Lexicon :: Strong's H4908 - miškān

“From the time I brought Israel out of Egypt until today I have not dwelt in a house; instead, I have moved from one tent site to another, and from one tabernacle location to another.[fn]

The tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering were at the high place in Gibeon,

“Also, the Levites no longer need to carry the tabernacle or any of the equipment for its service” ​— ​

but he put[fn] the bronze altar, which Bezalel son of Uri, son of Hur, had made, in front of the LORD’s tabernacle. Solomon and the assembly inquired of him[fn] there.

“For our ancestors were unfaithful and did what is evil in the sight of the LORD our God. They abandoned him, turned their faces away from the LORD’s dwelling place, and turned their backs on him.[fn]

Indeed, such is the dwelling of the unjust man,

and this is the place of the one who does not know God.

For you say, “Where now is the nobleman’s house? ”

and “Where are the tents the wicked lived in? ”

I made the desert its home,

and the salty wasteland its dwelling.

LORD, I love the house where you dwell,

the place where your glory resides.

Send your light and your truth; let them lead me.

Let them bring me to your holy mountain,

to your dwelling place.

There is a river —

its streams delight the city of God,

the holy dwelling place of the Most High.

Their graves are their permanent homes,[fn]

their dwellings from generation to generation,

though they have named estates after themselves.

They set your sanctuary on fire;

they utterly[fn] desecrated

the dwelling place of your name.

He made them fall in the camp,

all around the tents.

How lovely is your dwelling place,

LORD of Armies.

The LORD loves Zion’s city gates

more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

“until I find a place for the LORD,

a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob.”

If you do not know,

most beautiful of women,

follow[fn] the tracks of the flock,

and pasture your young goats

near the shepherds’ tents.

“What are you doing here? Who authorized you to carve out a tomb for yourself here, carving your tomb on the height and cutting a resting place for yourself out of rock?

Then my people will dwell in a peaceful place,

in safe and secure dwellings.

“Enlarge the site of your tent,

and let your tent curtains be stretched out;

do not hold back;

lengthen your ropes,

and drive your pegs deep.

For a sound of lamentation is heard from Zion:

How devastated we are.

We are greatly ashamed,

for we have abandoned the land;

our dwellings have been torn down.

This is what the LORD says:

I will certainly restore the fortunes[fn] of Jacob’s tents

and show compassion on his dwellings.

Every city will be rebuilt on its mound;

every citadel will stand on its proper site.

Babylon’s warriors have stopped fighting;

they sit in their strongholds.

Their might is exhausted;

they have become like women.

Babylon’s homes have been set ablaze,

her gate bars are shattered.

therefore I am about to give you to the people of the east as a possession. They will set up their encampments and pitch their tents among you. They will eat your fruit and drink your milk.

“My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be my people.

Look! I am raising up the Chaldeans,[fn]

that bitter, impetuous nation

that marches across the earth’s open spaces

to seize territories not its own.