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 ; Matthew 6:19,20 ) or of sun-dried bricks. God "dwells in light" ( 1 Timothy 6:16 ; 1 John 1:7 ), in heaven ( Psalm 123:1 ), in his church ( Psalm 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 ( Ephesians 3:17-19 ). The Holy Spirit dwells in believers ( 1 Corinthians 3:16 ; 2 Timothy 1:14 ). We are exhorted to "let the word of God dwell in us richly" ( Colossians 3:16 ; Psalm 119:11 ). Dwell deep occurs only in Jeremiah 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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