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Psalm 84:1
For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. How lovely are your dwellings, LORD of Armies!
1For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. How lovely are your dwellings, LORD of Armies!
2My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of the LORD. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
3Yes, the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young, near your altars, LORD of Armies, my King, and my God.
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The word “lovely” joins delight in God’s dwellings with awe before YHWH of Armies, whose might does not make his home less desirable.
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Psalm 27:4One thing I have asked of the LORD, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in the LORD’s house all the days of my life, to see the LORD’s beauty, and to …Both psalms express delight in God’s dwelling, with Psalm 27 joining the desire to remain there to seeing the LORD’s beauty.
Psalm 43:3Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, to your tents.God’s dwelling is treasured in both texts: Psalm 84 praises its loveliness, and Psalm 43 asks to be led to his tents.
Psalm 46:1For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.Both psalms bear the name of the sons of Korah; one praises God’s dwellings, while the other names God as refuge.
Psalm 36:8They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.Both texts describe God’s dwelling with delight, speaking of its loveliness in Psalm 84 and its abundance and pleasures in Psalm 36.
Revelation 21:22–23I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.Both concern God and a dwelling for worship; Revelation identifies the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb themselves as the temple.
Nehemiah 9:6You are the LORD, even you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their army, the earth and all things that are on it, the seas and all …The title LORD of Armies connects with Nehemiah’s account of God creating heaven’s army and receiving its worship.
Revelation 21:2–3I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.Both describe a place associated with God in terms of beauty: lovely dwellings and a city adorned like a bride.
Hebrews 9:23–24It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better …The connection is indirect: Psalm 84 praises God’s dwellings, while Hebrews speaks of heavenly things and their copies.
Isaiah 6:2–3Above him stood the seraphim. Each one had six wings. With two he covered his face. With two he covered his feet. With two he flew.The connection is limited: the psalm addresses the LORD of Armies, while Isaiah describes the seraphim standing above him.
Ezekiel 24:21‘Speak to the house of Israel, “The Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your …Both describe God’s sanctuary as an object of desire, though Ezekiel announces its profaning and the deaths of sons and daughters.
Numbers 16:32The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up with their households, all of Korah’s men, and all their goods.Korah’s name links the psalm’s singers with Numbers’ account of judgment, where the earth swallows Korah’s men and their households.
1 Chronicles 6:37the son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah,Korah is named in both texts, in the psalm’s heading about its singers and in the family line recorded in Chronicles.
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YHWH of Armies receives this song of delight. Awe before his greatness has room for affection: the singer loves the place where God dwells.
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