Psalms 26:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

The habitation of thy house— This certainly means the tabernacle, wherein the ark of God was kept, and where he manifested his peculiar presence by a visible and glorious appearance. Dr. Hammond says, that the habitation of thy house may, by apposition, be, thy habitation-house; as we say in English a mansion-house, i.e. a place for daily habitation; such as the tabernacle was to God; he having promised to be continually present there. See Exodus 29:42; Exodus 29:45. We may render the verse, Lord, I have loved thy mansion-house, and the place of the tabernacle of thy glory.