16 Bible Verses about Sacred Places
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Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus,
They even built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
But you must seek only the place he chooses from all your tribes to establish his name as his place of residence, and you must go there.
God said, "Do not approach any closer! Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground."
The commander of the Lord's army answered Joshua, "Remove your sandals from your feet, because the place where you stand is holy." Joshua did so.
Then you must come to the place the Lord your God chooses for his name to reside, bringing everything I am commanding you -- your burnt offerings, sacrifices, tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, and all your choice votive offerings which you devote to him.
In the presence of the Lord your God you must eat from the tithe of your grain, your new wine, your olive oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks in the place he chooses to locate his name, so that you may learn to revere the Lord your God always.
You and your household must eat them annually before the Lord your God in the place he chooses.
You must sacrifice the Passover animal (from the flock or the herd) to the Lord your God in the place where he chooses to locate his name.
If a matter is too difficult for you to judge -- bloodshed, legal claim, or assault -- matters of controversy in your villages -- you must leave there and go up to the place the Lord your God chooses.
and that day made them woodcutters and water carriers for the community and for the altar of the Lord at the divinely chosen site. (They continue in that capacity to this very day.)
The entire Israelite community assembled at Shiloh and there they set up the tent of meeting. Though they had subdued the land,
David then said, "This is the place where the temple of the Lord God will be, along with the altar for burnt sacrifices for Israel."
Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you people say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem." Jesus said to her, "Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You people worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews.read more.
But a time is coming -- and now is here -- when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such people to be his worshipers. God is spirit, and the people who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."
Bible Theasaurus
- Places (701 instances)
- Sacred (213 instances)