1 Chronicles 22:1
David said: The house of Jehovah God is to be here, and also the altar of burnt offering for Israel.
2 Chronicles 3:1
Solomon began to build Jehovah's Temple in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah. That is where Jehovah appeared to his father David. David had prepared the site on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
1 Chronicles 21:18-28
Jehovah's angel told Gad to command David to go and build an altar to Jehovah at Araunah's threshing place.
Genesis 28:17
He was filled with reverence. He said: This is an awesome place! Certainly, this is the house of God and the gateway to the heavens!
Deuteronomy 12:5-7
You should seek Jehovah at the place Jehovah your God chooses out of all your tribes. This is where he will dwell and establish his name. This is where you should go.
Deuteronomy 12:11
It will happen in the place Jehovah choose for his name to dwell, there you shall bring all that I command you. Bring your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution of your hand, and all your choice vowed offerings that you will vow to Jehovah.
2 Samuel 24:18
Gad came to David and said: Go, set up an altar for Jehovah at Araunah the Jebusite's threshing floor.
2 Kings 18:22
If you say to me: We trust in Jehovah our God, is he not the one whose high places and altars have been taken away by Hezekiah. For he told Judah and Jerusalem that worship may only be given before this altar in Jerusalem?
2 Chronicles 6:5-6
Since I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I did not choose any city from the tribes of Israel as a place to build a Temple for my name. And I did not choose any man to be prince over my people Israel.
2 Chronicles 32:12
Did Hezekiah not tear down all except one of Jehovah's altars and places of worship? And did he not tell you people of Jerusalem and Judah to worship at that one place?
Psalm 78:60
He abandoned his dwelling place in Shiloh, the tent where he had lived among humans.
Psalm 78:67-69
He rejected the tent of Joseph. He did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,
Psalm 132:13-14
Jehovah has chosen Zion. He wants it for his home.
John 4:20-22
Our fathers worshipped in this mountain. But you say Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.