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.