Psalms 132:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵Until I find out a place for the LORD, an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob.

Psalms 132:5 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ephesians 2:22
In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
2 Chronicles 2:6
But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who am I then, that I should build him an house, save only to burn sacrifice before him?
1 Chronicles 22:7
And David said to Solomon, My son, as for me, it was in my mind to build an house unto the name of the LORD my God:
Acts 7:46-49
Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob. …
1 Kings 8:27
But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-10)

In these verses we have Solomon’s address to God for his favour to him and to his government, and his acceptance of his building a house to God’s name. Observe, I. What he pleads—two things:— 1. That what he had done was in pursuance of the pious vow which his father David had made to build a house for God. Solomon was a wise man, yet pleads not any merit of his own: “I am not worthy, for whom tho…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

Psa 132:1-18. The writer, perhaps Solomon (compare Psa 132:8, 9), after relating David’s pious zeal for God’s service, pleads for the fulfilment of the promise (2Sa 7:16), which, providing for a perpetuation of David’s kingdom, involved that of God’s right worship and the establishment of the greater and spiritual kingdom of David’s greater Son. Of Him and His kingdom both the temple and its worsh…