Exodus 20:24

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.

In all places

Will bless thee

General references

Psalm 122:2

Bible References

In all places

but unto the place which Jehovah your God will choose out of all your tribes to set his name there, his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come;

And thou shalt eat before Jehovah thy God, in the place which he will choose to cause his name to dwell there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy new wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear Jehovah thy God continually.

Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover in one of thy gates, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee;

that thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which thou shalt bring of thy land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place that Jehovah thy God will choose to cause his name to dwell there;

that thine eyes may be open upon this house night and day, upon the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: to hearken unto the prayer which thy servant prayeth toward this place.

And Jehovah said to him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication which thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.

but I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.

for I have now chosen and hallowed this house, that my name may be there for ever; and mine eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.

And king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned; for Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city that Jehovah had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.

And the God that has caused his name to dwell there overthrow every king and people that shall put forth their hand to alter or to destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem. I Darius have given this order; let it be done diligently.

but if ye return to me, and keep my commandments and do them, though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heavens, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name there.

They have set on fire thy sanctuary, they have profaned the habitation of thy name to the ground.

And in Salem is his tent, and his dwelling-place in Zion.

But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved;

For Jehovah hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his dwelling:

then ye come and stand before me, in this house which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered, in order to do all these abominations!

For from the rising of the sun even unto its setting my name shall be great among the nations; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure oblation: for my name shall be great among the nations, saith Jehovah of hosts.

For where two or three are gathered together unto my name, there am I in the midst of them.

teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have enjoined you. And behold, I am with you all the days, until the completion of the age.

Our fathers worshipped in this mountain, and ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where one must worship.

I will therefore that the men pray in every place, lifting up pious hands, without wrath or reasoning.

Will bless thee

And I will make of thee a great nation, and bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing.

Jehovah bless thee, and keep thee;

and he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee, and will bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, thy corn and thy new wine, and thine oil, the offspring of thy kine, and the increase of thy sheep, in the land which he swore unto thy fathers to give thee.

And it was told king David, saying, Jehovah has blessed the house of Obed-Edom, and all that is his, because of the ark of God. And David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom into the city of David with joy.

Jehovah will bless thee out of Zion; and mayest thou see the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life,

Jehovah, the maker of heavens and earth, bless thee out of Zion.

General references

Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem.