Leviticus 26:11
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And I will make My dwelling place among you, and My soul will not despise you.
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"I will make My dwelling among you, and My soul will not despise you." משׁכּן, applied to the dwelling of God among His people in the sanctuary, involves the idea of satisfied repose.
Open source ↗This chapter is a solemn conclusion of the main body of the levitical law. The precepts that follow in this and the following book either relate to some particular matters or are repetitions and explications of the foregoing institutions. Now this chapter contains a general enforcement of all those laws by promises of reward in case of obedience on the one hand, and threatenings of punishment for disobedience on the other hand, the former to work upon hope, the latter on fear, those two handles of the soul, by which it is taken hold of and managed. Here is, I. A repetition of two or three of the principal of the commandments (Lev 26:1, Lev 26:2). II. An inviting promise of all good things, if they would but keep God's commandments (Lev 26:3-13). III. A terrible threatening of ruining judgments which would be brought upon them if they were refractory and disobedient (v. 14-39). IV. A gracious promise of the return of mercy to those of them that would repent and reform (Lev 26:40, etc.). Deu. 28 is parallel to this.
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And they are to make a sanctuary for Me, so that I may dwell among them.
And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying: “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man, and He will dwell with them. They will be His people, and God Himself will be with them as their God.
Then I will dwell among the Israelites and be their God.
And in Him you too are being built together into a dwelling place for God in His Spirit.
His tent is in Salem, His dwelling place in Zion.
So the anger of the LORD burned against His people, and He abhorred His own inheritance.
You must not follow the statutes of the nations I am driving out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them.
If indeed the land of your inheritance is unclean, then cross over to the land of the LORD’s possession, where the LORD’s tabernacle stands, and take possession of it among us. But do not rebel against the LORD or against us by building for yourselves an altar other than the altar of the LORD our God.
But will God indeed dwell upon the earth? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.
I have indeed built You an exalted house, a place for You to dwell forever.”