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Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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• Isaiah 56:7 OT

  I will bring these to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house will be called a house of prayer for all peoples.”

• 2 Chronicles 7:14 OT

  if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

• 2 Chronicles 7:16 OT

  For now I have chosen and made this house holy, that my name may be there forever; and my eyes and my heart will be there perpetually.

• Exodus 20:24 OT

  You shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you.

• Matthew 18:20 NT

  For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the middle of them.”

• Matthew 12:9 NT

  He departed from there, and went into their synagogue.

• Luke 4:16 NT

  He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read.

• Matthew 18:19 NT

  Again, assuredly I tell you, that if two of you will agree on earth concerning anything that they will ask, it will be done for them by my Father who is in heaven.

• Luke 11:2 NT

  He said to them, “When you pray, say, ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come. May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.

• 1 Corinthians 14:14-16 NT

  For if I pray in another language, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful. What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also. I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the…

• Psalms 42:4 OT

  These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.

• Psalms 122:1 OT

  I was glad when they said to me, “Let’s go to Yahweh’s house!”

• Hebrews 10:25 NT

  not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

• Psalms 95:6 OT

  Oh come, let’s worship and bow down. Let’s kneel before Yahweh, our Maker,

• Zechariah 8:21 OT

  and the inhabitants of one shall go to another, saying, ‘Let’s go speedily to entreat the favor of Yahweh, and to seek Yahweh of Armies. I will go also.’

• Joshua 7:6-9 OT

  Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before Yahweh’s ark until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads. Joshua said, “Alas, Lord Yahweh, why have you brought this people over the…

• 1 Chronicles 29:10-19 OT

  Therefore David blessed Yahweh before all the assembly; and David said, “You are blessed, Yahweh, the God of Israel our father, forever and ever. Yours, Yahweh, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty! For all…

• 2 Chronicles 6:1-42 OT

  Then Solomon said, “Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness. But I have built you a house and home, a place for you to dwell in forever.” The king turned his face, and blessed all the assembly of Israel: and all the…

• 2 Chronicles 20:5-13 OT

  Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in Yahweh’s house, before the new court; and he said, “Yahweh, the God of our fathers, aren’t you God in heaven? Aren’t you ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? Power and…

• Nehemiah 9:1-38 OT

  Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, with sackcloth, and dirt on them. The offspring of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the…

• Luke 1:10 NT

  The whole multitude of the people were praying outside at the hour of incense.

• Acts 2:46 NT

  Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart,

• Acts 4:24 NT

  When they heard it, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, “O Lord, you are God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;

• Acts 12:5 NT

  Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.