Verse 4

The tribes go up there, the tribes of the LORD, where it is required that Israel give thanks to the name of the LORD.

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 16:16 : 16 Three times a year all your males must appear before the LORD your God in the place he chooses for the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Shelters; and they must not appear before him empty-handed.
  • Exod 23:17 : 17 At three times in the year all your males will appear before the Sovereign LORD.
  • Exod 26:33-34 : 33 You are to hang this curtain under the clasps and bring the ark of the testimony in there behind the curtain. The curtain will make a division for you between the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place. 34 You are to put the atonement lid on the ark of the testimony in the Most Holy Place.
  • Exod 32:15 : 15 Moses turned and went down from the mountain with the two tablets of the testimony in his hands. The tablets were written on both sides– they were written on the front and on the back.
  • Exod 34:23-24 : 23 At three times in the year all your men must appear before the Sovereign LORD, the God of Israel. 24 For I will drive out the nations before you and enlarge your borders; no one will covet your land when you go up to appear before the LORD your God three times in the year.
  • Deut 12:5 : 5 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.
  • 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.
  • Ps 66:13-16 : 13 I will enter your temple with burnt sacrifices; I will fulfill the vows I made to you, 14 which my lips uttered and my mouth spoke when I was in trouble. 15 I will offer up to you fattened animals as burnt sacrifices, along with the smell of sacrificial rams. I will offer cattle and goats.(Selah) 16 Come! Listen, all you who are loyal to God! I will declare what he has done for me.
  • Ps 78:68 : 68 He chose the tribe of Judah, and Mount Zion, which he loves.
  • Ps 107:1-3 : 1 Book 5(Psalms 107-150) Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, and his loyal love endures! 2 Let those delivered by the LORD speak out, those whom he delivered from the power of the enemy, 3 and gathered from foreign lands, from east and west, from north and south.
  • Ps 116:17-19 : 17 I will present a thank offering to you, and call on the name of the LORD. 18 I will fulfill my vows to the LORD before all his people, 19 in the courts of the LORD’s temple, in your midst, O Jerusalem. Praise the LORD!
  • Ps 118:19 : 19 Open for me the gates of the just king’s temple! I will enter through them and give thanks to the LORD.
  • Ps 132:13 : 13 Certainly the LORD has chosen Zion; he decided to make it his home.
  • Exod 16:34 : 34 Just as the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron placed it before the Testimony for safekeeping.