Deuteronomy 12:5

Detailed Stipulations: Purity And Unity

⁴ Don’t worship the Lord your God this way. ⁵ Instead, you must turn to the place Yahweh your God chooses from all your tribes to put His name for His dwelling and go there. ⁶ You are to bring there your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tenths and personal contributions, your vow offerings and freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.

Seek the Lord

Jehovah

2 Chronicles 7:12

Then the Lord appeared to Solomon at night and said to him:

I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for Myself as a temple of sacrifice.

Deuteronomy 12:11

then Yahweh your God will choose the place to have His name dwell. Bring there everything I command you: your burnt offerings, sacrifices, offerings of the tenth, personal contributions, and all your choice offerings you vow to the Lord.

Deuteronomy 16:2

Sacrifice to Yahweh your God a Passover animal from the herd or flock in the place where the Lord chooses to have His name dwell.

Deuteronomy 26:2

you must take some of the first of all the land’s produce that you harvest from the land Yahweh your God is giving you and put it in a container. Then go to the place where the Lord your God chooses to have His name dwell.

Joshua 18:1

The entire Israelite community assembled at Shiloh where it set up the tent of meeting there; the land had been subdued by them.

1 Kings 8:29

so that Your eyes may watch over this temple night and day,
toward the place where You said:
My name will be there,
and so that You may hear the prayer
that Your servant prays toward this place.

Psalm 78:68

He chose instead the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion, which He loved.

Exodus 15:2

The Lord is my strength and my song;
He has become my salvation.
This is my God, and I will praise Him,
my father’s God, and I will exalt Him.

Exodus 25:22

I will meet with you there above the mercy seat, between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the testimony; I will speak with you from there about all that I command you regarding the Israelites.

Numbers 7:89

When Moses entered the tent of meeting to speak with the Lord, he heard the voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim. He spoke to him that way.

Deuteronomy 12:13

Be careful not to offer your burnt offerings in all the sacred places you see.

Joshua 9:27

On that day he made them woodcutters and water carriers—as they are today—for the community and for the Lord’s altar at the place He would choose.

1 Kings 8:16

“Since the day I brought My people Israel out of Egypt,
I have not chosen a city to build a temple in
among any of the tribes of Israel,
so that My name would be there.
But I have chosen David to rule My people Israel.”

1 Kings 8:20

The Lord has fulfilled what He promised.
I have taken the place of my father David,
and I sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised.
I have built the temple for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

1 Kings 8:27

But will God indeed live on earth?
Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain You,
much less this temple I have built.

1 Kings 14:21

Now Rehoboam, Solomon’s son, reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was 41 years old when he became king; he reigned 17 years in Jerusalem, the city where Yahweh had chosen from all the tribes of Israel to put His name. Rehoboam’s mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.

1 Chronicles 22:1

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

Psalm 87:2-3

The Lord loves the gates of Zion
more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

Psalm 132:13-14

For the Lord has chosen Zion;
He has desired it for His home:

Isaiah 66:1-2

This is what the Lord says:

Heaven is My throne,
and earth is My footstool.
What house could you possibly build for Me?
And what place could be My home?

John 4:20-22

Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, yet you Jews say that the place to worship is in Jerusalem.”

Acts 7:48-50

However, the Most High does not dwell in sanctuaries made with hands, as the prophet says:

Ephesians 2:20-22

built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone.

Colossians 2:9

For the entire fullness of God’s nature dwells bodily in Christ,

Hebrews 12:22

Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God (the heavenly Jerusalem), to myriads of angels in festive gathering,

Revelation 14:1

Then I looked, and there on Mount Zion stood the Lamb, and with Him were 144,000 who had His name and His Father’s name written on their foreheads.