Exodus 34:9
34:9 and said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, let my Lord
go among us, for we
are a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”
Deuteronomy 31:17
31:17 At that time
my anger will erupt against them
and I will abandon them and hide my face from them until they are devoured. Many disasters and distresses will overcome
them
so that they
will say at that time, ‘Have not these disasters
overcome us
because our
God is not among us
?’
Joshua 22:31
22:31 Phinehas, son of Eleazar, the priest, said to the Reubenites, Gadites, and the Manassehites,
“Today we know that the
Lord is among us, because you have not disobeyed the
Lord in this.
Now
you have rescued the Israelites from the
Lord’s judgment.”
Isaiah 12:6
12:6 Cry out and shout for joy, O citizens of Zion,
for the Holy One of Israel acts mightily among you!”
Micah 3:11
3:11 Her leaders take bribes when they decide legal cases,
her priests proclaim rulings for profit,
and her prophets read omens for pay.
Yet they claim to trust the Lord and say,
“The Lord is among us.
Disaster will not overtake us!”
John 1:14
1:14 Now the Word became flesh and took up residence among us. We saw his glory – the glory of the one and only, full of grace and truth, who came from the Father.
Acts 7:37-39
7:37 This is the Moses who said to the Israelites,
‘
God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’
7:38 This is the man who was in the congregation
in the wilderness
with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors,
and he
received living oracles
to give to you.
7:39 Our
ancestors
were unwilling to obey
him, but pushed him aside
and turned back to Egypt in their hearts,