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Hesekiel 8:12

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12 Niin hän sanoi minulle: "Näetkö, ihmislapsi, mitä Israelin heimon vanhimmat tekevät pimeässä, itsekukin kuvakammiossansa? Sillä he sanovat:

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332 - Nowhere to Lay His Head

By Jonathan S. Rose

Title: Nowhere to Lay His Head

Topic: The Word

Summary: How can we provide the Lord a place to lay his head?

References:
Judges 15:3-5
Nehemiah 4:1-3
Lamentations 5:15-18
Ezekiel 13:3-5
Luke 13:31-33
Isaiah 2:19; 42:21-22
Jeremiah 16:16-17
Ezekiel 8:6-10
Micah 7:16-17
2 Samuel 21:9-10
1 Kings 14:11
Job 12:7-8
Hosea 7:11-12
Luke 8:5
Acts 10:9-14
Proverbs 27:8
Isaiah 34:8-11, 13-16
Jeremiah 49:15-16
Mark 10:33-34
Matthew 25:31-33
Luke 19:9-10
Isaiah 35:10
Ezekiel 9:10; 16:43
Job 16:15-16
Matthew 8:18-20

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Arcana Coelestia #9524

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9524. 'Which are over the ark of the Testimony' means with the Lord in heaven. This is clear from the representation of 'the ark' as heaven, and from the meaning of 'the Testimony' as Divine Truth, thus the Lord in heaven, both dealt with in 9503.

  
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