their service in the tabernacle of the congregation; the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and sockets thereof,

Numbers 4:31KJV

Judah became His sanctuary, Israel his dominion.

Psalms 114:2YLT

And he put the table in the tent of the congregation, upon the side of the tabernacle northward, without the vail.

Exodus 40:22KJV

They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.

Psalms 74:7KJV

And they brought that which Moses commanded before the tabernacle of the congregation: and all the congregation drew near and stood before the Lord.

Leviticus 9:5KJV

And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.

Exodus 25:8KJV

Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem.

Psalms 122:2KJV

When the Lord shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory.

Psalms 102:16KJV

But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.

Psalms 5:7KJV

The hangings of the court, his pillars, and his sockets, and the hanging for the court gate, his cords, and his pins, and all the vessels of the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of the congregation,

Exodus 39:40KJV

And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.

1 Kings 6:19KJV

And on the other side shall be hangings fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.

Exodus 27:15KJV

But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.

Isaiah 13:21KJV

And he made boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the south side southward:

Exodus 36:23KJV

So David would not remove the ark of the Lord unto him into the city of David: but David carried it aside into the house of Obed–edom the Gittite.

2 Samuel 6:10KJV

Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths:

Leviticus 23:42KJV

And the men of Kirjath–jearim came, and fetched up the ark of the Lord, and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, and sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of the Lord.

1 Samuel 7:1KJV

And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the Lord, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the Lord: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done any more.

Jeremiah 3:16KJV

I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of thy wings. Selah.

Psalms 61:4KJV

And the Lord called unto Moses, and spake unto him out of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying,

Leviticus 1:1KJV

And David gathered all Israel together to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the Lord unto his place, which he had prepared for it.

1 Chronicles 15:3KJV

There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.

Psalms 46:4KJV

And he set the cherubims within the inner house: and they stretched forth the wings of the cherubims, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the midst of the house.

1 Kings 6:27KJV

For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.

Psalms 79:7KJV

And the great court round about was with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of the Lord, and for the porch of the house.

1 Kings 7:12KJV

And he set up the hanging at the door of the tabernacle.

Exodus 40:28KJV

And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her.

Psalms 87:5KJV

Therefore shall ye abide at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation day and night seven days, and keep the charge of the Lord, that ye die not: for so I am commanded.

Leviticus 8:35KJV

And the cities shall they have to dwell in; and the suburbs of them shall be for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their beasts.

Numbers 35:3KJV

Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for; that all people of the earth may know thy name, and fear thee, as doth thy people Israel, and may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name.

2 Chronicles 6:33KJV

But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.

Psalms 78:68KJV

And Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle of the congregation.

Numbers 16:43KJV

Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.

Psalms 51:18KJV

Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.

Exodus 40:34KJV

And the Lord God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:

2 Chronicles 36:15KJV

Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortress.

Psalms 71:3KJV

And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever.

Psalms 78:69KJV

And Moses reared up the tabernacle, and fastened his sockets, and set up the boards thereof, and put in the bars thereof, and reared up his pillars.

Exodus 40:18KJV

And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of the congregation there. And the land was subdued before them.

Joshua 18:1KJV

Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place?

Psalms 24:3KJV

And the Lord said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.

1 Kings 9:3KJV

And the covering of rams’ skins dyed red, and the covering of badgers’ skins, and the vail of the covering,

Exodus 39:34KJV

Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.

Job 39:6KJV

And under the custody and charge of the sons of Merari shall be the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and the sockets thereof, and all the vessels thereof, and all that serveth thereto,

Numbers 3:36KJV

Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;

Psalms 91:9KJV

And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: and hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place: and when thou hearest, forgive.

1 Kings 8:30KJV

And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents.

Deuteronomy 16:7KJV

All the vessels of the tabernacle in all the service thereof, and all the pins thereof, and all the pins of the court, shall be of brass.

Exodus 27:19KJV

And the Lord appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle.

Deuteronomy 31:15KJV

O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.

Psalms 43:3KJV

Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)

1 Kings 8:39KJV

The pins of the tabernacle, and the pins of the court, and their cords,

Exodus 35:18KJV

I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord.

Psalms 122:1KJV

So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;

Psalms 78:60KJV

And the house which king Solomon built for the Lord, the length thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits.

1 Kings 6:2KJV

Throughout Scripture, the concept of a "dwelling place" transcends mere physical structures, evolving to represent God's presence, intimate relationship, and eternal security. From the Tabernacle and Temple to the believer's own body as a temple of the Holy Spirit, these verses illustrate God's desire to intimately dwell with humanity. They highlight the importance of creating spaces, both physically and spiritually, that welcome and honor His presence. Reflecting on these passages encourages us to consider where we find our true dwelling place – is it in fleeting material possessions or in the steadfast love of God? By cultivating a heart that seeks His nearness and striving to embody His character, we build a dwelling place within ourselves where He can continually reside, offering peace, guidance, and everlasting hope. Let us actively pursue this sacred habitation, allowing it to transform our lives and radiating His light to the world around us.