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Deuteronomy 12:11
you must bring everything I command you— your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, your sacred offerings, and your offerings to fulfill a vow— to the designated place of worship, the place the Lord your God chooses for his name to be honored.
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Deuteronomy 26:2
put some of the first produce from each crop you harvest into a basket and bring it to the designated place of worship— the place the Lord your God chooses for his name to be honored.
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Deuteronomy 16:2
Your Passover sacrifice may be from either the flock or the herd, and it must be sacrificed to the Lord your God at the designated place of worship— the place he chooses for his name to be honored.
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2 Chronicles 7 12
Then one night the Lord appeared to Solomon and said,“ I have heard your prayer and have chosen this Temple as the place for making sacrifices.
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1 Kings 8 29
May you watch over this Temple night and day, this place where you have said,‘ My name will be there.’ May you always hear the prayers I make toward this place.
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Isaiah 66:1-2
This is what the Lord says:“ Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Could you build me a temple as good as that? Could you build me such a resting place?My hands have made both heaven and earth; they and everything in them are mine. I, the Lord, have spoken!“ I will bless those who have humble and contrite hearts, who tremble at my word.
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Psalms 132:13-14
For the Lord has chosen Jerusalem; he has desired it for his home.“ This is my resting place forever,” he said.“ I will live here, for this is the home I desired.
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Psalms 78:68
He chose instead the tribe of Judah, and Mount Zion, which he loved.
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Psalms 87:2-3
He loves the city of Jerusalem more than any other city in Israel.O city of God, what glorious things are said of you! Interlude
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1 Kings 8 27
“ But will God really live on earth? Why, even the highest heavens cannot contain you. How much less this Temple I have built!
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Colossians 2:9
For in Christ lives all the fullness of God in a human body.
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1 Kings 8 16
‘ From the day I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I have never chosen a city among any of the tribes of Israel as the place where a Temple should be built to honor my name. But I have chosen David to be king over my people Israel.’”
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1 Kings 8 20
“ And now the Lord has fulfilled the promise he made, for I have become king in my father’s place, and now I sit on the throne of Israel, just as the Lord promised. I have built this Temple to honor the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.
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Ephesians 2:20-22
Together, we are his house, built on the foundation of the apostles and the prophets. And the cornerstone is Christ Jesus himself.We are carefully joined together in him, becoming a holy temple for the Lord.Through him you Gentiles are also being made part of this dwelling where God lives by his Spirit.
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Hebrews 12:22
No, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to countless thousands of angels in a joyful gathering.
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Deuteronomy 12:13
Be careful not to sacrifice your burnt offerings just anywhere you like.
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1 Kings 14 21
Meanwhile, Rehoboam son of Solomon was king in Judah. He was forty one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the Lord had chosen from among all the tribes of Israel as the place to honor his name. Rehoboam’s mother was Naamah, an Ammonite woman.
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John 4:20-22
So tell me, why is it that you Jews insist that Jerusalem is the only place of worship, while we Samaritans claim it is here at Mount Gerizim, where our ancestors worshiped?”Jesus replied,“ Believe me, dear woman, the time is coming when it will no longer matter whether you worship the Father on this mountain or in Jerusalem.You Samaritans know very little about the one you worship, while we Jews know all about him, for salvation comes through the Jews.
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Acts 7:48-50
However, the Most High doesn’t live in temples made by human hands. As the prophet says,‘ Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Could you build me a temple as good as that?’ asks the Lord.‘ Could you build me such a resting place?Didn’t my hands make both heaven and earth?’
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Numbers 7:89
Whenever Moses went into the Tabernacle to speak with the Lord, he heard the voice speaking to him from between the two cherubim above the Ark’s cover— the place of atonement— that rests on the Ark of the Covenant. The Lord spoke to him from there.
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Exodus 15:2
The Lord is my strength and my song; he has given me victory. This is my God, and I will praise him— my father’s God, and I will exalt him!
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1 Chronicles 22 1
Then David said,“ This will be the location for the Temple of the Lord God and the place of the altar for Israel’s burnt offerings!”
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Exodus 25:22
I will meet with you there and talk to you from above the atonement cover between the gold cherubim that hover over the Ark of the Covenant. From there I will give you my commands for the people of Israel.
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Joshua 18:1
Now that the land was under Israelite control, the entire community of Israel gathered at Shiloh and set up the Tabernacle.
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Revelation 14:1
Then I saw the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him were 144,000 who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads.
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Joshua 9:27
But that day he made the Gibeonites the woodcutters and water carriers for the community of Israel and for the altar of the Lord— wherever the Lord would choose to build it. And that is what they do to this day.