Psalms 132:14
he said, “This is the city where I will live forever [DOU]; this is the place where I wanted to stay.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.
In Context
13Yahweh has chosen Jerusalem; he has wanted to make that city his home;
Cross References
1 Kings 8:13I have built for you a magnificent temple, a place for you to live in forever.”
1 Kings 9:3Yahweh said to him, “I heard what you prayed and what you pleaded for me to do. I have set apart/dedicated this temple which your workers have built to be the place where people will worship me forever. I will always watch over it and protect it.
Psalms 68:16But the people who live near that mountain should not [RHQ] envy those who live near Zion, the mountain on which God chose to live! Yahweh will live there forever!
Psalms 76:2His home is in Jerusalem; he lives on Zion Hill.
Psalms 132:8Yahweh, come to the place where you live eternally, to the place where your sacred chest is, to that place that shows that you are very powerful.
Isaiah 8:18I and the children that Yahweh has given to me are like signs to warn the people of Israel; we are warnings from the Commander of the armies of angels the one who lives in his temple on Zion Hill in Jerusalem.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 132:12-18
God's Choice of Zion; God's Promises to Zion. 11 The Lord hath sworn in truth unto David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne. 12 If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon thy throne for evermore. 13 For the Lord hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation. 14 This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it. 15 I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her… Read the whole commentary →