Luke 2:37 - The Scriptures 1998

³⁷ and she was a widow of about eighty-four years, who did not leave the Set-apart Place, but served Elohim with fastings and prayers night and day.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁷ and she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁷ And as a widow even for eighty-four years. She did not go out from the temple enclosure, but was worshiping night and day with fasting and prayer.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁷ and she had been a widow even unto fourscore and four years), who departed not from the temple, worshipping with fastings and supplications night and day.

Common English Bible

³⁷ She was now an 84-year-old widow. She never left the temple area but worshipped God with fasting and prayer night and day.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁷ And then she was a widow, even to her eighty-fourth year. And without departing from the temple, she was a servant to fasting and prayer, night and day.

Luke 2:37 Cross References

Psalm 22:2

O My Elohim, I call by day, but You do not answer; And by night, but I find no rest.

Psalm 23:6

Only goodness and kindness follow me All the days of my life; And I shall dwell in the House of יהוה, To the length of days!

Psalm 27:4

One matter I asked of יהוה  – this I seek: To dwell in the House of יהוה  All the days of my life, To see the pleasantness of יהוה, And to inquire in His Hĕ

Psalm 84:10

For a day in Your courts Is better than a thousand days. I have chosen rather to be a doorkeeper In the House of my Elohim, Than to dwell in the tents of the wrong.

Psalm 84:4

Blessed are those who dwell in Your house, They are ever praising You. Selah.

Psalm 92:13

Those who are planted in the House of יהוה  Flourish in the courts of our Elohim.

Exodus 38:8

And he made the basin of bronze and its stand of bronze, from the bronze mirrors of the serving women who did service at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

Luke 5:33

And they said to Him, “Why do the taught ones of Yoḥ

Acts 13:3

Then having fasted and prayed, and having laid hands on them, they sent them away.

Acts 14:23

And having appointed elders in every assembly, having prayed with fasting, they committed them to the Master in whom they had believed.

Acts 26:7

to which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving Elohim night and day, expect to attain. Concerning this expectation, O Sovereign Agrippa, I am accused by the Yehuḏ

1 Timothy 5:5

And she who is truly a widow, and left alone, trusts in Elohim and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.

Revelation 3:12

“He who overcomes, I shall make him a supporting post in the Dwelling Place of My Elohim, and he shall by no means go out. And I shall write on him the Name of My Elohim and the name of the city of My Elohim, the renewed Yerushalayim, which comes down out of the heaven from My Elohim, and My renewed Name.

Revelation 7:15

“Because of this they are before the throne of Elohim, and serve Him day and night in His Dwelling Place. And He who sits on the throne shall spread His Tent over them.

1 Samuel 2:2

“There is no one set-apart like יהוה, for there is no one besides You, and there is no rock like our Elohim.