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

Then the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to tell David that David should go up, and raise an altar to the LORD in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

He was afraid, and said, "How dreadful is this place. This is none other than God's house, and this is the gate of heaven."

But to the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, even to his habitation you shall seek, and there you shall come;

Gad came that day to David, and said to him, "Go up, build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite."

Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where [the LORD] appeared to David his father, at the place that David had designated, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

'Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house in, that my name might be there; nor did I choose any man to be a leader over my people Israel:

So that he forsook the tent of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;

For the LORD has chosen Zion; he has desired it for his dwelling.

Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship."

And this is the altar

But if you tell me, 'We trust in the LORD our God;' isn't that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, 'You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?'

Hasn't the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, 'You shall worship before one altar, and on it you shall burn incense?'