One thing have I asked of the Lord, this will I earnestly seek; that I should dwell in the house of the Lord, all the days of my life, that I should behold the fair beauty of the Lord, and survey His temple.

And now, behold, He has lifted up my head over my enemies; I went round and offered in His tabernacle the sacrifice of joy; I will sing, [I will] sing psalms unto the Lord.

I remembered these things, and poured out my soul in me, for I will go to the place of Your wondrous tabernacle, [even] to the house of God, with a voice of exaltation and thanksgiving and of the sound of those who keep festival.

For the end, A Psalm for the sons of Korah, concerning the winepresses. How lovely is Your tabernacle, O Lord of hosts!

My soul longs and faints for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh have exalted in the living God.

For one day in Your courts is better than thousands. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of God, than dwell in the tents of sinners.

A Song of Degrees. I was glad when they said to me, Let us go into the house of the Lord.

Jerusalem is built as a city whose fellowship is complete.

And the king said to Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city: if I should find favor in the eyes of the Lord, then will He bring me back, and He will show me [both] it and its beauty.

Moreover, because I took pleasure in the house of my God, I have gold and silver which I have procured for myself, and behold, I have given them to the house of my God over and above, beyond what I have prepared for the holy house.

O God of my salvation; and I will not cease [from] blessing You with the psaltery all the days of my life before the house of God.

And Hezekiah said, This is a sign to Hezekiah, that I shall go up to the house of God.

Now it came to pass that after three days they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both hearing them and questioning them.

And He said to them, "Why [is it] that you were seeking Me? Did you not know that I must be about My Father's business?"

And when He entered into the temple, He began to drive out those buying and selling in it,

And He was teaching daily in the temple. But the chief priests, the scribes, and the leaders of the people were seeking to destroy Him,

And He found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the moneychangers sitting there.

And He said to those selling the doves, "Take these things [away] from here! Do not make My Father's house a house of merchandise!"

Thus have I appeared before You in the sanctuary, that I might see Your power and Your glory.

For Your mercy is better than life: my lips shall praise You.

And you shall set the mercy seat on the ark above, and you shall put into the ark the testimonies which I shall give you.

And I will make Myself known to you from there, and I will speak to you from above the mercy seat between the two cherubim, which are upon the Ark of Testimony, even in all things which I shall charge you concerning the children of Israel.

And the cloud covered the tabernacle of witness, and the tabernacle was filled with the glory of the Lord.

And Moses was not able to enter into the tabernacle of testimony, because the cloud overshadowed it, and the tabernacle was filled with the glory of the Lord.

And the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud; for the glory of the Lord filled the house of God.

Then Solomon said, The Lord said that He would dwell in thick darkness.

But I have built a house to Your name, holy to You, and prepared [for You] to dwell in forever.