Deuteronomy 12:5
Instead, you must seek to enter only the place that the LORD your God will choose among your tribes. There he will establish his name and live.
2 Chronicles 7:12
Later, the LORD appeared to Solomon during the night and told him:
Deuteronomy 12:11
then bring to the place that the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling place where he will establish his name everything that I'm commanding you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, your hand-carried gifts, and all your best offerings in fulfillment of promises that you pledged to the LORD.
Deuteronomy 16:2
Then sacrifice sheep and cattle for the Passover to the LORD your God at the place where the LORD your God will choose to establish his name.
Deuteronomy 26:2
Gather all the first produce of the ground that you harvest from your land that the LORD your God is about to give you, place it in a basket, and bring it to the place where the LORD your God will choose to establish his name.
Joshua 18:1
After this, the entire assembly of the Israelis gathered together at Shiloh and set up the Tent of Meeting there, where the land lay conquered before them.
1 Kings 8:29
Let your eyes always look toward this Temple night and day, toward the location where you have said "My name will reside there.' Listen to the prayer that your servant prays in this direction.
Psalm 78:68
But he chose the tribe of Judah, the mountain of Zion, which he loves.
Exodus 15:2
The LORD is my strength and song, and he has become my salvation. This is my God and I'll praise him, the God of my father and I'll exalt him.
Exodus 25:22
I'll meet with you there, and I'll tell you all my commandments for the Israelis from above the Mercy Seat, from between the two cherubim that are on the Ark of the Testimony."
Numbers 7:89
When Moses entered the Tent of Meeting to speak with the L ORD, he heard a voice speaking to him above the Mercy Seat over the Ark of the Testimony. He spoke to him from between the two cherubim.
Deuteronomy 12:13
Be careful not to offer burnt offerings at any location you happen to see
Joshua 9:27
However, on that very day Joshua made them become wood cutters and water carriers for the congregation and for the LORD's altar in the place that he should choose, and this tradition continues to this day.
1 Kings 8:16
"From the day I brought out my people Israel from Egypt I never chose a city from all the tribes of Israel to build a temple where my name might reside. I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.'
1 Kings 8:20
"The LORD has brought to fulfillment what he promised, and now here I stand, having succeeded my father David to sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised. I have built the Temple for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
1 Kings 8:27
and yet, will God truly reside on earth? Look! Neither the sky nor the highest heaven can contain you! How much less this Temple that I have built!
1 Kings 14:21
Meanwhile, Solomon's son Rehoboam reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was 41 years old when he became king, and he reigned for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city where the Lord had chosen from all the tribes of Israel to place his Name. His mother was an Ammonite named Naamah.
Psalm 87:2-3
The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than the dwellings of Jacob.
Psalm 132:13-14
For the LORD has chosen Zion, desiring it as his dwelling place.
Isaiah 66:1-2
This is what the LORD says: "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Where is the house that you would build for me, and where will my resting place be?
John 4:20-22
Our ancestors worshipped on this mountain. But you Jews say that the place where people should worship is in Jerusalem."
Acts 7:48-50
However, the Most High does not live in buildings made by human hands. As the prophet says,
Ephesians 2:20-22
having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, the Messiah Jesus himself being the cornerstone.
Colossians 2:9
because all the essence of deity inhabits him in bodily form.
Hebrews 12:22
Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, to tens of thousands of angels joyfully gathered together,
Revelation 14:1
Then I looked, and there was the lamb, standing on Mount Zion! With him were 144,000 people who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads.