Numbers 35:34
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Do not defile the land where you live and where I dwell. For I, the LORD, dwell among the Israelites.”
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And they were not to desecrate the land in which they dwelt by tolerating murderers, because Jehovah, the Holy One, dwelt in it, among the children of Israel (cf. Lev 18:25.).
Open source ↗We have in this chapter the determination of another question that arose upon the case of the daughters of Zelophehad. God had appointed that they should inherit, Num 27:7. Now here, I. An inconvenience is suggested, in case they should marry into any other tribe (Num 36:1-4). II. It is prevented by a divine appointment that they should marry in their own tribe and family (Num 36:5-7), and this is settled for a rule in like cases (Num 36:8, Num 36:9); and they did marry accordingly to some of their own relations (Num 36:10-12), and with this the book concludes (Num 36:13).
Open source ↗35:34 The Lord lived among the people of Israel even as the Tabernacle stood in the middle of the Hebrew camp (see chs 1–4). This meant that they must not defile their land by ignoring God’s commands or by failing to uphold justice (cp. 5:1-4).
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You must send away male and female alike; send them outside the camp so they will not defile their camp, where I dwell among them.”
But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
Blessed be the LORD from Zion— He who dwells in Jerusalem. Hallelujah!
For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.
And they are to make a sanctuary for Me, so that I may dwell among them.
And I will dwell among the Israelites and will not abandon My people Israel.”
“This is My resting place forever and ever; here I will dwell, for I have desired this home.
They will not remain in the land of the LORD; Ephraim will return to Egypt and eat unclean food in Assyria.
“Do not call conspiracy everything these people regard as conspiracy. Do not fear what they fear; do not live in dread.
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.