adSee Deut. 12:5
2 Samuel 7:5-7
5“Go and tell my servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord: aWould you build me a house to dwell in? 6I have not lived in a house bsince the day I brought up the people of Israel from Egypt to this day, but I have been moving about cin a tent for my dwelling. 7In all places where dI have moved with all the people of Israel, did I speak a word with eany of the judges ▼▼Compare 1 Chronicles 17:6; Hebrew tribes
of Israel, whom I commanded gto shepherd my people Israel, saying, “Why have you not built me a house of cedar?”’ Jeremiah 7:4-11
4 hDo not trust in these deceptive words: ‘This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.’5“For if you truly iamend your ways and your deeds, if you truly jexecute justice one with another, 6if you kdo not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, or the widow, lor shed innocent blood in this place, mand if you do not go after other gods to your own harm, 7 nthen I will let you dwell in this place, oin the land that I gave of old to your fathers forever.
8“Behold, you trust in deceptive words to no avail. 9 pWill you steal, murder, commit adultery, qswear falsely, rmake offerings to Baal, sand go after other gods that you have not known, 10and then come and stand before me in this house, twhich is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered!’—only to go on doing all these abominations? 11 uHas this house, vwhich is called by my name, wbecome a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself have seen it, declares the Lord.
Malachi 1:11
11For from the rising of the sun to its setting my name xwill be ▼▼Or is (three times in verse 11; also verse 14)
great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering. For my name zwill be great among the nations, says the Lord of hosts. Matthew 24:2
2But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, aathere will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.”John 4:20-21
20 abOur fathers worshiped on acthis mountain, but you say that adin Jerusalem is aethe place where people ought to worship.” 21Jesus said to her, af“Woman, believe me, agthe hour is coming when ahneither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.Acts 7:48-50
48 aiYet the Most High does not dwell ajin houses made by hands, as the prophet says,49 ak“‘Heaven is my throne,
aland the earth is my footstool.
What kind of house will you build for me, says the Lord,
or what is the place of my rest?
50Did not my hand make all these things?’
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