Deuteronomy 12:5

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But you must seek only the place he chooses from all your tribes to establish his name as his place of residence, and you must go there.

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  • Deut 12:11 : 11 Then you must come to the place the LORD your God chooses for his name to reside, bringing everything I am commanding you– your burnt offerings, sacrifices, tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, and all your choice votive offerings which you devote to him.
  • 2 Chr 7:12 : 12 the LORD appeared to Solomon at night and said to him:“I have answered your prayer and chosen this place to be my temple where sacrifices are to be made.
  • Deut 16:2 : 2 You must sacrifice the Passover animal(from the flock or the herd) to the LORD your God in the place where he chooses to locate his name.
  • Deut 26:2 : 2 you must take the first of all the ground’s produce you harvest from the land the LORD your God is giving you, place it in a basket, and go to the place where he chooses to locate his name.
  • 1 Kgs 8:29 : 29 Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live. May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place.
  • Ps 78:68 : 68 He chose the tribe of Judah, and Mount Zion, which he loves.
  • Josh 18:1 : 1 The Tribes Meet at Shiloh The entire Israelite community assembled at Shiloh and there they set up the tent of meeting. Though they had subdued the land,
  • 1 Kgs 8:16 : 16 He told David,‘Since the day I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from all the tribes of Israel to build a temple in which to live. But I have chosen David to lead my people Israel.’
  • 1 Kgs 8:20 : 20 The LORD has kept the promise he made. I have taken my father David’s place and have occupied the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised. I have built this temple for the honor of the LORD God of Israel
  • 1 Kgs 8:27 : 27 “God does not really live on the earth! Look, if the sky and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this temple I have built!
  • Deut 12:13 : 13 Make sure you do not offer burnt offerings in any place you wish,
  • Exod 15:2 : 2 The LORD is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
  • Exod 25:22 : 22 I will meet with you there, and from above the atonement lid, from between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the testimony, I will speak with you about all that I will command you for the Israelites.
  • Num 7:89 : 89 Now when Moses went into the tent of meeting to speak with the LORD, he heard the voice speaking to him from above the atonement lid that was on the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim. Thus he spoke to him.
  • Ps 87:2-3 : 2 The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwelling places of Jacob. 3 People say wonderful things about you, O city of God.(Selah)
  • Ps 132:13-14 : 13 Certainly the LORD has chosen Zion; he decided to make it his home. 14 He said,“This will be my resting place forever; I will live here, for I have chosen it.
  • Isa 66:1-2 : 1 This is what the LORD says:“The heavens are my throne and the earth is my footstool. Where then is the house you will build for me? Where is the place where I will rest? 2 My hand made them; that is how they came to be,” says the LORD. I show special favor to the humble and contrite, who respect what I have to say.
  • John 4:20-22 : 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you people say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.” 21 Jesus said to her,“Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You people worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews.
  • Acts 7:48-50 : 48 Yet the Most High does not live in houses made by human hands, as the prophet says, 49 ‘Heaven is my throne, and earth is the footstool for my feet. What kind of house will you build for me, says the Lord, or what is my resting place? 50 Did my hand not make all these things?’
  • Eph 2:20-22 : 20 because you have been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone. 21 In him the whole building, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, 22 in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.
  • Col 2:9 : 9 For in him all the fullness of deity lives in bodily form,
  • Heb 12:22 : 22 But you have come to Mount Zion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, to the assembly
  • Rev 14:1 : 1 An Interlude: The Song of the 144,000 Then I looked, and here was the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him were one hundred and forty-four thousand, who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads.
  • 1 Kgs 14:21 : 21 Rehoboam’s Reign over Judah Now Rehoboam son of Solomon ruled in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he became king and he ruled for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD chose from all the tribes of Israel to be his home. His mother was an Ammonite woman named Naamah.
  • 1 Chr 22:1 : 1 David then said,“This is the place where the temple of the LORD God will be, along with the altar for burnt sacrifices for Israel.”
  • Josh 9:27 : 27 and that day made them woodcutters and water carriers for the community and for the altar of the LORD at the divinely chosen site.(They continue in that capacity to this very day.)

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 12:9-14
    6 verses
    88%

    9for you have not yet come to the final stop and inheritance the LORD your God is giving you.

    10When you do go across the Jordan River and settle in the land he is granting you as an inheritance and you find relief from all the enemies who surround you, you will live in safety.

    11Then you must come to the place the LORD your God chooses for his name to reside, bringing everything I am commanding you– your burnt offerings, sacrifices, tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, and all your choice votive offerings which you devote to him.

    12You shall rejoice in the presence of the LORD your God, along with your sons, daughters, male and female servants, and the Levites in your villages(since they have no allotment or inheritance with you).

    13Make sure you do not offer burnt offerings in any place you wish,

    14for you may do so only in the place the LORD chooses in one of your tribal areas– there you may do everything I am commanding you.

  • Deut 12:6-7
    2 verses
    82%

    6And there you must take your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, your votive offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.

    7Both you and your families must feast there before the LORD your God and rejoice in all the output of your labor with which he has blessed you.

  • Deut 12:26
    80%

    26Only the holy things and votive offerings that belong to you, you must pick up and take to the place the LORD will choose.

  • Deut 18:5-6
    2 verses
    77%

    5For the LORD your God has chosen them and their sons from all your tribes to stand and serve in his name permanently.

    6Suppose a Levite comes by his own free will from one of your villages, from any part of Israel where he is living, to the place the LORD chooses

  • Deut 14:23-25
    3 verses
    77%

    23In the presence of the LORD your God you must eat from the tithe of your grain, your new wine, your olive oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks in the place he chooses to locate his name, so that you may learn to revere the LORD your God always.

    24When he blesses you, if the place where he chooses to locate his name is distant,

    25you may convert the tithe into money, secure the money, and travel to the place the LORD your God chooses for himself.

  • Deut 16:2
    77%

    2You must sacrifice the Passover animal(from the flock or the herd) to the LORD your God in the place where he chooses to locate his name.

  • Deut 12:4
    76%

    4You must not worship the LORD your God the way they worship.

  • Deut 26:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

    1Presentation of the First Fruits When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you occupy it and live in it,

    2you must take the first of all the ground’s produce you harvest from the land the LORD your God is giving you, place it in a basket, and go to the place where he chooses to locate his name.

  • Deut 16:6-7
    2 verses
    75%

    6but you must sacrifice it in the evening in the place where he chooses to locate his name, at sunset, the time of day you came out of Egypt.

    7You must cook and eat it in the place the LORD your God chooses; you may return the next morning to your tents.

  • Neh 1:9
    74%

    9But if you repent and obey my commandments and do them, then even if your dispersed people are in the most remote location, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen for my name to reside.’

  • 2 Chr 6:5
    74%

    5He told David,‘Since the day I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from all the tribes of Israel to build a temple in which to live. Nor did I choose a man as leader of my people Israel.

  • Deut 15:20
    73%

    20You and your household must eat them annually before the LORD your God in the place he chooses.

  • Deut 17:10
    73%

    10You must then do as they have determined at that place the LORD chooses. Be careful to do just as you are taught.

  • Exod 20:24
    73%

    24‘You must make for me an altar made of earth, and you will sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I cause my name to be honored I will come to you and I will bless you.

  • Deut 12:21
    72%

    21If the place he chooses to locate his name is too far for you, you may slaughter any of your herd and flock he has given you just as I have stipulated; you may eat them in your villages just as you wish.

  • Deut 31:11
    72%

    11when all Israel comes to appear before the LORD your God in the place he chooses, you must read this law before them within their hearing.

  • 1 Kgs 8:44
    72%

    44“When you direct your people to march out and fight their enemies, and they direct their prayers to the LORD toward his chosen city and this temple I built for your honor,

  • 2 Chr 7:16
    71%

    16Now I have chosen and consecrated this temple by making it my permanent home; I will be constantly present there.

  • Num 15:2
    71%

    2“Speak to the Israelites and tell them,‘When you enter the land where you are to live, which I am giving you,

  • Deut 12:18
    71%

    18Only in the presence of the LORD your God may you eat these, in the place he chooses. This applies to you, your son, your daughter, your male and female servants, and the Levites in your villages. In that place you will rejoice before the LORD your God in all the output of your labor.

  • 1 Chr 22:19
    71%

    19Now seek the LORD your God wholeheartedly and with your entire being! Get up and build the sanctuary of the LORD God! Then you can bring the ark of the LORD’s covenant and the holy items dedicated to God’s service into the temple that is built to honor the LORD.”

  • Jer 7:12
    71%

    12So, go to the place in Shiloh where I allowed myself to be worshiped in the early days. See what I did to it because of the wicked things my people Israel did.

  • Exod 15:17
    71%

    17You will bring them in and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance, in the place you made for your residence, O LORD, the sanctuary, O Lord, that your hands have established.

  • Exod 12:25
    71%

    25When you enter the land that the LORD will give to you, just as he said, you must observe this ceremony.

  • 2 Chr 20:8
    71%

    8They settled down in it and built in it a temple to honor you, saying,

  • Deut 17:8
    71%

    8Appeal to a Higher Court If a matter is too difficult for you to judge– bloodshed, legal claim, or assault– matters of controversy in your villages– you must leave there and go up to the place the LORD your God chooses.

  • 1 Chr 15:12
    71%

    12He told them:“You are the leaders of the Levites’ families. You and your relatives must consecrate yourselves and bring the ark of the LORD God of Israel up to the place I have prepared for it.

  • 2 Chr 11:16
    71%

    16Those among all the Israelite tribes who were determined to worship the LORD God of Israel followed them to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the LORD God of their ancestors.

  • Deut 16:11
    71%

    11You shall rejoice before him– you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the Levites in your villages, the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows among you– in the place where the LORD chooses to locate his name.

  • 2 Chr 6:34
    71%

    34“When you direct your people to march out and fight their enemies, and they direct their prayers to you toward this chosen city and this temple I built for your honor,

  • Ps 132:13
    71%

    13Certainly the LORD has chosen Zion; he decided to make it his home.

  • 2 Chr 7:12
    70%

    12the LORD appeared to Solomon at night and said to him:“I have answered your prayer and chosen this place to be my temple where sacrifices are to be made.

  • Deut 7:6
    70%

    6For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. He has chosen you to be his people, prized above all others on the face of the earth.

  • Deut 14:2
    70%

    2For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. He has chosen you to be his people, prized above all others on the face of the earth.

  • Josh 22:19
    70%

    19But if your own land is impure, cross over to the LORD’s own land, where the LORD himself lives, and settle down among us. But don’t rebel against the LORD or us by building for yourselves an altar aside from the altar of the LORD our God.

  • 2 Chr 35:5
    70%

    5Stand in the sanctuary and, together with the Levites, represent the family divisions of your countrymen.

  • Deut 6:10
    70%

    10Exhortation to Worship the Lord Exclusively Then when the LORD your God brings you to the land he promised your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to give you– a land with large, fine cities you did not build,

  • Exod 13:11
    70%

    11When the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, as he swore to you and to your fathers, and gives it to you,

  • Deut 16:15
    70%

    15You are to celebrate the festival seven days before the LORD your God in the place he chooses, for he will bless you in all your productivity and in whatever you do; so you will indeed rejoice!