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Psalms 42:4
I remember this as I pour out my heart: how I walked with many, leading the festive procession to the house of God, with joyful and thankful shouts.
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1 Chronicles 29 22
They ate and drank with great joy in the LORD’s presence that day. Then, for a second time, they made David’s son Solomon king; they anointed him as the LORD’s ruler, and Zadok as the priest.
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1 Chronicles 29 20
Then David said to the whole assembly,“ Blessed be the LORD your God.” So the whole assembly praised the LORD God of their ancestors. They knelt low and paid homage to the LORD and the king.
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2 Chronicles 7 4-2 Chronicles 7 5
The king and all the people were offering sacrifices in the LORD’s presence.King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand cattle and one hundred twenty thousand sheep and goats. In this manner the king and all the people dedicated God’s temple.
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Matthew 28:20
teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
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Revelation 2:1
“ Write to the angel of the church in Ephesus: Thus says the one who holds the seven stars in his right hand and who walks among the seven golden lampstands:
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2 Chronicles 34 30-2 Chronicles 34 31
The king went up to the LORD’s temple with all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, as well as the priests and the Levites— all the people from the oldest to the youngest. He read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant that had been found in the LORD’s temple.Then the king stood at his post and made a covenant in the LORD’s presence to follow the LORD and to keep his commands, his decrees, and his statutes with all his heart and with all his soul in order to carry out the words of the covenant written in this book.
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Psalms 122:1-4
I rejoiced with those who said to me,“ Let’s go to the house of the LORD.”Our feet were standing within your gates, Jerusalem—Jerusalem, built as a city should be, solidly united,where the tribes, the LORD’s tribes, go up to give thanks to the name of the LORD.( This is an ordinance for Israel.)
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2 Samuel 6 14-2 Samuel 6 19
David was dancing with all his might before the LORD wearing a linen ephod.He and the whole house of Israel were bringing up the ark of the LORD with shouts and the sound of the ram’s horn.As the ark of the LORD was entering the city of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, and she despised him in her heart.They brought the ark of the LORD and set it in its place inside the tent David had pitched for it. Then David offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings in the LORD’s presence.When David had finished offering the burnt offering and the fellowship offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD of Armies.Then he distributed a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake to each one in the entire Israelite community, both men and women. Then all the people went home.
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2 Chronicles 20 27-2 Chronicles 20 28
Then all the men of Judah and Jerusalem turned back with Jehoshaphat their leader, returning joyfully to Jerusalem, for the LORD enabled them to rejoice over their enemies.So they came into Jerusalem to the LORD’s temple with harps, lyres, and trumpets.
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Hebrews 3:6
But Christ was faithful as a Son over his household. And we are that household if we hold on to our confidence and the hope in which we boast.
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Hebrews 4:14-16
Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens— Jesus the Son of God— let us hold fast to our confession.For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in every way as we are, yet without sin.Therefore, let us approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in time of need.
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Matthew 18:20
For where two or three are gathered together in my name, I am there among them.”
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2 Chronicles 6 2-2 Chronicles 6 4
but I have built an exalted temple for you, a place for your dwelling forever.Then the king turned and blessed the entire congregation of Israel while they were standing.He said: Blessed be the LORD God of Israel! He spoke directly to my father David, and he has fulfilled the promise by his power. He said,
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Nehemiah 8:8-9
They read out of the book of the law of God, translating and giving the meaning so that the people could understand what was read.Nehemiah the governor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who were instructing the people said to all of them,“ This day is holy to the LORD your God. Do not mourn or weep.” For all the people were weeping as they heard the words of the law.
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2 Chronicles 29 28-2 Chronicles 29 29
The whole assembly was worshiping, singing the song, and blowing the trumpets— all this continued until the burnt offering was completed.When the burnt offerings were completed, the king and all those present with him bowed down and worshiped.
