John 4:20
Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship."
Genesis 12:6-7
Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. The Canaanite was then in the land.
Deuteronomy 11:29
It shall happen, when the LORD your God shall bring you into the land where you go to possess it, that you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim, and the curse on Mount Ebal.
Deuteronomy 27:12
"These shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people, when you have passed over the Jordan: Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin.
Genesis 33:18-20
Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan Aram; and encamped before the city.
Deuteronomy 12:5-11
But to the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, even to his habitation you shall seek, and there you shall come;
Joshua 8:33-35
All Israel, and their elders and officers, and their judges, stood on this side of the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, who carried the ark of the LORD's covenant, the foreigner as well as the native; half of them in front of Mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel.
Judges 9:6-7
And all the lords of Shechem assembled themselves together, and all the house of Millo, and went and made Abimelech king, by the oak of the pillar that was in Shechem.
1 Kings 9:3
The LORD said to him, "I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.
2 Kings 17:26-33
Therefore they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, "The nations which you have carried away, and placed in the cities of Samaria, do not know the law of the god of the land. Therefore he has sent lions among them, and behold, they kill them, because they do not know the law of the god of the land."
1 Chronicles 21:26
David built an altar to the LORD there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called on the LORD; and he answered him from the sky by fire on the altar of burnt offering.
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."
2 Chronicles 6:6
but I chose Jerusalem, that my name may be there; and I chose David to be over my people Israel.'
2 Chronicles 7:12
The LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, "I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for a house of sacrifice.
2 Chronicles 7:16
For now have I chosen and made this house holy, that my name may be there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.
Psalm 78:68
But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.
Psalm 87:1-2
His foundation is in the holy mountains.
Psalm 132:13
For the LORD has chosen Zion; he has desired it for his dwelling.
Luke 9:53
They did not receive him, because he was traveling with his face set towards Jerusalem.