1 Chronicles 22:1

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Summary

1 Chronicles 22:1

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

This is the house

And this is the altar

2 Kings 18:22

2 Chronicles 32:12

Bible References

This is the house

Now the angel of Yahweh had spoken to Gad to say to David that David should go up [and] erect an altar for Yahweh.

Then he was afraid and said, "How awesome [is] this place! {This is nothing else than the house of God}, and this is the gate of heaven!"

{But only} to the place that Yahweh your God will choose from all [of] your tribes to place his name there as his dwelling shall you seek, and there you shall go.

Then Gad came to David on that same day and said to him, "Go up and erect an altar to Yahweh at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite."

Then Solomon began to build the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem, on Mount Moriah, where Yahweh had appeared to David his father, at the place that David had established, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

'From the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt I did not choose a city among all the tribes of Israel to build a house in order for my name [to be] there. Nor did I choose a man to be leader over my people Israel.

So he abandoned the dwelling place at Shiloh, [the] tent he had placed among humankind.

For Yahweh has chosen Zion; he has desired it for his habitation.

Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you [people] say that in Jerusalem is the place where it is necessary to worship."

And this is the altar

But if you say to me, 'On Yahweh our God we trust,' [is] it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, and he had said to Judah and to Jerusalem, 'In the presence of this altar you shall bow down [only] in Jerusalem?'

Has not Hezekiah himself removed his high places and his altars and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, saying, "You must bow down before one altar and upon it you must make offerings"?