John 4:20

Conversation With A Samaritan Woman

¹⁹ The woman said to him, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. ²⁰ Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship." ²¹ Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father.

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Genesis 12:6-7

Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. The Canaanite was then in the land.

Deuteronomy 11:29

It shall happen, when Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land where you go to possess it, that you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim, and the curse on Mount Ebal.

Deuteronomy 27:12

"These shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people, when you have passed over the Jordan: Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin.

Genesis 33:18-20

Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan Aram; and encamped before the city.

Deuteronomy 12:5-11

But to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, even to his habitation you shall seek, and there you shall come;

Joshua 8:33-35

All Israel, and their elders and officers, and their judges, stood on this side of the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, who carried the ark of Yahweh's covenant, the foreigner as well as the native; half of them in front of Mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of Yahweh had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel.

Judges 9:6-7

All the men of Shechem assembled themselves together, and all the house of Millo, and went and made Abimelech king, by the oak of the pillar that was in Shechem.

1 Kings 9:3

Yahweh said to him, "I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.

2 Kings 17:26-33

Therefore they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, "The nations which you have carried away, and placed in the cities of Samaria, don't know the law of the god of the land. Therefore he has sent lions among them, and behold, they kill them, because they don't know the law of the god of the land."

1 Chronicles 21:26

David built an altar to Yahweh there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called on Yahweh; and he answered him from the sky by fire on the altar of burnt offering.

1 Chronicles 22:1

Then David said, "This is the house of Yahweh God, and this is the altar of burnt offering for Israel."

2 Chronicles 6:6

but I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.'

2 Chronicles 7:12

Yahweh appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, "I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for a house of sacrifice.

2 Chronicles 7:16

For now have I chosen and made this house holy, that my name may be there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.

Psalm 78:68

But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.

Psalm 87:1-2

His foundation is in the holy mountains.

Psalm 132:13

For Yahweh has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation.

Luke 9:53

They didn't receive him, because he was traveling with his face set towards Jerusalem.