Ezekiel 23:4
Their names were Oholah the elder and Oholibah her sister. They became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah and Jerusalem is Oholibah.
Ezekiel 16:8
Then I passed by you and saw that you were at the time for love. So I spread my skirt over you and covered your nakedness. I also swore to you and entered into a covenant with you so that you became mine, declares the Lord Jehovah.
Exodus 19:5-6
If you will obey me and are faithful to the terms of my covenant, then out of all the nations you will be my own special possession, for all the earth is mine.
1 Kings 8:29
Watch over this Temple day and night. For this is the place where you have chosen to be worshiped. Hear me when I face this Temple and pray.
1 Kings 12:20
When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had come back, they requested a meeting of the people. At that meeting they made him king over Israel. There was none who followed the house of David except the tribe of Judah.
1 Kings 12:26-33
He thought to himself: The way things are my people will go to Jerusalem and offer sacrifices to Jehovah at the Temple there.
Psalm 45:11-16
Then the King will desire your beauty. Bow down to him because he is your Lord.
Psalm 76:2
His tabernacle is in Salem (Jerusalem). His dwelling place also is in Zion.
Psalm 132:13-14
Jehovah has chosen Zion. He wants it for his home.
Jeremiah 2:2-3
Go and announce to Jerusalem, 'This is what Jehovah says: I remember the unfailing loyalty of your youth, the love you had for me as a bride. I remember how you followed me into the desert, into a land that was not sown (farmed).
Ezekiel 16:20
You took your sons and daughters, who belonged to me, and you sacrificed them as food to idols. Was your prostitution not enough?
Ezekiel 16:40
They will incite a crowd against you and they will stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.
John 4:22
You worship what you do not know. We worship what we know. Salvation is from the Jews.
Romans 7:4
Brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ; that you should be joined to another, even to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God.