Deuteronomy 12:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But let your hearts be turned to the place which will be marked out by the Lord your God, among your tribes, to put his name there;

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  • Deut 12:11 : 11 Then there will be a place marked out by the Lord your God as the resting-place for his name, and there you will take all the things which I give you orders to take: your burned offerings and other offerings, and the tenth part of your goods, and the offerings to be lifted up, and the offerings of your oaths which you make to the Lord;
  • 2 Chr 7:12 : 12 Now the Lord came to Solomon in a vision by night, and said to him, I have given ear to your prayer, and have taken this place for myself as a house where offerings are to be made.
  • Deut 16:2 : 2 The Passover offering, from your flock or your herd, is to be given to the Lord your God in the place marked out by him as the resting-place of his name.
  • Deut 26:2 : 2 You are to take a part of the first-fruits of the earth, which you get from the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and put it in a basket, and go to the place marked out by the Lord your God, as the resting-place of his name.
  • 1 Kgs 8:29 : 29 That your eyes may be open to this house night and day, to this place of which you have said, My name will be there; hearing the prayer which your servant may make, turning to this place.
  • Ps 78:68 : 68 But he took the tribe of Judah for himself, and the mountain of Zion, in which he had pleasure.
  • Josh 18:1 : 1 And all the meeting of the children of Israel came together at Shiloh and put up the Tent of meeting there: and the land was crushed before them.
  • 1 Kgs 8:16 : 16 From the day when I took my people Israel out of Egypt, no town in all the tribes of Israel has been marked out by me for the building of a house for the resting-place of my name; but I made selection of David to be king over my people Israel.
  • 1 Kgs 8:20 : 20 And the Lord has made his word come true; for I have taken my father David's place on the seat of the kingdom of Israel, as the Lord gave his word; and I have made a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.
  • 1 Kgs 8:27 : 27 But is it truly possible that God may be housed on earth? see, heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be your resting-place; how much less this house which I have made!
  • Deut 12:13 : 13 Take care that you do not make your burned offerings in any place you see:
  • Exod 15:2 : 2 The Lord is my strength and my strong helper, he has become my salvation: he is my God and I will give him praise; my father's God and I will give him glory.
  • Exod 25:22 : 22 And there, between the two winged ones on the cover of the ark, I will come to you, face to face, and make clear to you all the orders I have to give you for the children of Israel.
  • Num 7:89 : 89 And when Moses went into the Tent of meeting to have talk with him, then the Voice came to his ears from over the cover which was on the ark of witness, from between the two winged ones. And he had talk with him.
  • Ps 87:2-3 : 2 The Lord has more love for the doors of Zion than for all the tents of Jacob. 3 Noble things are said of you, O town of God. (Selah.)
  • Ps 132:13-14 : 13 For the Lord's heart is on Zion, desiring it for his resting-place. 14 This is my rest for ever: here will I ever be; for this is my desire.
  • Isa 66:1-2 : 1 The Lord says, Heaven is the seat of my power, and earth is the resting-place for my feet: what sort of house will you make for me, and what place will be my resting-place? 2 For all these things my hand has made, and they are mine, says the Lord; but to this man only will I give attention, to him who is poor and broken in spirit, fearing my word.
  • John 4:20-22 : 20 Our fathers gave worship on this mountain, but you Jews say that the right place for worship is in Jerusalem. 21 Jesus said to her, Woman, take my word for this; the time is coming when you will not give worship to the Father on this mountain or in Jerusalem. 22 You give worship, but without knowledge of what you are worshipping: we give worship to what we have knowledge of: for salvation comes from the Jews.
  • Acts 7:48-50 : 48 But still, the Most High has not his resting-place in houses made with hands, as the prophet says, 49 Heaven is the seat of my power, and earth is a resting-place for my feet: what sort of house will you make for me, says the Lord, or what is my place of rest? 50 Did not my hand make all these things?
  • Eph 2:20-22 : 20 Resting on the base of the Apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief keystone, 21 In whom all the building, rightly joined together, comes to be a holy house of God in the Lord; 22 In whom you, with the rest, are united together as a living-place of God in the Spirit.
  • Col 2:9 : 9 For in him all the wealth of God's being has a living form,
  • Heb 12:22 : 22 But you have come to the mountain of Zion, to the place of the living God, to the Jerusalem which is in heaven, and to an army of angels which may not be numbered,
  • Rev 14:1 : 1 And I saw the Lamb on the mountain of Zion, and with him a hundred and forty-four thousand, marked on their brows with his name and the name of his Father.
  • 1 Kgs 14:21 : 21 And Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, was king in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he was king for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the town which the Lord had made his out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there; his mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonite woman.
  • 1 Chr 22:1 : 1 Then David said, This is the house of the Lord God, and this is the altar for Israel's burned offerings.
  • Josh 9:27 : 27 And that day Joshua made them servants, cutting wood and getting water for the people and for the altar of the Lord, in the place marked out by him, to this day.

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  • Deut 12:9-14
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    88%

    9 For you have not come to the rest and the heritage which the Lord your God is giving you.

    10 But when you have gone over Jordan and are living in the land which the Lord your God is giving you as your heritage, and when he has given you rest from all those on every side who are fighting against you, and you are living there safely;

    11 Then there will be a place marked out by the Lord your God as the resting-place for his name, and there you will take all the things which I give you orders to take: your burned offerings and other offerings, and the tenth part of your goods, and the offerings to be lifted up, and the offerings of your oaths which you make to the Lord;

    12 And you will be glad before the Lord your God, you and your sons and your daughters, and your men-servants and your women-servants, and the Levite who is with you in your house, because he has no part or heritage among you.

    13 Take care that you do not make your burned offerings in any place you see:

    14 But in the place marked out by the Lord in one of your tribes, there let your burned offerings be offered, and there do what I have given you orders to do.

  • Deut 12:6-7
    2 verses
    82%

    6 And there you are to take your burned offerings and other offerings, and the tenth part of your goods, and the offerings to be lifted up to the Lord, and the offerings of your oaths, and those which you give freely from the impulse of your hearts, and the first births among your herds and your flocks;

    7 There you and all your families are to make a feast before the Lord your God, with joy in everything to which you put your hand, because the Lord has given you his blessing.

  • Deut 12:26
    80%

    26 But the holy things which you have, and the offerings of your oaths, you are to take to the place which will be marked out by the Lord:

  • Deut 18:5-6
    2 verses
    77%

    5 For he, and his sons after him for ever, have been marked out by the Lord your God from all your tribes, to do the work of priests in the name of the Lord.

    6 And if a Levite, moved by a strong desire, comes from any town in all Israel where he is living to the place marked out by the Lord;

  • Deut 14:23-25
    3 verses
    77%

    23 And make a feast before the Lord your God, in the place which is to be marked out, where his name will be for ever, of the tenth part of your grain and your wine and your oil, and the first births of your herds and your flocks; so that you may have the fear of the Lord your God in your hearts at all times.

    24 And if the way is so long that you are not able to take these things to the place marked out by the Lord your God for his name, when he has given you his blessing, because it is far away from you;

    25 Then let these things be exchanged for money, and, taking the money in your hand, go to the place marked out by the Lord your God for himself;

  • Deut 16:2
    77%

    2 The Passover offering, from your flock or your herd, is to be given to the Lord your God in the place marked out by him as the resting-place of his name.

  • Deut 12:4
    76%

    4 Do not so to the Lord your God.

  • Deut 26:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

    1 Now when you have come into the land which the Lord is giving you for your heritage, and you have made it yours and are living in it;

    2 You are to take a part of the first-fruits of the earth, which you get from the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and put it in a basket, and go to the place marked out by the Lord your God, as the resting-place of his name.

  • Deut 16:6-7
    2 verses
    75%

    6 But in the place marked out by the Lord your God as the resting-place of his name, there you are to put the Passover to death in the evening, at sundown, at that time of the year when you came out of Egypt.

    7 It is to be cooked and taken as food in the place marked out by the Lord: and in the morning you are to go back to your tents.

  • Neh 1:9
    74%

    9 But if you come back to me and keep my orders and do them, even if those of you who have been forced out are living in the farthest parts of heaven, I will get them from there, and take them back to the place marked out by me for the resting-place of my name.

  • 2 Chr 6:5
    74%

    5 From the day when I took my people out of the land of Egypt, no town in all the tribes of Israel has been marked out by me for the building of a house for the resting-place of my name; and I took no man to be a ruler over my people Israel;

  • Deut 15:20
    73%

    20 But year by year you and all your house are to take a meal of it before the Lord, in the place of his selection.

  • Deut 17:10
    73%

    10 And you are to be guided by the decision they give in the place named by the Lord, and do whatever they say:

  • Exod 20:24
    73%

    24 Make for me an altar of earth, offering on it your burned offerings and your peace-offerings, your sheep and your oxen: in every place where I have put the memory of my name, I will come to you and give you my blessing.

  • Deut 12:21
    72%

    21 If the place marked out by the Lord your God as the resting-place for his name is far away from you, then take from your herds and from your flocks which the Lord has given you, as I have said, and have a meal of it in the towns where you may be living.

  • Deut 31:11
    72%

    11 When all Israel has come before the Lord your God in the place named by him, let a reading be given of this law in the hearing of all Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 8:44
    72%

    44 If your people go out to war against their attackers, by whatever way you may send them, if they make their prayer to the Lord, turning their faces to this town of yours and to this house which I have made for your name:

  • 2 Chr 7:16
    71%

    16 For I have taken this house for myself and made it holy, so that my name may be there for ever; and my eyes and my heart will be there at all times.

  • Num 15:2
    71%

    2 Say to the children of Israel, When you have come into the land which I am giving to you for your resting-place,

  • Deut 12:18
    71%

    18 But they will be your food before the Lord your God in the place of his selection, where you may make a feast of them, with your son and your daughter, and your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite who is living with you: and you will have joy before the Lord your God in everything to which you put your hand.

  • 1 Chr 22:19
    71%

    19 Now give your heart and soul to the worship of the Lord your God; and get to work on the building of the holy place of the Lord God, so that you may put the ark of the Lord's agreement and the holy vessels of God in the house which is to be made for the name of the Lord.

  • Jer 7:12
    71%

    12 But go now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I put my name at first, and see what I did to it because of the evil-doing of my people Israel.

  • Exod 15:17
    71%

    17 You will take them in, planting them in the mountain of your heritage, the place, O Lord, where you have made your house, the holy place, O Lord, the building of your hands.

  • Exod 12:25
    71%

    25 And when you come into the land which the Lord will make yours, as he gave his word, you are to keep this act of worship.

  • 2 Chr 20:8
    71%

    8 And they made it their living-place, building there a holy house for your name, and saying,

  • Deut 17:8
    71%

    8 If you are not able to give a decision as to who is responsible for a death, or who is right in a cause, or who gave the first blow in a fight, and there is a division of opinion about it in your town: then go to the place marked out by the Lord your God;

  • 1 Chr 15:12
    71%

    12 And said to them, You are the heads of the families of the Levites: make yourselves holy, you and your brothers, so that you may take the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel, to the place which I have made ready for it.

  • 2 Chr 11:16
    71%

    16 And after them, from all the tribes of Israel, all those whose hearts were fixed and true to the Lord, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to make offerings to the Lord, the God of their fathers.

  • Deut 16:11
    71%

    11 Then you are to be glad before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter, your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite who is with you, and the man from a strange country, and the child without a father, and the widow, who are living among you, in the place marked out by the Lord your God as a resting-place for his name.

  • 2 Chr 6:34
    71%

    34 If your people go out to war against their attackers, by whatever way you may send them, if they make their prayers to you turning their faces to this town of yours and to this house which I have put up for your name:

  • Ps 132:13
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    13 For the Lord's heart is on Zion, desiring it for his resting-place.

  • 2 Chr 7:12
    70%

    12 Now the Lord came to Solomon in a vision by night, and said to him, I have given ear to your prayer, and have taken this place for myself as a house where offerings are to be made.

  • Deut 7:6
    70%

    6 For you are a holy people to the Lord your God: marked out by the Lord your God to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth.

  • Deut 14:2
    70%

    2 For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has taken you to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth.

  • Josh 22:19
    70%

    19 But if the land you now have is unclean, come over into the Lord's land where his House is, and take up your heritage among us: but do not be false to the Lord and to us by building yourselves an altar in addition to the altar of the Lord our God.

  • 2 Chr 35:5
    70%

    5 And take your positions in the holy place, grouped in the families of your brothers, the children of the people, and for every division let there be a part of a family of the Levites.

  • Deut 6:10
    70%

    10 And when the Lord your God has taken you into the land which he gave his oath to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, that he would give you; with great and fair towns which were not of your building;

  • Exod 13:11
    70%

    11 And when the Lord takes you into the land of Canaan, as he made his oath to you and to your fathers, and gives it to you,

  • Deut 16:15
    70%

    15 Keep the feast to the Lord your God for seven days, in the place marked out by the Lord: because the blessing of the Lord your God will be on all the produce of your land and all the work of your hands, and you will have nothing but joy.