Meaning
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" (1Tim 6:16; 1John 1:7), in heaven (Ps 123:1), in his church (Ps 9:11; 1John 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 (1Cor 3:16; 2Tim 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 See king refuge from impending danger, in retiring to the recesses of rocks and caverns, or to remote places in the desert.
