Deuteronomy 12:11

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD:

A place

General references

Deuteronomy 12:14

Deuteronomy 28:47

Bible References

A place

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.

You shall eat in the presence of Jehovah your God, at the place where He chooses to establish his name, the tithe of your grain, your new wine, your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and your flock, so that you may learn to respect Jehovah your God always.

You and your household shall eat it every year before Jehovah your God in the place Jehovah chooses.

Sacrifice the Passover to Jehovah your God from the flock and the herd, in the place where Jehovah chooses to establish his name.

If any case is too difficult for you to decide, between one kind of homicide or another, between one kind of lawsuit or another, and between one kind of assault or another, being cases of dispute in your courts, then you should go to the place Jehovah your God chooses.

Any Levite who wants to may come from any town in Israel to the one place of worship.

Let him live with you in your midst. Let him choose a place in one of your towns where it pleases him. Do not mistreat him.

Take some of the first of all the produce of the ground that you bring in from your land that Jehovah your God gives you, and put it in a basket and go to the place where Jehovah your God chooses to establish His name.

when all Israel comes to appear before Jehovah your God at the place he will choose, you shall read this Law in front of all Israel in their hearing.

The whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh. They set up the tabernacle of the congregation there. The land was subdued before them.

Now I have built a majestic temple for you, a place for you to live in for a very long time.

but he chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion he loved.

But go to my place in Shiloh, where I made my name dwell from the beginning, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of my people Israel.

Our fathers worshipped in this mountain. But you say Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.

General references

but in the place Jehovah chooses in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.

You did not serve Jehovah your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things.