1 Chronicles 22:1
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."
2 Chronicles 3:1
Solomon began building the Lord's temple in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David prepared at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
1 Chronicles 21:18-28
So the Lord's messenger told Gad to instruct David to go up and build an altar for the Lord on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
Genesis 28:17
He was afraid and said, "What an awesome place this is! This is nothing else than the house of God! This is the gate of heaven!"
Deuteronomy 12:5-7
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.
Deuteronomy 12:11
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.
2 Samuel 24:18
So Gad went to David that day and told him, "Go up and build an altar for the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite."
2 Kings 18:22
Perhaps you will tell me, 'We are trusting in the Lord our God.' But Hezekiah is the one who eliminated his high places and altars and then told the people of Judah and Jerusalem, 'You must worship at this altar in Jerusalem.'
2 Chronicles 6:5-6
He told David, 'Since the day I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from all the tribes of Israel to build a temple in which to live. Nor did I choose a man as leader of my people Israel.
2 Chronicles 32:12
Hezekiah is the one who eliminated the Lord's high places and altars and then told Judah and Jerusalem, "At one altar you must worship and offer sacrifices."
Psalm 78:60
He abandoned the sanctuary at Shiloh, the tent where he lived among men.
Psalm 78:67-69
He rejected the tent of Joseph; he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim.
Psalm 132:13-14
Certainly the Lord has chosen Zion; he decided to make it his home.
John 4:20-22
Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you people say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem."