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House of the Lord


House of the Lord

Psalm 23:6

Excerpt


The house of the Lord is most probably a reference to the Temple. The meaning of the psalmist’s declaration is that he wants to worship Yahweh in the Temple all his life or, in an extended sense, always to experience Yahweh’s presence and power with him. Dahood, however, takes the house of the Lord to be Yahweh’s heavenly abode, in which the psalmist wants to live forever. The expression the house of the Lord may be the local designation of a church building. If that is the case, it will be better to speak of the Temple in Jerusalem.


Bratcher, Robert G., and William David Reyburn. A Translator’s Handbook on the Book of Psalms. New York: United Bible Societies, 1991. Print. UBS Handbook Series.
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