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The Definition of the word Dwell

Dwell

Tents were in primitive times the common dwellings of men. "Houses were afterwards built, the walls of which were frequently" "of mud (Job 24:16; Matt. 6:19, 20) or of sun-dried bricks." "God "dwells in light" (1 Tim. 6:16; 1 John 1:7), in heaven (Ps. "123:1), in his church (Ps. 9:11; 1 John 4:12). Christ dwelt on" earth in the days of his humiliation (John 1:14). He now dwells in the hearts of his people (Eph. 3:17-19). The Holy Spirit dwells in believers (1 Cor. 3:16; 2 Tim. 1:14). We are exhorted "to "let the word of God dwell in us richly" (Col. 3:16; Ps." 119:11). "Dwell deep occurs only in Jer. 49:8, and refers to the custom of "seeking refuge from impending danger, in retiring to the" "recesses of rocks and caverns, or to remote places in the" desert.


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