I will set my tent among you, and my soul won’t abhor you.
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I will set my tent among you, and my soul won’t abhor you.
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And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.
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And I will set My tabernacle among you, and My soul shall not abhor you.
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Passages linked to Leviticus 26:11 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Exodus 25:8 Let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.
- Revelation 21:3 I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.
- Exodus 29:45 I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.
- Psalms 132:13-14 For Yahweh has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation. “This is my resting place forever. I will live here, for I have desired it.
- Ephesians 2:22 in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.
- Psalms 106:40 Therefore Yahweh burned with anger against his people. He abhorred his inheritance.
- Leviticus 20:23 You shall not walk in the customs of the nation which I am casting out before you; for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
- Psalms 76:2 His tabernacle is also in Salem; His dwelling place in Zion.
- Ezekiel 37:26-28 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them. It will be an everlasting covenant with them. I will place them, multiply them, and will set my sanctuary among them forever more. My tent also will be with them. I will be their God, and they will be my people. The nations will know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary is among them forever more.” ’ ”
- Joshua 22:19 However, if the land of your possession is unclean, then pass over to the land of the possession of Yahweh, in which Yahweh’s tabernacle dwells, and take possession among us; but don’t rebel against Yahweh, nor rebel against us, in building an altar other than Yahweh our God’s altar.
- 1 Kings 8:13 I have surely built you a house of habitation, a place for you to dwell in forever.”
- 1 Kings 8:27 But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house that I have built!
- Deuteronomy 32:19 Yahweh saw and abhorred, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.
- Jeremiah 14:21 Do not abhor us, for your name’s sake. Do not disgrace the throne of your glory. Remember, and don’t break your covenant with us.
- Lamentations 2:7 The Lord has cast off his altar. He has abhorred his sanctuary. He has given the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have made a noise in Yahweh’s house, as in the day of a solemn assembly.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain I will be daily present with you.
I will be daily present with you.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Lev 26:11 And I will set my tabernacle among…
Lev 26:11 And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.
Ver. 11. I will set my tabernacle.] The philosopher could comfort himself, that though he had little else to trust to, yet ενθα και οι Yεοι ιεσιν, Here are the gods with me, meaning his household gods. And he in Plutarch said of the Scythians, That though they had no music, nor vines amongst them, yet they had gods. How much more may the saints glory in God’s presence! Habent omnia qui habent habentem omnia. {a}
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{a} August.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain As I have placed it, so I will continue…
As I have placed it, so I will continue it among you, and not remove it from you, as once I did upon your miscarriage, Exo 33:7.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And I will walk among you,.... As they journeyed…
And I will walk among you,.... As they journeyed from place to place, he walked among them, in the tabernacle built for him, see Sa2 7:6; it may be expressive of the familiarity and communion which the Lord grants to his people, in and through Christ:
and will be your God; to provide for them, and supply them with all the blessings of his goodness, both in providence and grace; and to protect and defend them against all their enemies, temporal and spiritual:
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and ye shall be my people; appear to be a special and peculiar people of his, chosen, redeemed, and sanctified by him, and to whom he bore a special love, and took special care of; see Co2 6:16; the Targum of Jonathan of the whole is,"I will make the glory of my Shechinah dwell among you, and my Word shall be unto you for God the Redeemer, and ye shall be to my name for a people of Holy Ones.''
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain I will set - As I have placed it,…
I will set - As I have placed it, so I will continue it among you, and not remove it from you, as once I did upon your miscarriage, Exod. xxxiii, 7.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 11. I will set my tabernacle among you]…
Verse 11. I will set my tabernacle among you] This and the following verse contain the grand promise of the Gospel dispensation, viz. the presence, manifestation, and indwelling of God in human nature, and his constant in dwelling in the souls of his followers. So Joh 1:14 the WORD was made flesh, και εσκηνωσεν εν ἡμιν, and MADE HIS TABERNACLE among us. And to this promise of the law St. Paul evidently refers, 2Co 6:16-18 and 2Co 7:1
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Lev 26:11-13. I will set my tabernacle among you…
Lev 26:11-13. I will set my tabernacle among you — To crown all their blessings, God promises that his special presence, whereof the tabernacle was a symbol, should abide with them. I will walk among you — As I have hitherto done, both by my pillar of cloud and fire, and by my tabernacle, which have walked or gone along with you in all your journeys, and stayed among you in all your stations, to protect, conduct, instruct, and comfort you. And I will own you for that peculiar people which I have singled out of mankind, to bless you here, and to save you hereafter. Made you go upright — With heads lifted up, not pressed down with a yoke. It denotes their liberty, security, confidence, and glory.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 11. My tabernacle among you — The highest possible…
11. My tabernacle among you — The highest possible honour and the richest source of blessings are found in the manifested and abiding presence of the gracious Jehovah in the midst of Israel, guiding their journeyings, forgiving their sins, and shielding them from their enemies by his outflashing glory. Exo_14:24. But still greater blessings are here prefigured for the obedient in these latter days which have seen God tabernacling in the humanity of Jesus Christ, (Joh_1:14, note,) “in whom,” says Paul, “ye also are builded together for a habitation of God through the Spirit.” Eph_2:22. Christian privilege in this life culminates in the fulfilment of this wonderful promise of Christ, “we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.” Joh_14:23. Greater only in external manifestations of glory will be the bliss of the saints in the new Jerusalem, when a great voice from heaven will say, “Behold the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them.”
Rev_21:3.
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Abhor — Thrust you away.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (11) And I will set my tabernacle among you.—Better,…
(11) And I will set my tabernacle among you.—Better, And I will set my dwelling-place among you. (See Lev_15:31.) Not only will God bless them with these material blessings, but will permanently abide with them in the sanctuary erected in their midst.
My soul shall not abhor you.—That is, God has no aversion to them; does not regard it below His dignity to sojourn amongst them, and to show them His favour.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And I will set my tabernacle among you. This…
And I will set my tabernacle among you. This was fulfilled, spiritually, as shown to St. John in his vision of the new Jerusalem: "I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God". (Rev_21:3) And my soul shall not abhor you. The result of God"s abhorrence being his rejection of those whom he abhors. (see Lev_20:23)
God dwelling amongst men.
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All possible methods were employed to attach the Israelites to the Law. Solemnity of its promulgation, judgment executed on transgressors, enticing promises and terrifying threats. Chief among inducements to obedience was the promise of the text.
I SETTING UP A TABERNACLE IMPLIES.
1. Settled residences in the midst of the people. This was more than an occasional appearance on the mountain-top or in the wilderness. A tent is, at least for a season, a fixed abode. The Almighty would never be far distant from his lieges as he had seemed to be in preceding years.
2. Friendly, familiar intercourse with the people. He condescended to their manner of life, inhabiting a home as they did, passing as it were from one to the other. This is expressed in verse 12, "I will walk among you." Naught of pollution was suffered for the reason given in Deu_23:14, "The Lord thy God walketh in the midst of the comp." A special revelation of God is intimated, that he would be known, not as omnipresent in space, but as peculiarly present, interchanging visits with his people.
3. The assurance of Divine blessing. Guidance, assistance, forgiveness, all are herein included. God would be always near to be entreated. At the tabernacle sacrifices could be offered to purge away defilement. "The heathen shall know that I the Lord do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore", (Eze_37:28) God"s presence is superior to any of his works; if we have him, we have all good things guaranteed.
II THE PEOPLE OF GOD MAY WELL WONDER THAT HE SHOULD DELIGHT IN THEM AND NOT VIEW THEM WITH ABHORRENCE. To abide with man would be impossible if disgust were continually uppermost in the mind of God.
1. Consider man"s sinfulness. How repugnant to the pure and holy One of Israel is every thought of iniquity, much less its overt commission! How often must he be shocked at the sights and sounds that gratify sinful creatures? Peter, awakened to a sense of his unworthiness, cried out, "Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.
2. Consider man"s imperfections, his ignorance and frailty, his dullness of perception, his insensibility to refined and elevated tastes and emotions. If one nurtured in good society revolts at the idea of close communion with those inferior in the social scale, whoso manner of life and habits of thinking are so different, how great must be the disparity between heaven and earth! what a descent must God feel it to be to consort with creatures of such petty selfish alms and. uncultured ways! Only real pitying love, a desire to benefit and raise these miserable objects, a vision of what it was possible for them to become by such fellowship with the Most High, could have invested men with sufficient interest in the eyes of God to permit him to dwell amongst them. If the people strive to fulfill the behests of the Law, much of their degradation will vanish, and be succeeded by integrity and righteousness, which shall gradually beautify their character and customs. "My soul shall not abhor you," if you honour my precepts by strict fidelity.
III THE PROMISE VERIFIED.
1. In the local habitation of God at Shiloh and Jerusalem. There God placed his Name and exhibited his power and favour.
2. In his personal manifestation in Christ Jesus. "In him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily." "The Word... dwelt among us." Then was answered the question, "Will God in very deed dwell with man upon the earth?" Christ sojourned like ourselves in a house of clay, mingling with men and women in their daily tasks, sat at the same table with publicans and sinners.
3. In the presence of God spiritually in the heart of the individual believer, in the Church of Christ as a whole, making it the temple of God, and in the various assemblies, small or great, of the saints. "Where two or three are gathered together in my Name, there am I in the midst of them." The grandest fulfillment will be when the Lord God Almighty shall himself constitute the temple in which they shall offer their worship and service. "He that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among (spread his tabernacle over) them." No more hungering nor thirsting, no death, sorrow, nor crying, when God shall thus absolutely completely draw near to his people. S.R.A.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 I will place my tabernacle among you
I will place my tabernacle among you
"I will put my dwelling place among you"
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I will not detest you
"I will accept you"
I will walk among you
Walking among them represents living with them. AT: "I will live with you" (See: Metaphor)
I have broken the bars of your yoke
God speaks of their slavery as if they had to wear a yoke that animals wear in order to do hard work. Breaking the bars of the yoke represents setting them free. AT: "I have set you free from the hard labor they made you do" (See: Metaphor)
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