1 Kings 8:13

8:13 O Lord, ¹  truly I have built a lofty temple for you, a place where you can live permanently.”

1 Kings 8:27

8:27 “God does not really live on the earth! ²  Look, if the sky and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this temple I have built!

Psalms 9:11

9:11 Sing praises to the Lord, who rules ³  in Zion!

Tell the nations what he has done! ⁴ 

Psalms 68:16

68:16 Why do you look with envy, ⁵  O mountains ⁶  with many peaks,

at the mountain where God has decided to live? ⁷ 

Indeed ⁸  the Lord will live there ⁹  permanently!

Psalms 68:18

68:18 You ascend on high, ¹⁰ 

you have taken many captives. ¹¹ 

You receive tribute ¹²  from ¹³  men,

including even sinful rebels.

Indeed the Lord God lives there! ¹⁴ 

Psalms 132:13-14

132:13 Certainly ¹⁵  the Lord has chosen Zion;

he decided to make it his home. ¹⁶ 

132:14 He said, ¹⁷  “This will be my resting place forever;

I will live here, for I have chosen it. ¹⁸ 

Psalms 135:21

135:21 The Lord deserves praise in Zion ¹⁹  –

he who dwells in Jerusalem. ²⁰ 

Praise the Lord!

Isaiah 8:18

8:18 Look, I and the sons whom the Lord has given me ²¹  are reminders and object lessons ²²  in Israel, sent from the Lord who commands armies, who lives on Mount Zion.

Joel 3:21

3:21 I will avenge ²³  their blood which I had not previously acquitted.

It is the Lord who dwells in Zion!

Zechariah 8:3

8:3 The Lord says, ‘I have returned to Zion and will live within Jerusalem. ²⁴  Now Jerusalem will be called “truthful city,” “mountain of the Lord who rules over all,” “holy mountain.”’

Zechariah 8:2

8:2 “The Lord who rules over all says, ‘I am very much concerned for Zion; indeed, I am so concerned for her that my rage will fall on those who hurt her.’

Colossians 1:16

1:16 for all things in heaven and on earth were created by him – all things, whether visible or invisible, whether thrones or dominions, ²⁵  whether principalities or powers – all things were created through him and for him.

Colossians 2:9

2:9 For in him all the fullness of deity lives ²⁶  in bodily form,

[8:13]  ¹ tn The words “O Lord” do not appear in the original text, but they are supplied for clarification; Solomon addresses the Lord in prayer at this point.

[8:27]  ² tn Heb “Indeed, can God really live on the earth?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course not,” the force of which the translation above seeks to reflect.

[9:11]  ³ tn Heb “sits” (i.e., enthroned, and therefore ruling – see v. 4). Another option is to translate as “lives” or “dwells.”

[9:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “declare among the nations his deeds.”

[68:16]  ⁵ tn The meaning of the Hebrew verb רָצַד (ratsad), translated here “look with envy,” is uncertain; it occurs only here in the OT. See BDB 952-53. A cognate verb occurs in later Aramaic with the meaning “to lie in wait; to watch” (Jastrow 1492 s.v. רְצַד).

[68:16]  ⁶ tn Perhaps the apparent plural form should be read as a singular with enclitic mem (ם; later misinterpreted as a plural ending). The preceding verse has the singular form.

[68:16]  ⁷ tn Heb “[at] the mountain God desires for his dwelling place.” The reference is to Mount Zion/Jerusalem.

[68:16]  ⁸ tn The Hebrew particle אַף (’af) has an emphasizing function here.

[68:16]  ⁹ tn The word “there” is supplied in the translation for clarification.

[68:18]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “to the elevated place”; or “on high.” This probably refers to the Lord’s throne on Mount Zion.

[68:18]  ¹¹ tn Heb “you have taken captives captive.”

[68:18]  ¹² tn Or “gifts.”

[68:18]  ¹³ tn Or “among.”

[68:18]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “so that the Lord God might live [there].” Many take the infinitive construct with -לְ (lamed) as indicating purpose here, but it is unclear how the offering of tribute enables the Lord to live in Zion. This may be an occurrence of the relatively rare emphatic lamed (see HALOT 510-11 s.v. II לְ, though this text is not listed as an example there). If so, the statement corresponds nicely to the final line of v. 16, which also affirms emphatically that the Lord lives in Zion.

[132:13]  ¹⁵ tn Or “for.”

[132:13]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “he desired it for his dwelling place.”

[132:14]  ¹⁷ tn The words “he said” are added in the translation to clarify that what follows are the Lord’s words.

[132:14]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “for I desired it.”

[135:21]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “praised be the Lord from Zion.”

[135:21]  ²⁰ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[8:18]  ²¹ sn This refers to Shear-jashub (7:3) and Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz (8:1, 3).

[8:18]  ²² tn Or “signs and portents” (NAB, NRSV). The names of all three individuals has symbolic value. Isaiah’s name (which meant “the Lord delivers”) was a reminder that the Lord was the nation’s only source of protection; Shear-jashub’s name was meant, at least originally, to encourage Ahaz (see the note at 7:3), and Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz’s name was a guarantee that God would defeat Israel and Syria (see the note at 8:4). The word מוֹפֶת (mofet, “portent”) can often refer to some miraculous event, but in 20:3 it is used, along with its synonym אוֹת (’ot, “sign”) of Isaiah’s walking around half-naked as an object lesson of what would soon happen to the Egyptians.

[3:21]  ²³ tc The present translation follows the reading וְנִקַּמְתִּי (vÿniqqamti, “I will avenge”) rather than וְנִקֵּתִי (vÿniqqeti, “I will acquit”) of the MT.

[8:3]  ²⁴ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[1:16]  ²⁵ tn BDAG 579 s.v. κυριότης 3 suggests “bearers of the ruling powers, dominions” here.

[2:9]  ²⁶ sn In him all the fullness of deity lives. The present tense in this verse (“lives”) is significant. Again, as was stated in the note on 1:19, this is not a temporary dwelling, but a permanent one. Paul’s point is polemical against the idea that the fullness of God dwells anywhere else, as the Gnostics believed, except in Christ alone. At the incarnation, the second person of the Trinity assumed humanity, and is forever the God-man.