Verse 8

Go up into the mountains, bring down timber, and build the house, so that I may be pleased with it and be glorified, says the LORD.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 132:13-14 : 13 For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His dwelling place: 14 'This is My resting place forever; here I will dwell, for I have desired it.'
  • Hag 2:7 : 7 I will shake all the nations, and the treasures of all the nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory, says the LORD of Hosts.
  • Hag 2:9 : 9 The glory of this latter house will be greater than that of the former, says the LORD of Hosts. And in this place I will give peace—this is the declaration of the LORD of Hosts.
  • Zech 11:1-2 : 1 Open your gates, O Lebanon, so that fire may consume your cedars. 2 Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen, because the majestic trees are destroyed! Wail, oaks of Bashan, for the dense forest has come down!
  • Matt 3:8-9 : 8 Produce fruit in keeping with repentance. 9 And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones.
  • John 13:31-32 : 31 When Judas had left, Jesus said, 'Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in Him.' 32 If God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him in Himself, and will glorify Him at once.
  • Isa 60:7 : 7 All the flocks of Kedar will be gathered to you; the rams of Nebaioth will serve you; they will go up with acceptance on my altar, and I will glorify the house of my splendor.
  • Isa 60:13 : 13 The glory of Lebanon will come to you—cypress, pine, and box tree together—to beautify the place of my sanctuary, and I will glorify the place of my feet.
  • Isa 66:11 : 11 For you will nurse and be satisfied from her comforting breasts; you will drink deeply and delight in her overflowing glory.
  • Jonah 3:1-2 : 1 Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time, saying, 2 “Get up, go to the great city of Nineveh, and proclaim the message that I tell you.”
  • Hag 1:2-4 : 2 This is what the LORD of Hosts says: These people say, 'The time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the LORD.' 3 Then the word of the LORD came through the prophet Haggai, saying: 4 Is this a time for you to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?
  • Exod 29:43 : 43 There I will meet with the Israelites, and the place will be consecrated by My glory.
  • 1 Kgs 9:3 : 3 The LORD said to him, 'I have heard your prayer and your plea that you made before Me. I have consecrated this temple you have built by putting My name there forever, and My eyes and My heart will always be there.'
  • 2 Chr 2:8-9 : 8 Provide a large amount of timber for me, because the house I am building will be great and extraordinary. 9 I will give your servants, the woodcutters who cut the timber, twenty thousand cors of crushed wheat, twenty thousand cors of barley, twenty thousand gallons of wine, and twenty thousand gallons of oil. 10 Hiram, king of Tyre, replied in writing and sent it to Solomon: "Because of the LORD's love for His people, He has made you their king."
  • 2 Chr 7:16 : 16 I have chosen and consecrated this house so that My name may be there forever. My eyes and My heart will always be there.
  • Ezra 3:7 : 7 They gave money to the stonecutters and carpenters, and food, drink, and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre, so they would bring cedar wood by sea from Lebanon to Joppa, according to the permission granted by Cyrus king of Persia.
  • Ezra 6:4 : 4 It will have three layers of large stone and one layer of new timber. The cost will be paid from the royal treasury.
  • Ps 87:2-3 : 2 The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. 3 Glorious things are spoken of you, city of God. Selah.