1 Chronicles 22:1
Then David said, "Here shall be the house of the LORD God and here the altar of burnt offering for Israel."
2 Chronicles 3:1
Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to David his father, at the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
1 Chronicles 21:18-28
Now the angel of the LORD had commanded Gad to say to David that David should go up and raise an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
Genesis 28:17
And he was afraid and said, "How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven."
Deuteronomy 12:5-7
But you shall seek the place that the LORD your God will choose out of all your tribes to put his name and make his habitation there. There you shall go,
Deuteronomy 12:11
then to the place that the LORD your God will choose, to make his name dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution that you present, and all your finest vow offerings that you vow to the LORD.
2 Samuel 24:18
And Gad came that day to David and said to him, "Go up, raise an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite."
2 Kings 18:22
But if you say to me, "We trust in the LORD our God," is it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and to Jerusalem, "You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem"?
2 Chronicles 6:5-6
'Since the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house, that my name might be there, and I chose no man as prince over my people Israel;
2 Chronicles 32:12
Has not this same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, "Before one altar you shall worship, and on it you shall burn your sacrifices"?
Psalm 78:60
He forsook his dwelling at Shiloh, the tent where he dwelt among mankind,
Psalm 78:67-69
He rejected the tent of Joseph; he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,
Psalm 132:13-14
For the LORD has chosen Zion; he has desired it for his dwelling place:
John 4:20-22
Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship."